White English people are the dominant social group in not only England but the whole of the UK because England makes up the majority of the British population, outnumbering the Scottish, Welsh and northern Irish; and the majority of people are white in the UK. Similarly, people of English/British descent have long been the dominant social group in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And the UK was once the most powerful country in the world and even since World War II as the United States has become the most powerful country in the world, a lot of English people have sought to ride off of the USA’s glory, by constantly emphasising the “special relationship” between the two countries and trying to use the relationship with the superpower America to boost their national prestige.
But, the European Union is/was different.
The English/British were not the dominant social group in the European Union as Germany had a larger population than the UK and a large economy and if any country dominated the European Union it was Germany not Britain, and certainly not England alone.
Maybe white English people resented the fact that for the first time they weren’t the dominant group. Maybe white English people when in the European Union felt how Scottish and Welsh and Northern Irish people feel in the UK, hence why a lot of Brexit nationalists often portrayed the EU as the “Fourth Reich” or talked about German malevolence and German dominance similar to how Scottish and Welsh nationalists often derisively call the UK Parliament the “English Parliament” or say that they are controlled by England.
English people knew that they could not claim Germany’s success and power as their own like they may be able to latch on to America’s power as Germany is thoroughly foreign unlike America and doesn’t speak the same language.
How far do you agree with this?