Why do immigrants regard England as a state rather than as an inheritance?

Why's it bogus? Non-white British citizens are still 'British' for all intents and purposes.
You can't, however, make an asian person ethnically British.

There's no such thing as an ethnically British person any more than an ethnically American person. It's a legal contruct,

So to be British and English is to be white ethnically. What is meant by white ethnically because if it means from Anglo Saxons that would make many white people who consider themselves English to be to her e.g
French or german

Well a British person will be a white person with British heritage reaching back prior to mass globalisation. Not all British people will necessarily be citizens.

A British citizen is someone who has (and utilises) a right to live and/or work here.

actually its a social construct based around various things like language, culture, physical appearance, religion, dialect, dress, mythology, ancestry, historial heritage...

All of which over thousasa of years has been altered and influenced by immigration waves.

Well a British person will be a white person with British heritage reaching back prior to mass globalisation. Not all British people will necessarily be citizens.

A British citizen is someone who has (and utilises) a right to live and/or work here.

How do you define 'British heritage'? At what point in history would they have immigrant blood that would disqualify them from being 'ethnically' British?

Which is why we have English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish all as different British ethnic groups

Well when Britain was formed as a union it was between England and Scotland joining together, the native people in these countries were both white so

And all of these had both been intermingling with each other and with far-flung groups from across the waves for a very long time. So how do you define an ethnic Englishman, for example?

They're all look the same so physically you can't. You'd define it by where they were born, who their parents were, their accent, where they grew up, what their surname is ect

So what about immigration before and after that point? Would it surprise you to learn that there were non-white people in this country then, and mingled their DNA in with the 'ethnic' groups?

There was little immigration before the 20th century in this country so that what little there was just intermixed with the natives and were absorbed into gene pool.

So are you saying that physical appearance determines someone's character?

So what names would you consider soundly ehtnically English, then?

1950 is too modern, lol. But in terms of mass globalisation (as I mentioned) you're not that far off.

I don't see why immigrants would disagree with me, seeing as they are likely coming from their own country and have an ethnic identity. 2nd/3rd generation would have the necessary insecurity though.

Immigration was, in spurts, enormous and varied, and people of those times whined about immigration just as much, if not more, than certain present-day people.

Where did I say character? Ethnicity is a social identity, around belonging to a group of people, of course your race and looks is a factor in this, maybe that upsets some people but thats just how it is

Names with an English and Anglo-Saxon origin? lol

Not really, anecdotal I know, but I have some non-white friends born and raised here who are as English as roast beef. And that's a funny thing about roast beef: Sunday lunch is something that French immigrants brought to this country.



You're saying there's none? So does that mean that there's no surname which hasn't been affected by immigration?

Last year we received over 500,000 immigrants into this country. Do you have evidence we recieved similar numbers in such a small amount of time before the 20th century?