How does diversity benefit a 1st world society?

There are no patently "British" values, rather a culture and a history. Britain is still a Christian country whether you like it or not; it self identifies as such. In this way, we celebrate Christian holidays, our judicial system is based off of Christian heritage, our flag is based off of patron saints, ordained by the Church.

There are no patently "British" values, rather a culture and a history. Britain is still a Christian country whether you like it or not; it self identifies as such. In this way, we celebrate Christian holidays, our judicial system is based off of Christian heritage, our flag is based off of patron saints, ordained by the Church.

Why can't I bring up Sharia Law? That's a perfectly valid example of something some immigrants want that goes against western values.

Well then I am here to tell you that I am impartial; now you know.

I don't care about immigration; did you not read my previous answers to your comments? It's even in the title of the thread. What are the benefits of diversity in a 1st world country?

It's still evidence for diversity not being a positive thing. 40% of British Muslims is a high number of citizens in our own country who would like courts run by religious figures instead of judges. You can't just brush that off, it's a really disturbing statistic.

smh.... I'm not religious, but are you saying people who come here should become Christians? Are you saying they should give up their own culture to be able to stay here? I'm unsure what you are trying to state.
So people throw around the term 'British values', now you're saying its actually culture and history... OK so what is the culture and history of Britain? Please explain

Isn't is self explanatory? Are you blanketing all immigrants as being followers of sharia law? How immature. Western values? what values do you speak about? Im from the west too hombre and the values are predominately based on skin colour. Im not trying to say which one is better, but you talk as if the west is full of peaches and cream.

It is a frightening statistic, and we can be rightly afraid of radical Islam, but that is no reason to fear diversity itself.

I don't think colonialism is a valid arguing point in the case of immigration and diversity. The colonial policy of the 1600-1900s was made by the elite, why should the common folk of today have to deal with the mistake of the aristocracy 200 years ago?

And believe me, as someone in London, do understand that there are just as many immigrants who don't mingle with "natives" as there are natives who don't mingle with immigrants. It isn't a one-way street.

Considering that pushes for more diversity are to blame for the rise of Islam, and thereby radical Islam, in Britain, I think the benefits of diversity should be called into question.

Okay.

The two go hand-in-hand. How can you expect immigration without diversity, or diversity without immigration?

Because you are trying to focus on the economic effect that immigration has on this country rather than the societal one. 90% of this country are white Christians or Atheists who all celebrate Christmas and Easter. They drink alcohol, play football, speak the same first language and feel like culturally they are on the same wavelength. Diversity disrupts the commonality that these people share and is a detriment to native communities. Challenge that statement with a reasonable argument.

So I presume that since.. it stop(laughable) 200 years ago.. then the problem just went away? Are you that naive? The systematic demoralization of non ethnic white individuals in this country is down right horrible.
Do you think the masses that come to the uk come thinking they are going to be mean and disgusting to the 'natives' here?

I was grown to be very welcoming when people come to my home. Do you think, the UK people has been welcoming to immigrants? This is just ignorance at its best

Note that I said, some immigrants, as in, not all immigrants. Don't try and debase my argument by putting words in my mouth. Also can you give me an example of a modern western value that's based on skin colour? I'm genuinely curious as to what you're talking about.

As a Canadian immigrant, I really haven't brought much in the way of diversity to the country, I'm a white male who speaks english as his first language. Any diversity that I brought to my sixth form was pretty much just novelty because I had an uncommon accent. But I side with OP in that I don't understand the benefit of diversity, as it is very much a dual-edged sword. For every level headed immigrant who wants to become "British" and do his bit whilst enjoying the country, you'll also get an immigrant who holds anti-western beliefs and wants nothing to do with "British" culture. If I were somehow the despot of Britain, I'd close the borders for a couple years before reopening them with a system that allows skilled migrants, and not Joe Blow from God-Knows-Where.

It's my belief that an immigrant should benefit the country, not the other way around. In the words of JFK, immigrants who want to be truly British should "not ask what your country can do for you, [but instead] ask what you can do for your country".

As a side note, why does no one push for non-white nations to be diverse? Japan for instance is a first world nation that is almost entirely homogeneous, I think it's Prime Minister even said something like "We're a one race country".

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How immature, you offer no argument whatsoever.

All immigrant should return to their country of ethnicity! End of!

Spot on. The elephant in the room of course is that those people ferociously pushing further diversity and mass immigration, implicitly and often explicitly, have a deep rooted dislike of all that is traditional. Orwell wrote about this kind of pathological self-hatred amongst leftists as far back as the 1940s. You really do see it all the time, it is sheer Oikophobia. But once you get it into your head that there is something dreadfully immoral and even evil with traditional Western societies, you will not particularly care for rational arguments to the contrary any more than a raging Xenophobe can be convinced with rationality.

And then of course your brain starts working in very muddled up ways. When African migrants die trying to cross the Med, it is Europeans to blame. When muslim fanatics behead a soldier in London, well the real anger is of European Islamaphobia and so on and so on. The mindset is simply one that sees non-Europeans as always and everywhere the victims.

The vast majority of the people have no such beliefs either way, but the small minority which control the cultural and media apparatus, of course also backed by Big Business who profit from mass immigration, have been self ordained as the high priests of diversity I guess and are rather effective at getting the masses to conform to huge social changes they really dont want.

So it's either you're with them or you're against them right? Pure garbage.

Typical shoe box mentality.