Multiculturalism.

 

"Multiculturalism" can mean a number of different things, but at its simplest, I suppose it can be defined as allowing many different cultures to co-exist within one nation and respecting one another's culture.

You often hear the term "BAME Communities", which is rather meaningless, because there isn't really such a thing. It's a lot of wishful thinking. These different ethnic groups don't really mix with one another and have little in common with one another and can often, be hostile to one another.

The old gentleman who fought in WWII, who appeared on TV, didn't say why he felt the way he did, so we can only speculate. The Britain that he grew up in, is very much different today. I'm 71, and as a child, I rarely saw a black face. Many people who came to Britain in the 1950s, from the Caribbean, saw Britain as their "mother country." As they were part of the British Empire, they had been educated in much the same way as English people. They were invited to come to England and met with a lot of racial abuse.

In retrospect, I believe that many people think that fighting Hitler and the Nazis was a war worth fighting. It's thanks to people like this old gentleman, that we never came under the heel of the Nazi jackboot and fascism. The plight of European Jews was not a casus belli for WWII, because most people didn't know about the concentration camps until the camps were liberated.