i go back to visit my sister and her Spanish husband and see whole areas of Spain where English immigrants have taken over areas and priced out local Spanish people. They never integrate, don’t respect local culture and go into churches and religious places topless with pink burnt skin, don’t learn the language or frequent the local businesses but go to English run places with English breakfasts and John Smiths. I don’t see the Spanish complain even when they had the mass Tommy marches in Spain. They thought they were idiots. The Spanish government have invested in local infrastructure and integration by helping recent arrivals learn English. My sister is the sole English person amongst Filipinos, Afghans, North Africans and French learning Spanish. They have seen the benefits of getting people who were once working irregularly into the tax system as they are now taxed and brought into society. They bump along well with local people but it is the English in Spain who are aloof, introspective and racist and fail to integrate. They want the world to bend to them rather than accept the benefits of other countries. English is a hodgepodge of words from other cultures, algebra is from the Arabs, the idea of using algorithms to programme computers was from a Muslim scholar, several astronomical and mathematical innovations were from India, Mesopotamia, the Ottomans and others, the numeric system from India, the DNA of British people is a miasma of mixes from successive waves of immigration and travel, the national food is curry from Bangladesh, battered fish is from the Jews in the East End and popularised by the Limehouse Chinese, chips from Huguenots and Belgium and Dutch sailors, spices were popularised by the Dutch and Portuguese settlers. English culture is a mixture of different languages such as Cornish, Welsh, Gaelic, and others that have permeated this Island nation. It is part of our DNA that we assimilate and absorb things, ideas, culture and people from other countries and this is what makes us so vibrant and has created the dynamism that drives this country. As nationalism has pervaded, we have entered a period of introversion and stagnation. don’t you think this is a coincidence? We are better than this, to close our minds and our hearts to the world and become an insular and small people that blame everyone else for the lack of vision of our leaders (facilitated by a rabid racist media) who then blame their mistakes on the marginalised communities that have a negligible affect on our country. We were once great, intelligent and outward looking and we have become stupid, lazy and indolent and blame everyone else for our illness.