Originally Posted by
Shigenari
Oh right! When you put it that way the solution is so simple. So you're saying that the way to solve our integration issues is to only let people in who are going to integrate. It's a wonder that nobody has thought of that before...
Oh wait no, I thought thought about it for literally one second and it's completely reductive and unworkable. How do you propose that we actually enforce that?
"Hi, you're looking to immigrate to the UK?"
"Yes."
"Great! Are you willing to work hard and adapt to the culture?"
"Yes."
"Sounds good. Come in!"
It's not like you can test for 'willingness to integrate'. You would have to ask people, and they could just lie to you anyway. The only other way to actually enforce such a ridiculous position would be to have overly stringent entry requirements, but that kind of sledgehammer approach would disproportionately affect people who have 'good intentions', for one, as well as totally destabilise the country given that services like the NHS pretty much completely rely on immigration to function.
The issue of integration is in fact completely tangential to the one of immigration, and actually has a lot more to do with cultural attitudes like your own. To be honest, I and my family were born here and whatever the "we" you're including me in is, I'm put off the idea of integrating with your culture because it seems pretty cunty from where I sit. This country was built on immigration, and is made richer by the influence of other cultures. There is not, as you seem to think, one prevailing homogeneous culture shared among all native Britons and I baulk at the idea that anybody who doesn't conform to your narrow projection of 'Britishness' should be forced to leave the country. Just because previous generations of your family and others who immigrated with them made the choice to be bootlickers, that doesn't mean that everybody else who immigrates to this country should be made to conform to what you deem to be 'appropriate'.
Tl;dr: You don't decide what the culture of this country is, and I'm certainly not a part of your shitty, quasi-fascist cabal. Get fucked.