AHC: Least European Britain

Sorry if I'm focusing on something that is relatively minor in the scheme of the question, but I think it's important to note that immigration to Europe from outside Europe has become very common in recent years and the UK is not unique in this regard. High immigration (often from other continents) is a commonality of all developed countries (the only exception I can think of is Japan, which is suffering a result).

I was imagining the number as "total number of immigrants 1947-present" rather than the current foreign-born population, but we seem to agree on this point. I believe the numbers for Canada and Switzerland are fairly low, but I may be wrong. It's also complicated by the fact that Irish immigration to Britain, or Swedish immigration to Norway would seem different to say, Polish immigration to Britain due to the cultural and linguistic divergence, even if it all goes down as EU.

As for whether Japan is suffering, I'd argue they have a rather effective low crime, low unemployment, high living standard society. The economic problems they do have are mainly from central bank mistakes. But I guess that's for political chat.
 

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But the Neanderthals are the most European of the hominids. Technically more European than European Homo sapiens because they evolved in Europe and never left it.

The OP treats Europeans as a sub-class of whites.
What's the highest percentage of non-white, or at least non-European, people that Britain can have by the 21st century?

As Neanderthals are a different species, they are definitely not homo sapiens, let alone “white”.
 
How about a different colonial attitude, with class distinctions being more important than racial ones, though certainly with heavy condecension towards non-whites. If Indian and African nobles begin to move and accept positions in British colonial circles, they can ascend the ladder to British imperial power. Through simple mathematics, the movement of titled nobility from Africa and India to the more politically important Britain would also involve the movement of aides, wives, servants and other hangers on, representing significant population shifts from the colonies to Britain. This could lead to the potentially interesting situation, where the Home Islands are far more tolerant of non-whites than their colonies. Also, members of the House of Lords could end up with very interesting titles from all over the Empire as the aristocracy of the Home Islands marry into the wealthy aristocracy of the Empire.
 
The UK has a pretty average amount of immigration for a European country. Off hand, I am pretty sure France has more immigrants.

Not sure about it, but even if it's the case the situation is really different. I would say that immigrants in France are "turning" more quickly from [Random] culture of France to French culture influenced by [Random] culture than in Great-Britain.
 
Not sure about it, but even if it's the case the situation is really different. I would say that immigrants in France are "turning" more quickly from [Random] culture of France to French culture influenced by [Random] culture than in Great-Britain.

It really depends on the particular immigrant group. The Poles in Britain are integrating extremely quickly, for instance, while 50% of Pakistani males marry a bride from the subcontinent, despite being here for about four generations now.
 
I prefer this Victorian pseudo-science geneticist explanation, for Ireland at least.
It allows me to legitimately play the race card :p
What. Did you just call modern paleoanthropology and the view that humans came from Africa, 'pseudo-science'? :confused:
 
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