To:    Everyone
Re:    "New Britishness" and the inferiority complex of many blacks and Muslims in western societies
Date:  Saturday 7 October 06

In respect to Britain's ethnic and religious minorities, it seems to me that there are particular problems with some (not all) blacks and Muslims because of their own - rarely admitted, but not entirely unjustified - sense of inferiority. Both groups are here to take advantage of an advanced level of civilisation that has not been attained (and doesn't look much like being attained in the foreseeable future) in their countries of origin, or anywhere else by people of their own race, culture or religion.
 
Unfortunately, one cannot express such an opinion in public without being accused of "racism", which effectively prevents all discussion and even private consideration, of this problem. I could be mistaken, of course, although I don't think so, but until we are permitted to discuss it, we will never know.
 
I'm not suggesting that individual blacks and Muslims are inferior (that would be racism) - far from it (there are many, I know, who are a lot brighter than I am), but am referring to them as ethnic and religious groups. I've tried putting myself in their position and imagining how "I" would feel. I would FEEL inferior, I'm pretty sure of it. I wouldn't BE inferior, of course, any more than they are, but I would FEEL it. And this, I believe, goes a long way to explaining many of the undeniable problems there are for and with blacks and Muslims in western societies.
 
It is a very sensitive topic, I appreciate, and has to be dealt with sensitively, but continuing to suppress all discussion of it as "racist" is not going to help the situation, but allow it fester and become even worse.
 
One solution, which some people seem to have in mind (especially amongst leftwing liberal intellectuals), is the complete assimilation of immigrants and natives in the "melting pot" of racial and cultural homogeneity to create a "New Britishness". To them it is just a matter of keeping a lid on all the objections (from natives by decrying them as "racist" and from immigrants by insisting on their "integration", i.e. assimilation into (New) British society) until sufficient homogenization has taken place. But I think - and hope (not least, because of my love of diversity as opposed to homogeneity) - that the lid will come flying off long before they are successful. It is loosening already and this short essay, I hope, will help to loosen it a little more.

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