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How Britain Slowly Lost its Identity (1950-2020)
Yuutube ^ | December 16, 2025 | UK Nostalgia

Posted on 12/23/2025 8:11:48 AM PST by Fiji Hill

For many of us who grew up in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, Britain had a distinct identity—one rooted in tradition, culture, and a shared sense of belonging. But over the past few decades, that Britain has slowly transformed, replaced by a new, complex reality. From the days of neighborhood corner shops, Sunday roasts, and traditional family values, to a country that now feels more fragmented and uncertain. This video takes you through the journey of how Britain’s identity evolved and why so many of us feel like we're losing touch with the country we once knew.

The slow disappearance of what we once held dear—community bonds, shared cultural practices, and even food traditions—leads us to ask: What does it mean to be British today? 🇬🇧 Gentrification, multiculturalism, globalization, and changes in media and education have all played their part in this transformation. From the first waves of immigration to the rise of individual national identities within the UK, we explore what’s been lost and gained. Are we really witnessing the end of an era, or is Britain simply becoming something new?


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KEYWORDS: 1984; 1984ishere; britain; diversity; england; globalism; multiculturalism; orwell
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This 16-minute video examines how traditionalist and homogeneous culture of Britain in the middle of the last century was replaced by multiculturalism, globalism and wokeness. What really struck me is the transformation of British education. In the schools today, traditional British history has been replaced by curricula emphasizing "diversity" and global perspectives. Modular approaches have replaced continuous historical narratives—a unit on the Tudor dynasty might be followed by one on the US Civil Rights movement. The British Empire is taught through the perspective of exploitation, and students are taught to be ashamed of being British rather than proud. Traditional subjects like Latin and classical history have been replaced with media studies and other subjects emphasizing woke values. Education is now more about facilitating self-expression rather than transmitting knowledge.

The same sort of thing is happening here in the USA.

1 posted on 12/23/2025 8:11:48 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
The same sort of thing is happening here in the USA.

Everywhere in the West.

So far Easterm Europe seems to be doing okay but they are only a generation behind.

2 posted on 12/23/2025 8:13:17 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Everywhere with a Deep State.


3 posted on 12/23/2025 8:14:25 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: MinorityRepublican

> So far Easterm Europe seems to be doing okay … <

Yep. But Hungary, Poland, etc. are all just one bad election away from disaster. That’s my fear.

Consider the very effective Hungarian border fence. Because of it, there are no Muslim terror attacks in Hungary. But will that fence still be maintained if Orbán’s party loses an election over the price of potatoes, or some other silly thing?

Sorry for the pessimism there. It’s gonna be a tough road ahead.


4 posted on 12/23/2025 8:22:50 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: mewzilla

(Everywhere with a Deep State.)

Yes. Everywhere with a Godless
Globalist New World Order Deep State.


I did Nazi see Jackboot Sir Keir Starmer
becoming a Tyrannical Globalist 🚨🚨

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5 posted on 12/23/2025 8:28:52 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Fiji Hill

I lived in the UK during the late 70s. There was a great contrast between Hindi and Muslim immigrants.

The Hindus did integrate into British Society. Their children rapidly integrated. The Hindus (mostly Indian) keep much of their traditions alive, their children not as much. Economically the Hindus helped Britain as they with rare exceptions were not on welfare.

The Muslims (mostly Pakistani) do not integrate into British Society and are a great economic drain on Britain due to the huge numbers on government assistance.

Their are exceptions to my above statements, but rare.


6 posted on 12/23/2025 8:40:36 AM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Fiji Hill
1950?

The Crown sent the best men to die in not one but two bankers' wars prior to 1950.

7 posted on 12/23/2025 8:43:56 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Fiji Hill

On the positive side, the availability of exotic food has increased.


8 posted on 12/23/2025 8:45:55 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Americanization also had much to do with Britain’s loss of identity. For better or for worse, Britain in the 1940s was a very different country. Modern improvements meant a loss of some typically British features.


9 posted on 12/23/2025 8:49:15 AM PST by x
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To: Fiji Hill

Calling Charles Wesley...


10 posted on 12/23/2025 8:59:51 AM PST by aspasia
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“This video takes you through the journey of how Britain’s identity evolved ...”

Um. Evolved? More like devolved.


11 posted on 12/23/2025 9:04:21 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1997 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Leaning Right

> So far Easterm Europe seems to be doing okay … <

Yep. But Hungary, Poland, etc. are all just one bad election away from disaster. That’s my fear.

Consider the very effective Hungarian border fence. Because of it, there are no Muslim terror attacks in Hungary. But will that fence still be maintained if Orbán’s party loses an election over the price of potatoes, or some other silly thing?

Sorry for the pessimism there. It’s gonna be a tough road ahead.

Which is why E Europe needs to pull out of the Pee-U and join us in a type of “Freedom Marketplace”.


12 posted on 12/23/2025 9:20:10 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: Leaning Right
Sorry for the pessimism there. It’s gonna be a tough road ahead.

I think what needs to happen is for the EU collapse.

Then you'll see nations start to watch out for themselves again.

Maybe not even the EU, especially with what is happening in the UK nowadays.

13 posted on 12/23/2025 9:21:20 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jeff Chandler

“the availability of exotic food has increased”

A lot of this imported stuff is very expensive.

Instead of a trade surplus in food, the US might in the future run a massive trade deficit in food.

And then consider the amount of Corona beer sold in the USA.


14 posted on 12/23/2025 9:40:23 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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“the availability of exotic food has increased”

An Asian market has opened about 10 miles north of where I live.

I’ve never read about many of the things on offer and I have no idea how I might use them.

My area of Florida is becoming like Northern Virginia was in the 1990s.


15 posted on 12/23/2025 9:44:56 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Fiji Hill
They kept the statists in power after WWII.

Because they wanted to keep that feeling of national unity and everyone working together.

That works under genuine hardship and threat.

When imposed for no reason by the government it does not work.

16 posted on 12/23/2025 9:45:47 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: Fiji Hill

bump


17 posted on 12/23/2025 11:58:28 AM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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To: Fiji Hill

Enoch Powell: I TRIED TO WARN YOU!


18 posted on 12/23/2025 12:31:42 PM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NOTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Fiji Hill

You are correct in identifying education as the core if the degradation.

A big factor that the video does not talk about is national depression over empire loss.

The UK in 1912 was THE superpower, occupying nearly a quarter of the world and having under London’s sway a quarter of the world’s population.

By 1970 it was broke, had to beg the IMF and had no empire.

The root cause of that was economic, not military. The UK like other empires, got complacent and lost to its upstart former north American colonies.

Societal shock happened, just as societal shock put native American and Australian aboriginal societies into a spiral of depression.


19 posted on 12/24/2025 1:22:38 AM PST by Cronos
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Eastern Europe is also in trouble. And Eastern Europe means Russian federation, Ukraine and Belarus.

Central Europe is doing ok, but the reason is that unlike western or eastern European countries which had colonies and lost the, the central European countries WERE colonies


20 posted on 12/24/2025 1:24:39 AM PST by Cronos
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