OH MY GOD let's get several things straight about Brexit

[haele]

112. Good point except English haven't had an indigenous population since the 300's.

The Picts were the last truly indigenous people with their own unique "English" culture. All other populations have been diluted and their cultures impacted by Euro-centric patrons, colonial imports, or invaders
England has always been a scattered patchwork of populations based on privilege, conquest or colonialism. The current typical English citizen has a culture that is a hodge-podge mix of French, Danish, Norwegian, Saxon, Celtic Welsh, Gaelic Irish or Scots, and Central Asian (British Empire, what?). Oh, and a really warped view of class privilege and "home", where everyone had to have someone below them on the social scale if they mattered, and some benevolent squire, mayor, or factory owner would take care of them if they were just loyal enough...
It's always been immigrants that were the bad guys, also. There's always been complaints about immigrants and "travellers" (especially the native English Gypsy or Tinker populations) throughout "English" history.
English "culture" is just like American "culture". It's the culture of a policy of colonialism and invasions. Unless you can find an isolated native tribe, local English and American culture is a function of "whatever feels good or works out for the people in charge".

Not at all a homogenous culture as the Mayan, Tibetan, or even Latvian cultures are.

I've seen what "cultural" protection in the US looks like. Provincialism and Class Protectionism have very little to do with culture.

Haele