> Copenhagen, by comparison, was about eighty-five percent native Danes in 2000, and is still three-quarters today. Enough of a foreign presence to feel cosmopolitan, but still distinctly Danish in all of its ways. Equally statistically evident on streets and bike lanes.
> But I think, what would Copenhagen feel like, if only a third of it was Danish, like London? It would feel completely foreign, of course. Alien, even. So I get the frustration that many Brits have with the way mass immigration has changed the culture and makeup of not just London, but their whole country.
I don't really see the racism.
It's been made taboo for "white" people to say that they'd prefer to remain the majority within their nations but this is pretty much the norm everywhere on the planet.
People want to be surrounded by familiar people: Speaking the same language, having the same broad values, and so on. These are the things that define a nation.
I find it especially obnoxious when people say this is about "hating brown people." Ask someone like DHH whether they'd feel the same if London were to become majority Russian or Spanish and I'm pretty sure they'll say of course. Can't read their mind but that's how it seems to me.
I'm a half Turk half German who looks like an Arab by the way. Before someone jumps to the usual stereotyping and calls me a nazi. (Not directed at anyone. It just happens a lot when you say you don't think DHH etc. are racist.)
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