And my point is that you don't need to know somebody's country of origin, since for the anti-immigrant people it's less about nationality and more about ethnicity.
It's just that the too notions usually coincide (people of different ethnicity would usually either be recent immigrants themselves or children of immigrants).
Precisely, they don't want people that are not historically from Britain to come there from outside the country, and they are not particularly happy with those that already came and have children who've been born in Britain etc either.
(And perhaps even more so about ethnicity it's about culture -- they don't want people carrying a non-traditional British culture in Britain).
>I.e. it's not about immigration, it's explicitly about racism?
Not really, since first racism implies considering the other race inferior (except of merely unwanted in your own country), and second because foreign cultures usually don't grow on a domestic population, but come in trough immigration.
Of course some immigrants can perfectly adopt the local culture, but those are not the kind of immigrants the anti-immigrant people worry about or what they believe is happening in any large number.
>Define "traditional British culture".
Like all cultures it's a constellation of things, not all present or shared at all times by all members of it, that has developed historically.It doesn't have a mathematical style, absolute definition, but one knows it when they encounter it, the same way they can tell Basil Fawlty, tea, shepherd's pie and Punch and Judy are in it and bluegrass, wabi-sabi, yodelling and Takeshi Kitano are not.
Visit 'Britain' - then visit 'France' and you'll get an idea of the panacea of cultures and sub-cultures within those two nations, that are quite distinct from one another, most of which could be very readily labeled as either 'French' or 'English'.
And that would only be two of many nations.
Yes - culture and ethnicity actually exist in the world.
"My point is that you can "see" (guess) ethnicity and "hear" language, but that does not tell you someone's country of origin."
You don't need to know someone's origin to guess at their immigration status.
The UK is not quite America. When you step outside of London, simply one's accent can instantly betrays one's class, and one's regional origin within the UK!
The last time I was in Eastern Europe, people would immediately speak to me in English. They could tell simply by the way I dressed (quite normally) that I was a foreigner. That was pretty weird actually.
There's any doubt, much less "almost certainly not", that people who voted for brexit motivated by immigration in areas with fewer immigrants, did it to keep their areas with fewer immigrants?
That's right. There is almost no chance, in my opinion, that people in immigration-light areas voted to withdraw from the EU because they wanted to have fewer immigrants in those areas, simply because there are almost no immigrants in those areas anyway.
Because for example they can see tons of people of foreign origin in their working class neighborhoods?