A recent study commissioned by The Times has suggested that around half of Gen Z imagine Britain is racist and only 11 per cent of the age group could be willing to fight for the country, a big drop from 20 years ago.
Back in 2004, The Times conducted similar research which found that 80 per cent of 18 to 27 12 months olds were happy with their country, while only 41 per cent of that age group would say so now.
So-called experts have claimed that economic pressures are a part of the rationale the young have fallen out of affection with their country. Basic historical knowledge proves this to be false. The working classes of Britain weren’t living lives of luxury within the early 20th century, yet they signed up of their 1000’s when the First World War broke out.
The real issue is culture. If the media and the education system keep telling young those who Britain is an evil and racist country, there may be a great likelihood that a lot of them will imagine it. Who would need to fight and possibly die for a rustic that’s solid as evil and racist?
The ‘woke’ ideology that pushes this viewpoint is doubly poisonous on this front. For those that imagine in it, they might by no means want to fight to defend what they see as racist white supremacy. On the opposite side of the coin, those young white men who’re derided because the source of all evil usually are not going to defend a society that they feel actively despises and demonises them.
The armed forces haven’t at all times helped themselves on this regard. Two years ago, the RAF was forced to pay compensation to applicants who were turned down because, internal emails showed, they were “useless white male pilots”. Why were they useless? Was it that they may not fly aeroplanes? No. They were useless, because they might harm the RAF’s ability to hit diversity targets.
The bottom line is that for people to be willing to fight and die, they should feel they’re a part of something greater. A community, a nation sure together by common custom and interests.
In a multicultural society, that is harder to attain. It becomes almost not possible if in that multicultural society, the bulk indigenous people (the white English on this case) feel like they’re being abused and treated as second class residents in their very own home.
Would a young man from Rotherham or Rochdale wish to fight to defend the system that allowed his sisters or daughters to be raped and abused by migrant communities? Why should he?
Even someone as evil as Joseph Stalin realised that folks will generally not fight and die for abstract ideals. They will, nonetheless, defend a family and nation they like to the death.
Instead of doing every little thing they will to make young people despise their very own country, our institutions and elites should be doing every little thing of their power to make the people of this land love the nation that – for all its faults – has given them a lot. Or we may all soon discover that the choice is far, much worse.
