British culture



Cockney Mackem said:
It's possible that it was a very brief high water mark, and there's an element of doubt on any figures because not all census data from the time recorded ethnicity or were all that accurate. In 1800 the population of London was approx 1m, so black people on or near that time were around 50k. Maybe that's on the high side but they were definitely in 5 fugures at the start of the century and there was an influx of 10 to 15 thousand when slaves started to the freed on landing on British soil, and then the slave trade was dismantled altogether. Also bear in mind what is/was classed as the black population, which would have included someone with one black parent or one black grandparent.

The subsequent reductions are a combination of black people moving out to colonial territories and their descendants being mixed to the point of invisibility.

Tbh I'm trying to remember where I read the 5% but it's undeniable that the black presence in London at that time has been airbrushed out of history
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You do need to find/clarify that mind, you are talking of 1 in 20 Londoners not being white in 1800 !??!?
 
UK white population since the war.

1951 - 99.8%
1961 - 99.2%
1971 - 97.8%
1981 - 96.5%
1991 - 94.5%
2001 - 92.1%
2011 - 87.0%
2021 - (probably somewhere in the 80%-85% region)

Later years are from the census. Some of the earlier years are my own estimates based on the ethnic minority population and the UK population. For example ethnic minorities were at 2 million in 1981 (UK population was 56.33 million), 1.3 million in 1971, 415,000 in 1961, 100,000 in 1951.

Honestly I don't think you can fight ethnic globalisation, its inevitable we're all going to be a brown tinge at some point.
 
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Harry Angstrom said:
The East Europeans children and grandchildren will become British as everyone else.
The Blacks will be part of the culture but have their own spin on it and contribute massively to pop culture.
The indians and muslim middle classes will be the professionals.
The muslim working class will live their own lives in segregated areas of Northern cities and larger areas in the bigger cities.

Most will integrate and get on but have their own spin on what it is to be British.

Obviously these are sweeping generalisations and within each group there will significant difference from the norm.
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Have a like ...
 
Sharpshooter said:
UK white population since the war.

1951 - 99.8%
1961 - 99.2%
1971 - 97.8%
1981 - 96.5%
1991 - 94.5%
2001 - 92.1%
2011 - 87.0%
2021 - (probably somewhere in the 80%-85% region)

Later years are from the census. Some of the earlier years are my own estimates based on the ethnic minority population and the UK population. For example ethnic minorities were at 2 million in 1981 (UK population was 56.33 million), 1.3 million in 1971, 415,000 in 1961, 100,000 in 1951.

Honestly I don't think you can fight ethnic globalisation, its inevitable we're all going to be a brown tinge at some point.
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Poignant stats. Disagree with the last part, that is exactly what you’re seeing happen across the west now, we’re at 5mph and there’s 140 on the clock.
 
Sharpshooter said:
UK white population since the war.

1951 - 99.8%
1961 - 99.2%
1971 - 97.8%
1981 - 96.5%
1991 - 94.5%
2001 - 92.1%
2011 - 87.0%
2021 - (probably somewhere in the 80%-85% region)

Later years are from the census. Some of the earlier years are my own estimates based on the ethnic minority population and the UK population. For example ethnic minorities were at 2 million in 1981 (UK population was 56.33 million), 1.3 million in 1971, 415,000 in 1961, 100,000 in 1951.

Honestly I don't think you can fight ethnic globalisation, its inevitable we're all going to be a brown tinge at some point.
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:lol:
f***ing fanny. One positive though. You and your scratter mates won't need to gan on the sunbed or use fake tan.
 
Beery said:
I don’t think people can actually define what they mean by British culture

We have a lot of heritage, but in terms of British traits we have wildly different stereotypes
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Culture doesn't have to be exclusive or all encompassing for it to exist. The problem is not the defining of the culture itself but the rather bizarre standards set by those seemingly attempting to dismantle it.

If I asked a Nigerian what Nigerian culture is, they would tell me about language, dialects and food. Here in Britain we can do the same and it's sneered at.
 
Alcoholic_Author said:
Culture doesn't have to be exclusive or all encompassing for it to exist. The problem is not the defining of the culture itself but the rather bizarre standards set by those seemingly attempting to dismantle it.

If I asked a Nigerian what Nigerian culture is, they would tell me about language, dialects and food. Here in Britain we can do the same and it's sneered at.
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What common culture do I share with someone from a middle class background in let’s say Leicester?
 
Sharpshooter said:
UK white population since the war.

1951 - 99.8%
1961 - 99.2%
1971 - 97.8%
1981 - 96.5%
1991 - 94.5%
2001 - 92.1%
2011 - 87.0%
2021 - (probably somewhere in the 80%-85% region)

Later years are from the census. Some of the earlier years are my own estimates based on the ethnic minority population and the UK population. For example ethnic minorities were at 2 million in 1981 (UK population was 56.33 million), 1.3 million in 1971, 415,000 in 1961, 100,000 in 1951.

Honestly I don't think you can fight ethnic globalisation, its inevitable we're all going to be a brown tinge at some point.
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Read the camp of the saints
 
Beery said:
What common culture do I share with someone from a middle class background in let’s say Leicester?
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You eat Yorkshire puddings on your Sunday dinner or you drink tea with milk in it. Once again, culture is not exclusive or necessarily all encompassing. For example a man who speaks Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides is still doing something that is within the confines of British culture, I cannot speak Gaelic but that does not mean I am not taking part in British culture. Culture is multifaceted and deep.
 

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