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Whites are becoming the minority by 2056Whites- are becoming the minority by 2056

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Thestarsmayalign · 14/02/2026 13:54

I read this ( not daily mail!) on MN -is this actually a true / statistical prediction?
I can send the link to the thread that stated this .
I have never heard this before . I assume that this is not accurate at all .( also assume applying to uk) .

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MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 09:59

Playingvideogames · 15/02/2026 09:46

Do you think it is a shame when a culture or population ceases to exist over time? Genuine question.

I think all cultures (and all populations) naturally evolve and change over time. If you look at Britain through the ages, it has been a constant process of change over the generations, and our lives now are thankfully very different from the lives of most of our ancestors.

Our society will continue to evolve and change. I don't see that as an inherently bad thing. I think we can embrace the new while seeking to preserve the things that we value.

pointythings · 15/02/2026 10:13

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 09:59

I think all cultures (and all populations) naturally evolve and change over time. If you look at Britain through the ages, it has been a constant process of change over the generations, and our lives now are thankfully very different from the lives of most of our ancestors.

Our society will continue to evolve and change. I don't see that as an inherently bad thing. I think we can embrace the new while seeking to preserve the things that we value.

Agreed, but we live in an era where those who want to manipulate the people use cultural change as a threat. Look at Trump's recent rant about how if Canada went on with their bridge, they would end up owned by China, and China would ban ice hockey.

And people believe this kind of bullshit.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 10:13

Playingvideogames · 15/02/2026 09:53

Do you think it’s wrong that travellers (and many other groups) marry within their own culture to preserve it? Are they racist?

I'm not telling anyone who to marry. It's a personal choice.

But if anyone were to tell me that I was wrong to marry someone from a different culture because I should have married someone with the same skin colour in order to "preserve my culture", then I would laugh in their face and tell them to fuck off. Who I marry is my decision, and mine alone.

I'm not aware of anyone being forced into cross cultural marriages?

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:20

SugarPuffSandwiches · 15/02/2026 08:46

There we have it - "a hated minority"
The real reason some on this thread don't want to see more non white faces around, they're scared they'll be treated the same way they treat or think of them.
I don't hate minorities, we're all people and I'll treat you as such. Which is why I'm not "bothered"if I'm in the company/vicinity of lots of people who aren't white.

Minorities are not treated well in most countries. It’s the reason Jewish people created Israel.

That you would intentionally render your own kids a minority in what should have been their country is frankly repulsive.

Playingvideogames · 15/02/2026 10:22

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 10:13

I'm not telling anyone who to marry. It's a personal choice.

But if anyone were to tell me that I was wrong to marry someone from a different culture because I should have married someone with the same skin colour in order to "preserve my culture", then I would laugh in their face and tell them to fuck off. Who I marry is my decision, and mine alone.

I'm not aware of anyone being forced into cross cultural marriages?

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So it’s a personal choice for communities to make it unacceptable for members to marry outside ‘their group’ if they’re not white, but if they are white it’s racism?

I couldn’t care less what colour the public here end up being and I will be long dead, but there’s always hypocrisy in views like yours. And I’m just highlighting it.

Playingvideogames · 15/02/2026 10:24

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:20

Minorities are not treated well in most countries. It’s the reason Jewish people created Israel.

That you would intentionally render your own kids a minority in what should have been their country is frankly repulsive.

I think it’s a very first world luxury belief that everyone is essentially the same underneath, that there are zero inherent differences between populations and only white people are racist etc

marcyhermit · 15/02/2026 10:24

I don't understand what 'culture' or 'traditions' the racists think are being stolen from them by British people having a variety of skin tones?

This island has always had a diversity of people from all over the world, even our language and ancient place names reflect that.

There's no one unchanged indigenous culture that's existed untouched for thousands of years.

Your children and grandchildren being brown isn't going to mean you lose your culture or traditions, whatever they may be (open racism?).

SugarPuffSandwiches · 15/02/2026 10:24

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:20

Minorities are not treated well in most countries. It’s the reason Jewish people created Israel.

That you would intentionally render your own kids a minority in what should have been their country is frankly repulsive.

It still is their country. We're not a minority either.

marcyhermit · 15/02/2026 10:26

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:20

Minorities are not treated well in most countries. It’s the reason Jewish people created Israel.

That you would intentionally render your own kids a minority in what should have been their country is frankly repulsive.

Here's a crazy idea - stop treating minorities badly, then you don't have to be scared of being a minority?

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 10:26

Playingvideogames · 15/02/2026 10:22

So it’s a personal choice for communities to make it unacceptable for members to marry outside ‘their group’ if they’re not white, but if they are white it’s racism?

I couldn’t care less what colour the public here end up being and I will be long dead, but there’s always hypocrisy in views like yours. And I’m just highlighting it.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem? That isn't what I said at all.

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:26

5128gap · 15/02/2026 09:51

The UK doesn't have 'an individual trait' that's connected to skin colour. We are a country who's citizens are ethnically diverse and this has been the case for decades. Some people who live here have brought with them cultures from their country of origin and as a result we are a multi cultural society. So if you're looking for the 'trait' of the UK, it is diversity. I know you don't like that it's our trait, but it doesn't mean it isn't, and many of us are happy to embrace it.

You really aren’t that ethnically diverse, just more diverse than in the past. If you want to see what ethnic diversity gets you, look at subsaharan Africa. That diversity is a huge reason why many of their countries are incredibly unstable. Democracy becomes little more than an ethnic head count.

It’s becoming that way in America tbh. Nobody votes on ‘ideas’ it is just competing ethnic blocs trying to get goodies for their own group.

That the UK wanted to follow in this direction is really astonishing.

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:28

marcyhermit · 15/02/2026 10:26

Here's a crazy idea - stop treating minorities badly, then you don't have to be scared of being a minority?

So it’s the Jews fault they were persecuted for so long? All persecuted minorities brought it upon themselves?

Is this really where you want to go?

Greenwitchart · 15/02/2026 10:29

Thestarsmayalign · 15/02/2026 08:25

MoFadaCromulent · Today 00:22
Poetnojo · Yesterday 21:18
Are you saying it will be good when there are fewer white people in Britan?
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if any white person said this there would be an outcry.
I feel that other countries are allowed to be proud of their heritage , their individual traitt, but somehow its turned into almost a crime here.
When I travel on holiday I am pleased that other people are allowed to celebrate this , including countries that are culturally so different . it would be a loss if white people were displaced but it seems that some would be pleased - as above . Diversity? So lomg as no / less white people.!

What aspect of British culture are you not able to "celebrate" exactly?

Ultimately ÿour posts scream of someone who believe that to be British you have to be white, which is typical racist trope.

You seem to forget that people from all different ethnicity are British.

marcyhermit · 15/02/2026 10:30

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:28

So it’s the Jews fault they were persecuted for so long? All persecuted minorities brought it upon themselves?

Is this really where you want to go?

The racism has addled your brain love 😂

ColdAsAWitches · 15/02/2026 10:33

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:28

So it’s the Jews fault they were persecuted for so long? All persecuted minorities brought it upon themselves?

Is this really where you want to go?

No, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what she said.

Playingvideogames · 15/02/2026 10:33

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 15/02/2026 10:26

Do you have a reading comprehension problem? That isn't what I said at all.

I appreciate marriage is a personal choice and you can’t extend political beliefs to it, but do you think it’s racist that (for example) travellers strongly encourage other members to marry their ‘own’ and it’s taboo not to? Can you just answer that?

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:33

marcyhermit · 15/02/2026 10:30

The racism has addled your brain love 😂

It’s like you only think white people treated minorities badly when the fact is that minority groups are treated badly pretty much everywhere. And most of them did NOTHING to deserve such a fate.

ColdAsAWitches · 15/02/2026 10:36

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:20

Minorities are not treated well in most countries. It’s the reason Jewish people created Israel.

That you would intentionally render your own kids a minority in what should have been their country is frankly repulsive.

It would still be their country! Just because she would have a minority skin colour, it wouldn't stop being her country.
Or maybe the mask is slipping, and you don't think that anyone who is here non-white now is part of this country?

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:38

ColdAsAWitches · 15/02/2026 10:33

No, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what she said.

She’s suggesting it’s karma if minorities treat white people badly. But it’s pretty much a standard that most ethnic groups are treated badly in countries where they form a minority.

pointythings · 15/02/2026 10:38

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:28

So it’s the Jews fault they were persecuted for so long? All persecuted minorities brought it upon themselves?

Is this really where you want to go?

If that is what you read from the post you quoted then you too have a reading comprehension issue.

5128gap · 15/02/2026 10:42

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:28

So it’s the Jews fault they were persecuted for so long? All persecuted minorities brought it upon themselves?

Is this really where you want to go?

That's clearly not where she's going. She's obviously saying that the reason its undesirable to be a minority is because typically the majority treat minorities poorly. And that in a society where the majority treated the minority properly, there'd by no need to fear being a minority.
Your attempt to skew a clearly anti racist post to suggest anti semiticism is a massive reach.

Stepintotheunknown · 15/02/2026 10:43

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:33

It’s like you only think white people treated minorities badly when the fact is that minority groups are treated badly pretty much everywhere. And most of them did NOTHING to deserve such a fate.

White people are treated worse than minorities in the UK now in 2026. DEI favours minorities, social housing favours minorities, employment law favours minorities and so on.

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:44

ColdAsAWitches · 15/02/2026 10:36

It would still be their country! Just because she would have a minority skin colour, it wouldn't stop being her country.
Or maybe the mask is slipping, and you don't think that anyone who is here non-white now is part of this country?

They will be outvoted and marginalized in this case, and it didn’t need to happen. Democracy in truly diverse countries tends towards ethnic head counts, not ideas. I doubt Britain will escape this impulse, because already it seems like this is the trend. Don’t see how Britain would be an outlier in this regard

bemoresloth · 15/02/2026 10:52

Somerford · 15/02/2026 01:16

What a difference a thread title makes

"Jim Radcliffe said Britiain is being colonised by immigrants" - MN lefties absolutely frothing

"Studies suggest indigenous British people are being demographically displaced and replaced" - its just melanin man, chill out

What studies?

The Great Replacement Theory is a far right white nationalist conspiracy theory.

OP hasn't mentioned any studies.

And Ratcliffe is a racist

RingoJuice · 15/02/2026 10:54

5128gap · 15/02/2026 10:42

That's clearly not where she's going. She's obviously saying that the reason its undesirable to be a minority is because typically the majority treat minorities poorly. And that in a society where the majority treated the minority properly, there'd by no need to fear being a minority.
Your attempt to skew a clearly anti racist post to suggest anti semiticism is a massive reach.

I don’t think there’s a case where a majority treated a minority well, and then were fine after a big demographic change.

I think of Lebanese Christians, and their history as a refuge for other persecuted minorities, but it really did not go well for them.

Jewish leaders too understand that a large Arab minority threatens the existence of their country—it cannot be a Jewish state if not controlled by Jewish people. Their history is a stark reminder of that.

Seems like you should not experiment with it. I personally don’t think it will go well because the tendency is to vote for your own interests, which for diverse societies will tend towards group interests.

And when you are diverse, could you ever really agree on what the ‘common interest’ actually means?

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