Britishness- and multi culturalism

[lemonysnickett]

Do you think that the curent thinking of moving away from multi culturalism to a society that teaches more about Britishness, will give us a more cohesive and respectful society? I think there is a problem that too many indigenous British people are very unaware themselves about what being British means, apart from the fact that they were born in Britain.Rather than focus the argument on how immigrant populations do not accept British culture and values, should we not be asking if the indigenous white British population are truly willing to accept that someone of a different skin colour/race/religion are as British as they are.

Sorry for the apparent drift off topic, but part of the reason for the influx of foreign workers is the combination of poor education and useless education in this country.
My firm does not import people who are "benefits scroungers", on the contrary they are major contributors to the economy. One young Russian guy was offered a non-trivial amount of cash by the Swiss government not to leave. Given that Switzerland is picky about letting people in, that's a pretty good badge.
A few people I've spoken to, what I (unfairly) label middle class left wing racists are really spooked by this.
They don't mind Polish plumbers, but realise that the influx from E.Europe et al is not scroungers, but people who outclass them in both raw talent and education.
This is good for Britain. The success of a nation is a function of the quality of it's people, and despite the best efforts of Blair and Kelly, we are improving relative to Europe.
Whether it's good for the British people is a different question. I get a bit sad when British managers tell me they prefer French graduates, or when one of our few good British PhDs gets blown out of the water by a Serb.
Numerically these people are small. We're talking about 5-10,000 per year, but it is an interesting experiment to have a country where the smartest people are mostly foreign.