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This is simply not true of ethnic minorities in Britain. Ours is often a very British story, of how we came to be here. It is why academic studies consistently find ethnic minorities have a mildly higher/stronger sense of British identity than white British. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1356695507305906179
Maybe mildly more a thing about young people. Anout tone of identity: nation + internationalism. Not about an entirely post-national cosmopolitan identity for most young adults
BSA data shows "somewhat proud" to be British > "very proud" to be British. https://twitter.com/TheStaggers/status/455646016357023744?s=19
BSA data shows "somewhat proud" to be British > "very proud" to be British. https://twitter.com/TheStaggers/status/455646016357023744?s=19
The story of Windrush is about 492 people who knew about their claim to be British - yet arriving in a country which did not know it's own history as they did. And 2 generations to secure again that strong claim to being British with which they had begun https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1274964345278128132?s=19
Why do ethnic minorities tend to feel that little bit more British? This is ESRC data (2012) but it's a repeated finding in studies over time
https://www.britishfuture.org/why-do-non-white-brits-feel-that-little-bit-more-british/
https://www.britishfuture.org/why-do-non-white-brits-feel-that-little-bit-more-british/
We all have a different personal story. But here from 2014 is why national identity mattered to me growing up - featuring Gujarat and Cork via Doncaster - and why I think it is going to prove difficult to dispense with in this age of identity. https://www.britishfuture.org/is-there-a-progressive-case-for-national-identity/
A personal account of national identities
Try talking to refugees to Britain - from Hitler, or Hungary in the 1950s through to Syria today - about what becoming British has meant to them. We could argue for seven post-war decades of refugee protection as a British value to keep upholding today https://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2012-06-01/refugees-celebrate-jubilee/
