To think everything will be unrecognisable in 50 years

Have you said this to Native Americans? That their culture was simply too weak to survive?

Prove me wrong.

So what is this culture people in Britain aren't allowed to protect? I assume it's more complex than flags?

Cultural values are one aspect of many in traditional culture.

Yes values and beliefs but also social etiquette, manners, customs, traditions, language, communication style, social class systems, social and family structures, religion, history, heritage, national indentity. There so many aspects! Food, drink, recreation, sports, arts, literature, politics, festivals, celebrations, clothing, beauty standards, civic duty, governance, architecture, community, social life, education, work ethic, the natural environment... Humour!!!

To try and narrow the conversation down to cultural values would not be helpful.

If something has to be codified to exist then you can’t believe in anything that is not tangible. So I assume you also don’t believe in manners, love, charity, hope, or culture not related to geography, such as gay culture? None of it exist as it’s not codified in a document somewhere? Does our constitution not exist either, as it isn’t written down?

There was a fab thread recently about people's favourite aspects of quintessential British culture. It was wonderful!

None of that exists, because it isn’t in an exhaustive list 😉

You made the statement. You prove it.

Do you think that “diverse looking people” can’t be racist? Well, in the words of some who haunt these threads, “educate yourself”. There is huge animosity and conflict between different immigrant groups. Last year there was violence between Muslims and Sikhs in Leicester (I think). That’s small fry compared with the rival gang conflicts in France, especially in schools.

This thread is proving it nicely.

A lot likely will be different, I don't think it will be everything.

There are folktales going back centuries around British locations that people can still see today. Plenty of examples of British cultures that are too often undervalued and easily overlooked.

We will need to get through the population bulge, and that will be painful, much of it because those in power keep kicking the can down the road on ways to minimise the pain in that shift of following generations being smaller.

The destructive, masochistic, hate-filled Left have used immigration as a tool to destroy national identity.

And the Right Tories who brought in the Boris-wave used immigration as a tool to maximise profits for themselves and their ilk while pretending to be against immigration. We had a Tory Chancellor say in Parliament that the immigration system was 'for-profit'.

Both Labour and Tory governments have used immigration to sow conflict and distract from their lack of and poor infrastructure investments, their inflating the state institutions for their own benefit, their messing around at the edges to pretend to care about an issue rather than caring about themselves.

But many of those things have changed massively over time - they are not fixed, immutable things, they evolve.

Would you want to go back to living according to Victorian social norms? What about Elizabethan ones? If not,, why not?

What gives you the right to make that assumption? That's a personal attack in my book.

What is being destroyed? We have systems in place to protect that. The crazy weather has nothing to do with migration to the U.K. There is no over population, Reform are trying to convince us to have more babies.

Some of them, yes. Beautiful architecture. Amazing inventions. The Christmas tree!

I feel sad that you clearly have such a hard time immersing yourself in culture and recognising it for what it is, rather than reducing it to merely a musical instrument or a building.

According to data from the
Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII), the UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries, ranking 189th out of 240 countries and territories for biodiversity health. 1]
Only 53% of the UK’s original nature remains intact, which sits far below the global average of 79% and the index's "safe limit" of 90%.

The landmark State of Nature report and other recent ecological studies outline severe long-term trends:

• Extinction Risks: One in six species (16%) surveyed in Great Britain is at risk of extinction. This risk skyrockets for specific groups, threatening 43% of birds, 31% of amphibians and reptiles, and 26% of land mammals. 1, 2]
• Species Loss & Abundance: The average abundance of terrestrial and freshwater species has dropped by 18% since 1970. 1]
• Flora and Insects: More than half of all flowering plants (54%) have vanished from areas where they used to thrive. Crucial pollinators like bees, hoverflies, and moths have seen an average decline of 18%.

I agree that Glasgow is less Scottish than ever before. The Celts have always been the majority for thousands of years and this culture was recognisably Scottish but now there is a more international feeling from it, it could be any city in the world. It’s sad to see how most cities are alike these days. Their is very little difference between any of them, whether I’m in Asia, Europe or America- I travel a lot in these continents and the way cheap takeaway and throwaway consumerism has taken over cities

How could there be an ultimate source? Probably the best source is the collective indigenous people who chose to preserve and pass on their culture. But I'm afraid I cannot give you a link for that. On a very granular level, my grandmother taught me to sing Be Thou my Vision, which her grandmother sang to her. My children can sing that hymn, and a great many other traditional hymns and folk songs from all over Britain and I will make sure my future grandchildren can too. Would you like to look up how old the hymn 'Be Thou my Vision' is? Perhaps it's not multicultural enough for you.
I don't know what your heritage is and it doesn't matter, this land is a rich trove of many hundreds of years of beautiful culture. And those who prefer to cackle derisively and dimiss our culture and heritage as fish and chips and the royal family, they are all the poorer for that.

I've already said that there can be no single definition of Indian culture.

The "culture" of rural farming communities in Northern India is worlds away from, for example, the culture of the metropolitan elite in Mumbai.

They are both versions of "Indian culture". And there will be many more versions besides.

Again, different time, different history. Equating British Muslims (you do realise there are far more cultures in Britain than "Muslim" and indigenous Brit, right?) with 17th, 18th and 19th century European colonisers just makes you look daft.

Now if you'd said "their firepower was simply too weak" you'd have a valid point.

Yawn....yet another blantantly right wing racist/xenophobic post dressed up as 'boo hoo the UK is in crisis'

I know . I was there ! I don’t remember ever doing my homework by candlelight! My point was that every decade has its issues, we live through it and move on.

I'll take that as you can't then.

Always different for Britain, isn’t it?

Wrong again, there is a overall traditional Indian culture. The fact that you can then start to separate it into different time periods and regions and compare and contrast the differences makes no difference to the greater truth. That would be like looking a painting by Seurat with a magnifying glass and saying that there is no greater picture. You know this, but you don't want to admit it.