neo-Nazis in British Army arrested

[DBTrek]

How would your analysis apply to the Amish?

The Amish have their own culture, so I'm not sure what you're asking.
Are they synonymous with "American culture"?
No.
They don't join our wars, they don't share our history, they don't partake in our innovation and industry, they don't produce cultural goods that become part of American society, they don't embrace our values, etc, etc.
But they would be Americans - by Monte passport rules.

[Montegriffo]

Since you mentioned cricket, I have more in common with a cricket loving Muslim than I do with some drunken Scottish football hooligan. Hell we even have brown skinned Muslims in the English cricket team.
I'm surprised to find you one of those people who thinks British culture is so weak that Muslims are going to destroy it. Maybe you didn't have enough British stiff upper lip in your genes.

[DBTrek]

Wait . . . so you consider your entire culture to be passport-based . . . and I'm the one who finds British culture weak?

There's a logic-pretzel for you.

[TheReal_ND]

The Amish are never going to be left alone on Internet forums are they?

[DBTrek]

The Amish are never going to be left alone on Internet forums are they?

Luckily, they'll never know how much shit is being talked about them, because they aren't down with digital mumbo-jumbo.

[TheReal_ND]

Not true. They have dating apps. And they hate Hilary with a passion. It's just a matter of rounding them up to vote like was done in PA last year.

[Speaker to Animals]

A lot of them don't even speak English. They have no idea what people say about them online, and probably don't care.

[BjornP]

From the OP:

The details emerged after West Midlands Police revealed that they had swooped at addresses across the country to arrest four men on " on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism"

That part is hopefully something all sane societies would arrest someone for.

As for the "if the stamp on the passport says British, you're one of us" thing that Monte's arguing for, though.... Seems like somewhat of an anti-social mindset. A society without any sort of shared values is not a society, at all. While nationalism is the stupid romantization, fetishising and idealization of one's nation, the folly of national-ism cannot serve as a good counter-argument against the value having or being a nation, period. You can have Jews, Sikhs, Muslims, whatever be part of that British nation and obviously Brits already have that to some extent, but this just proves that there needs to be a shared cultural value, a sense by all those people that they're part of a tribe together with the British.

[TheReal_ND]

on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism"

Did they force someone to watch BBC without a license?

[GloryofGreece]

Genetic testing shows the basic makeup of the British people hasn't really changed that much despite the various invasions.

Over here in America we are all mixed up with English, Irish, and German genes all mixed together, mostly. That's not the case for you guys.

Are Anglo considered Germanic or their own thing?