Britain is losing its traditional cultural identity, and with that loss goes a loss of authority over many cultural values. If the Muslim population becomes a majority in Britain’s towns and cities, then traditional British culture will very likely have to change.
There has always been an air of political unreality in debates about cultural assimilation and diversity in heavily immigrant Britain. Debates on contentious issues always assumed that large scale demographic changes could be ignored and that everyone, immigrant and native, would somehow come happily together in a liberal, secular common culture.
This has not happened, and with birth-rate differentials and continuing immigration, it is hard to see it ever happening. [The Commentator] Read more
