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Originally Posted by Susi
To me the first step of separating the union is to cleanse it from the multicultural and multiracial view. Britain (as in the Isles), as it was known many years ago ago wasn't full of blacks and indians. Should I also say that the assemblies and parliaments of Europe should be full of blacks and indians and so forth because otherwise they couldn't perfectly represent "Spanishness" or "Frenchness" and so forth? Or do neither of these nations have an imperial history either?
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The main question is of how one sees the concept of Britain, whether it is a purely geographic reality, an island on which three nations - England, Scotland and Wales - coexist, and maybe tomorrow three independent states, or maybe something more, an ideology, or I don't know what.
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Originally Posted by Susi
Most "subjects of the Commonwealth" are no longer considered British, in Canada, before 1947 they were given British citizenship, but afterwards, they were merely Canadian.
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You are speaking of Caribbeans, Indians, Pakistanis etc. settling to Canada?