ronstern, your posting method is really confusing. Can't you post in the white bit?
But in answer to what I think is your question, the UK is an example of successful multiculturism. Over thousands of years up until 1100 it has accommodated pictish, celtic, roman, angle, saxon, danish, norwegian and french invasions. Since then it has absorbed jewish, french (again, and again) negro, asian (brown and yellow) and a variety of europeans. At each stage concern has been raised about foreigners coming in, and there have been massacres, riots and deaths, but by and large wave upon wave of migrants have been accommodated and Britain would not be the country that it is without them.
And by and large Englishness has been maintained. I suspect that in fifty years time Britons will look back with amusement at how at the turn of the century there was so much fear about islam. A couple of generations of living in a freer society will whittle away most of the constraints islam places upon its adherents. A more mature islam will emerge, in a lot shorter time that it took Christianity to mature from its era of total female submission, child marriages, burning of apostates, blind belief in religious dogma against all the scientific evidence and war upon other religions (including its own - just like shiites against sunnis).
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