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Mark Tapson


NextImg:Poll: UK Gen Z Would Not Fight For Their 'Racist' Country

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The United Kingdom is at a civilizational inflection point. Thanks to a massive disconnect between multiculturalist elites and an indigenous citizenry whose outrage is boiling over, the UK has become a tinderbox over the issue of mass immigration and attendant issues such as skyrocketing knife crime and rapes, as well as freedom of speech threatened by the imminent adoption of Islamic blasphemy laws. And now a new poll reveals, albeit not surprisingly, that UK youth lack the patriotism to fight for their homeland.

The London-based newspaper The Times collaborated with YouGov pollsters to survey a representative sample of adults aged 18-27 on a wide range of subjects from crime to religion, marriage to drugs, and war to mental health. This roughly corresponds to Generation Z, those born from 1997-2012. The poll was designed partly as a comparison to a similar study The Times conducted 20 years ago.

The new survey demonstrates a dramatic decline in belief in the UK as a nation, and in confidence in its institutions. In the 2004 poll, 80 per cent of young people declared that they were proud to be British, while almost 60 per cent said the country was united. They believed the country was forward-looking and tolerant, with clear majorities asserting that Britain was not stuck in the past and was respectful of a variety of views.

By contrast, only 41 per cent of young people today – half as many as 20 years ago – are proud to be British; only 15 per cent – one-quarter as many as in 2004 – believe the country is united. Unlike in the previous poll, 50 per cent believe the UK is stuck in the past.

The Times survey also reveals that young people today are more disillusioned about the country in which they live than are members of older generations. In contrast to Gen Z’s dissatisfaction with their nation, more than half of those aged from 50 to 64 were proud to be British; that figure rises to 70 per cent among those aged 65 and above. Likewise, 47 per cent of Gen Z believes Britain to be a tolerant country, compared to 68 per cent among those aged 50-64 and to 74 per cent among the over-65s.

The study also reveals that the generation represented has little faith in the institutions compared to their predecessors. A mere 11 per cent trust the police if they were the victim of a crime; only 7 per cent would trust the police if they were accused of a crime. A third would not trust the police at all in any of those circumstances.

Significantly, almost half – 48 per cent – of those polled believe Britain is a racist country, up from 34 per cent in 2004 and far more than the proportion who thought otherwise (36 per cent, down from 62 per cent in 2004). Summer Nesbeth, 23, a half-Indian and half-Jamaican model and journalism student from Nottingham, said,

I think it’s wrong and delusional to think that this isn’t a racist country when so many things still happen which are the result of there being a lot of systemic racism.

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We don’t learn about black history but we were built on racism. It’s not right to say we aren’t racist, it might not be blatant but it’s systemic racism and deeply entrenched unconscious bias.

Charlie Sawyer, 25, a digital editor, also believes Britain is racist:

I think a lot of people are scared of that word and do not like to admit that it exists, to admit their participation in it, but if you’re not willing to recognize how as a society we still contribute to systemic racism, casual racism, I don’t think that there’s going to be any progress there.

Perhaps most disturbingly, only 11 per cent would fight for their country; a whopping 41 per cent said there were no circumstances at all in which they would take up arms to defend Britain. The aforementioned model Summer Nesbeth said she was reluctant to fight because the nation does not respect minorities: “Why would I help you, if you don’t want to really help me, and half the time you want to get rid of me, that’s what it sometimes feels like.”

Nicole, a 22-year-old dancer, said about military action: “I can’t kill anyone, I’d probably cry,” she said. “It’s just stupid I think, killing people.” While I don’t think tearful, 22-year-old female dancers should be on the front lines during wartime, Nicole at least needs to grasp the reality that killing people is tragically necessary when they are trying to kill you or conquer your homeland.

Sergeant Varri Murdoch, 28, of the Royal Military Police said, “I joined the military to grasp new opportunities, travel, see the world and make something of my life through a structured career.” Not a word about defending one’s country or way of life.

Senior military and political figures described The Times’ findings as a “wake-up call.” General Sir Patrick Sanders, who was head of the British Army until June of last year, said, “If we aren’t prepared to fight for our freedom and way of life as we have always done, then we will become prey in a world of predators.”

Exactly right. The West is in the fight of its life, and the UK, like Israel, is on the front line of that battle. With a generation or two indoctrinated by multiculturalist intellectuals to believe that their culture is racist and evil, no country has a chance against an imperialistic, uni-culturalist enemy that has zero capacity for self-flagellating doubt.

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