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Yes, it is.

Anyone concerned about that outcome probably shouldn't have allowed their ruler to declare herself Empress of India, creating a nation with a 10-to-1 ratio of "people living on a subcontinent" vs. "people living on an island." Along with many, many other decisions made by the UK in the past 400-odd-years.

Point is, it's a bit late to complain about the "average Brit" not looking like a Viking took a Celtic bride anymore, yeah? Not after putting so much effort into being an empire that spot-welded as many different people under its flag as it possibly could for awhile?



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Personally, I do not care. I'm not in the business of telling other countries how to run their affairs, generally.

I am, however, in the business of calling out hypocrisy when a new age of isolationists ignore their own history, because that historically ends poorly.




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