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] Date Posted: 17:03:34 12/17/04 Fri Sydney, Australia now has a majority of people from non-UK origins apparently. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| [> Subject: Really? | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:43:09 12/17/04 Fri I'm not sure where you got your data from or how "non-UK origin" is being defined. There are large numbers of Kiwis in Sydney, for example, and many of them would be defined as being of "UK-origin" in New Zealand, but perhaps of "non-UK origin" in Australia, depending on the ideological bent of the person inventing the statistical categories. Whatever. Whether it is true or not, this tendency conveniently proves one of our points: the British institutions and values that connect Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada have helped to create countries that are overwhelmingly attractive to migrants. Given the importance of this cultural (not racial, not ethnic) core, it would be a good idea if we could work more closely together to build on the things which set us apart from most other countries on the planet. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: So does Leicester and much of London... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:47:37 12/17/04 Fri ... but it doesn't make those places any less British. Ian is right: the important things here are the cultural and political traditions which can accomodate anyone, from whatever ethnic or racial background. Our identity is already not based on 'race' - why not take it a step further and stop basing it on geography? Roll on the Federation. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Exactly... | |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 11:47:09 12/18/04 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: London isn't British at all. It could be anywhere. It's a faceless dump nt | |
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Author: Ken Deadrock [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:52:27 12/18/04 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Too true... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:47:59 12/18/04 Sat ... unless, of course, one takes the precaution of not being a penniless hippie living in a squat in Stoke Newington. Then it's quite nice. As for not being British, I defy you to produce a foreigner whose images of Britain are not all London images: Routemasters, Buck House, Westminster, all the rest of it. Uninformed as this may be, and as much as your images of Britain may be noble Highland Cattle lowering their heads to the loch beyint the glen, or cricket on the lawn near a gothic pub in Surrey, or whatever, to 99% of the world's population, it's London. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: That's why... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:49:25 12/18/04 Sat ... I think that the FC capital should under no circumstances be London. No one outside Britain is going to swallow a proposal which places their new capital in a city which is so country-specific as London. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: London | |
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Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:04:41 12/20/04 Mon London is a unique place. It's different from the rest of Britain and also from anywhere else on earth. It's instantly recognisable and iconic. It's stupid to say it 'could be anywhere' just because it's multi-ethinic and international. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Even replying to this moron who types "nt" at the end of the message line is probably an overreaction | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:38:46 12/20/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: What the hell?! | |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:27:56 12/19/04 Sun London is a great city! What on earth are you on about? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: I was very impressed with London last time I visited in 2002 | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 02:34:05 12/20/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: London is one of a handful of great world cities - I think only on a par with New York. But it looks a lot better if you have money. So what? So do most great international centres. | |
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Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:55:09 12/20/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |