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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 692849" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes... strange as it may seem, I also understand those wishes and feelings, even if I do not exactly share them. I understand the sense some people have in the UK of wanting to "regain control", of getting their "own country" back... as you say, it is a common feeling among peoples. Why, then, the sadness and disarray that I and many of my compatriots feel at Brexit? I think because in the end that feeling is largely mythic and because when you cut yourselves off from connectedness with others, the feeling is one of claustrophia, isolation, a kind of false pride that doesn't lead anywhere healthy or good. After all, Britain is a deeply multi-cultural society and is not now going to stop being so - that forgotten dream of pre-war Britain in which the overwhelming majority of your fellows were white and British for generations back is never going to come again. Britain is now a melting pot, just like America. Belonging to Europe brought us all sorts of opportunities and benefits that will now become apparent through their loss. Britain is now a poorer place, spiritually as much as economically.</p><p></p><p>Them's me views - and just me views :-~)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 692849, member: 11227"] Yes... strange as it may seem, I also understand those wishes and feelings, even if I do not exactly share them. I understand the sense some people have in the UK of wanting to "regain control", of getting their "own country" back... as you say, it is a common feeling among peoples. Why, then, the sadness and disarray that I and many of my compatriots feel at Brexit? I think because in the end that feeling is largely mythic and because when you cut yourselves off from connectedness with others, the feeling is one of claustrophia, isolation, a kind of false pride that doesn't lead anywhere healthy or good. After all, Britain is a deeply multi-cultural society and is not now going to stop being so - that forgotten dream of pre-war Britain in which the overwhelming majority of your fellows were white and British for generations back is never going to come again. Britain is now a melting pot, just like America. Belonging to Europe brought us all sorts of opportunities and benefits that will now become apparent through their loss. Britain is now a poorer place, spiritually as much as economically. Them's me views - and just me views :-~) [/QUOTE]
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