Humour is about exaggeration. But it’s not exaggeration unless there’s at least a modicum of truth. So yeah, I’m trying to be funny. But take me at least a little bit seriously.

Actions have consequences. So does abstinence. It’s not that white men are impotent, or white women infertile. It’s just that they’ve lost interest in unprotected sex. As it happens, unprotected sex is the leading cause of offspring. So whities are getting old, and there ain’t no youngins to take their teeth out.

French and Italian are still what they were. But British cuisine is an oxymoron. As is German. Hence the entirely justified and to-be-expected browning of Europe, the UK, the Antipodes, Canada, and the US.

Though Spain would love to keep them, Spain, Italy, and Greece are for landing, not staying. They want to go north to where they already have friends. They’re largely ghettoised in France. But it’s curry cheek to jowl down the high street and strasse. There’s still Somerset and Devon, but not on the weekends. In short, it’s all gone south, which is to say the south has come north. Not a great loss for Canada, the US, and the Antipodes, since they never had a culture to lose. But devastating for Canadians, Americans, Aussies and Kiwis who’ve discovered too late they’ve squandered their vacation seeking the ‘authentic’ British or French experience.

The problem isn’t skin colour. It’s culture. White people have had centuries to learn how to pick up after themselves. Well, maybe not so much Americans. But Africans and South Asians not at all. So what once was a park becomes a garbage dump. And to suggest they might adopt at least some of our ways is blatant, albeit unsurprising, racism.

That’s not the rhetoric. It’s the sentiment. One can self-censor the former, but not the latter. And it’s festering. Especially, but not exclusively, in the UK, Germany, and the US.

There is no counter-rhetoric. What could one say? But there are counter-sentiments. That is, one can’t deny the browning is taking place, both in complexion and way of life. But one can, and many do, welcome it. And the divide has gone tribal. Or maybe the two tribes spawned the divide. Either way it’s become right versus left, woke versus un-, Democrat versus Republican, such that to break ranks on the immigration issue – or even to nuance it – is to break ranks tout court. Not unlike the term denialism – where to deny any of it is to deny all of it – if not all Arabs are child rapists you’re soft on crime. Or, as Abraham Lincoln might flip it, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fascist [sic] than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

My own view – and yes, I know it’s banal – is that not unlike AI, there’s no stopping the browning of the West, both racially and culturally. Fight it or embrace it, but be selective. Curry tastes better than grits, and sitar sounds better than bagpipes. But garbage belongs in a bin, and Chinese opera isn’t. Opera, that is. Jews can’t cook. Arabs can. Arabs can’t tell a joke. Jews can. Leave the shit but take the good stuff. Cultural appropriation is win-win. Well, except for rolled oats in sheep gut. The Scots have much to answer for.

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