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FiniteField | 9 months ago
>if someone's parents are, say, Polish, but they're born in the UK, surely that makes them White British
Not exactly. "White British" as a compound noun means "ethnically British", not "white AND a British citizen".
>Well, we mostly speak English with a lot of vocabulary from Norman French, rather than Welsh or a close relative of it as we would have done had those invasions never happened. And I don't see that changing as a result of recent immigration.
Large areas of England do not speak English as their first language, and there are rapidly evolving youth dialects with strong black and other minority ethnic influences. As a reminder, the mutation of Old English due to Norman French influences took centuries. It's not at all out of the question that even the current already-done migration may cause the largest transformation of the language since the Normans.
Angostura|9 months ago
Which is an odd point.
"Large areas of England do not speak English as their first language". That's no way to speak about Norfolk