Posted: Feb 28, 2017 12:10 am
Keep It Real wrote:Thommo wrote:Do you think white British people integrate well into communities outside the UK? Or do they form ex-pat community networks and associate with their own kind?
I think we usually don't integrate well either, like in the "british" parts of sunny spain. We probably integrate better in the usa and australia, sharing race, language, religion and culture with the majority.
And right there, without bigotry or racism, is the answer.
People tend to cluster alongside others who share similar cultures - cultural norms, common languages, common religions.
Race is frequently used by the ignorant as a substitute marker for culture, but it is distinct from it.
Instead of leaping to assumptions that race was the driving factor behind your personal observations, you should have started by asking yourself what all the possible factors were, then eliminating those not operant for the situation and seeing what was the most generalized at play.