Finally, They've Admitted It - Konstantin Kisin
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The battle over the upcoming by-election in Gorton and Denton has, so far, been largely uneventful. The Labour Party, which holds the seat, looks set to lose it, as you'd expect. Their leader has, after all, the worst personal satisfaction ratings of any British prime minister since records began. Reform looks set to do well, which, with immigration dominating the political conversation, is also unsurprising. The Greens are also performing strongly and, like reform, may even win the seat, for reasons I explained in my last video. So far, so predictable. But then a video by green candidate Hannah Spencer began doing the rounds. The clip itself is unremarkable. It wouldn't even be worth discussing if it weren't for one minor detail.
It's delivered entirely in Urdu. My name is Hannah Spencer. Now you might be thinking, look how right wing Constantine has become. Why does anyone care whether a few unrepresentative areas have a lot of people from a particular community living there? After all, this tends to happen when groups of people move from country to country. People are not atomized individuals, especially in more traditional societies. British settlers who moved to the New World didn't move in groups of three either. A lot of immigration happens in clusters. It's why so many big cities have a Chinatown. I'm not against Chinatowns. Then again, I've never seen a British politician campaigning in Chinese. I'm aware, as I say this, that some American viewers might find it strange that I take issue with this.
After all, there are many parts of the US where you'll get by just as easily with Spanish as you will with English. There's a big difference between Britain and America, as a British-born Pakistani Uber driver once explained to me in Los Angeles. British people aren't racist, he said. It's just space. Britain is a small country. America is a big country. When you move to America, you're not taking someone else's space.
How does immigration impact political dynamics in the UK?
This reflects in the linguistic differences too. When you become an American citizen, you're called a first-generation American. When you become a British citizen, you're a first-generation immigrant. I'm not complaining. That's what I call myself because that's a cultural difference between Britain and America. This difference is partly caused by something else too. America displaced its native population and replaced it with waves of colonists from different parts of Europe and later immigrants from all over the world. With the exception of the people brought there against their will, they all effectively took the land from someone else. Whether your ancestors did the initial taking or moved there more recently, you still benefit from that land being taken by living on it.
The native population of North America is dwarfed by the more recent arrivals. I say more recent and not recent because when it comes to land, someone always took it from someone else. With the exception of Australian aboriginals, there are no people in the world who can claim they were the first modern humans to settle on land they currently occupy outside a handful of tiny, isolated island communities. Everyone else took the land they currently live on from someone else. And because Americans have a collective sense of being historically recent arrivals, it's just that much harder for them to deny other people the American dream their great-grandparents saw, provided they do it legally. As I've explained before, until very, very recently, Britain was a highly ethnically and culturally homogenous society.
Your opinion of whether that's good or bad is unimportant for the purposes of what I'm saying here. The fact is, in the lifetime of almost everyone alive today, London and other British cities have gone from being overwhelmingly populated by native Brits to being majority minority.
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