It’s not about superiority of cultures. I do not believe any particular way of life is superior to another.
But if you look at basic principles such as attitude to litter and littering for instance, just as one simple basic example. You wouldn’t have to enforce laws in the 70s or 80s in the UK with regards littering. It simply wasn’t done and it simply wasn’t acceptable. Today, there are so many who do not actually know that just casually rolling down your winder as you drive along, and tossing out empty cans or bottles or other rubbish, is not right!
There is nothing wrong with cultural influences, new culinary experiences, learning new languages etc. But ‘when in Rome, act like the Romans’ really should be the principle applied in each and every country, with regards basic ways of living.
If undefined, each country should seek to define some very basic principles e.g. secularity of the state, should apply to all who come in to dwell in a country. Intolerance is at an all time high today, because of ill-conceived concepts that seek to abandon ways of life in the name of being welcoming, whereas, the impact is actually the opposite. I am not saying some haters won’t continue to hate regardless, but you have a significant opportunity to limit intolerance and hate to an exceptional handful, if all-comers seek to imbibe the way of life of where they go, as opposed to trying to create mini enclaves to carry on living as they would where they were prior to arrival.
Not suggesting that people do away with their culture when they move elsewhere. It is about embracing, respecting, understanding and adopting the local culture and societal requirements of the countries people move to. It should be similar to cars: you wouldn’t fill a diesel car with petrol just because your previous car was a petrol one would you? You put the appropriate fuel in the new car, but it doesn’t mean you have to rip the seats out!
Significant mistakes – many of those are now impossible to correct – over the years and have ended up in the boiling pot situation we now have, with intolerance and populism now at an all-time high and we now have societies where we are prepared to spend staggering sums of money to kick people as a preference to spending a lot less to welcome them in! But nobody is prepared to listen to the reasons why many say they have had enough and are embracing hate & intolerance. Yes, it is perhaps too late to fix all the issues, but we should start by trying to bring in the principle of retaining and maintaining the British way of life in the UK, with all those coming in, being required to embrace the British way of life, so we all pull together in the same direction