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Immigration has also provided a wealth of people eager to do those jobs at the lower end of the spectrum which many people already in the country are too lazy, ill-disciplined or ill-trained to do themselves.
But the mass immigration that has been taking place in Britain over the past decade has dramatically changed the cultural make-up of this country. If immigration occurs gradually — as it did in Britain on and off for centuries — then immigrant communities feel the need to integrate. Over time they become essential, indeed defining, parts of the life of the country.
But immigration on the scale revealed in the new census is a recipe not for integration, but fracture. It spells the end of our unified national way of life.
With immigration continuing at this rate, the British way of life becomes simply one option in a set of lifestyle choices — something you might adopt if you care to, but only in the way you might take up yoga or swimming.
For countries to cohere and for people to feel any common bond or purpose, it is vital to have common points of cultural and historical reference
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But the mass immigration that has been taking place in Britain over the past decade has dramatically changed the cultural make-up of this country. If immigration occurs gradually — as it did in Britain on and off for centuries — then immigrant communities feel the need to integrate. Over time they become essential, indeed defining, parts of the life of the country.
But immigration on the scale revealed in the new census is a recipe not for integration, but fracture. It spells the end of our unified national way of life.
With immigration continuing at this rate, the British way of life becomes simply one option in a set of lifestyle choices — something you might adopt if you care to, but only in the way you might take up yoga or swimming.
For countries to cohere and for people to feel any common bond or purpose, it is vital to have common points of cultural and historical reference
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...e-benefits-scale-cope-with.html#ixzz2EpRK7CES
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