The violent unrest that has caused so much damage in the UK has not in fact happened across the UK. It has almost been exclusively confined to England.
True, violent riots also took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but, interestingly enough, even there they were largely perpetrated by British loyalists, along with a few far-right extremists from Dublin.
The counter-protestors were seemingly mostly drawn from Northern Ireland’s Catholic community.
At least up until now, Scotland and Wales have remained peaceful. When considering why this is the case, we might look at how the English are positioned within the United Kingdom.
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After all the mess has been cleared from the streets, it would be advisable for the government and society as a whole, to have a debate about what “England” and “Englishness” stand for in a Union profoundly divided by rising nationalism and in a world where Britannia no longer rules the waves.
Racism is mostly unrelated to actual immigration. In Germany the east has comparable immigration percentages to Scotland but leads the nation in fascist poll numbers by a huge margin. Economic factors are orders of magnitude more important
Economic factors don’t correlate either. It’s tied directly to mentions in the media.
The least they see different people the more they fear them.
Yeah if they would meet more immigrants in person and not only in the fear mongering of social media or the right wing press there would be less racism.
Even just brits who came from immigration generations ago it would help