On Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 11:50:29 AM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
On Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 5:39:09 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
No more Rule Britannia! No more British Empire than the sun never set.
Great Britain has become a big joke.
England now has a Prime Minister who is of Hindu Indian origin. Scotland now has First Minister who is of Muslim-Pakistani origin. That’s having the worse of both worlds.
Any Hindu-Muslim conflict in India or any Pakistan-India conflict will spill-over to Great Britain.
"横看成岭侧成峰，远近高低各不同。"
The UK as an empire is an incredibly shrinking one just like a tall mountain eroded by rain
and wind into a small one. But looking from another perspective, one can still a range
spreading over continents. Yes, British as a civilization is still at its prime. UK leaders and
intellectuals are not misguided for trying to forge an empire of the mind.
Hindu-Muslim conflict spill over to Great Britain would not cause a lot of damage to the world.
But how India can successfully integrate its British and Hindus civilization or not would be world
shaking.
For more than a century, English proficiency is ticket toward a better life. Hence, Indian elites, like their
Hong Kong and Singapore counterparts, are mostly English speaking.
China's rise meaning the clash of civilizations as suggested by Samuel Huntington decades ago.
China's effort to promote Chinese education in Hong Kong has rejected by the Hong Kong's elites whose
meal tickets and their sense of superiority are linked to their English proficiency. In response, these elites
manipulated the students to protest against the Hong Kong government. But overall, China had won this
short engagement.
More recently, Singapore's opposition party is trying to a bill restricting non-English speaking immigration.
Probably the bill would pass.
But Hong Kong and Singapore are small engagements. Will India because a English first country? It is the
biggest prize after the USA for the continuation of the British supremacy.
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