Lennie Varvarides
1 min readJun 2, 2022

I am highlighting this part as it echos a sentiment I hear from people in the UK who are scared that their, "culture" is erodeding and that people who come, "to their country" must absorb "our culture" -

Ultimatly their concerns are based on immigaration and the fear that, "too many people" are coming to "their country" and that Britian is loosing its identiy.

As a daughter of immigrants, I find these conversations hidious but, "white british people" are scared that they are becoming irrelevant...because they actually are.

I am at the begining of my own education into race theory, but the way I see it is that the future cannot be "of a white majority" since black, indigenous, and people of color represent over 80% of the world’s population.

That together with the fact that Western countries like the UK have an ongoing decline in fertility rates, the UK will always need immigration.

Instead of being scared that immigrants are, "taking over their country" these people who protest they want to "protect their country," need to accept that they need immigrants if they want "their country" to actualy survive.

Thank you for writing this post and giving me the oppertunity to share my thoughts.

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Lennie Varvarides
Lennie Varvarides

Written by Lennie Varvarides

London-based dyslexic creative working in development. Founder of DYSPLA, founding editor @ The Museum of the Neurodivergent-Aesthetic.

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