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[SueEllen]

So nothing since the 60s then?

We have had loads of culture since the 60s.

Ken Loach, Danny Boyle, The Bee Gees, Darcy Bussell, Arlene Phillips, The Queen, Queen, Bowie, Banksy, Damian Hirst, Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, JK Rowling...

Plus we invented pop music genres such as Punk, New Romantics, Trip hop, Grime...

[vetran]

So nothing since the 60s then?

as per my post plenty since then.

I'm struggling to think of recent European culture that has spread through the UK.

Opera is a little old hat. Tacitus & plato long in the tooth.

I suppose we had Mein Kmapf & Kraftwerk. + Nena!

Voltaire and Foie Gras maybe

[DodgyAgent]

I'm struggling to think of recent European culture that has spread through the UK.

here's one Culture of Entitlement | Welfare State

[Fronttoback]

The most recent notable popular culture in the UK was rave culture in the early 90s. Since then, nothing.

Italians come to the UK and start having family get togethers with 20 people eating around a table. The family has disintegrated in the UK, thanks to feminism.

[NotAllThere]

Still using racism to kill the debate about immigration ?

...Said DodgyAgent neatly using racism to kill the debate about immigration.

When they came out with this one, about not making it easier for 2nd generation immigrants to get passports

they were accused of being racist by having a couple of darker skinned hands reaching out. Personally, I thought it was a bit unfair - I think they were being racially inclusive.

[shaunbhoy]

I'm struggling to think of recent European culture that has spread through the UK.

The combustible rucksack was very big back in '05.

[d000hg]

I'm struggling to think of recent European culture that has spread through the UK.

Europe is a mess of very disparate cultures (even assuming you mean the EU specifically). Did you mean "I'm struggling to think of recent culture from any European countries that has spread through the UK?"

[vetran]

Europe is a mess

FTFY

[bobspud]

You are doing what dodgy agent said in a different thread. You are making a point about yourself here, not about UK culture per se.

Culture has to be collectively enjoyed by a society, by definition. And what you have in the UK is drinking, football (mass commercialism destroying another working class culture) and watching TV. All the other things are minority interests, so they are not culture.

But carry on quoting minority pastimes to validate your own status.

No im saying that after it happens, the only reason the rest of us get to hear about it is because someone intelligent writes about it and it becomes history.

Culture happens from allotments to brothels it involves drugs, beer and sobriety.

Being in or out of the club has no baring on it being culturally interesting.

My family were from the 18th century east end and I had family members that were variety hall performers. Loads of culture in that but no one knows because they were dens of iniquity. We also have a prominent architect that built a famous London landmark. So both ends of the spectrum..

The most recent notable popular culture in the UK was rave culture in the early 90s. Since then, nothing.

Italians come to the UK and start having family get togethers with 20 people eating around a table. The family has disintegrated in the UK, thanks to feminism.

No my family always sat down for the full family lunch. It didn't take an Italian to start that.

We have become more atomised for sure but just as much culture is available if you want more than a Stella.

The difference is a great number of our society have only ever wanted a beer and sex regardless of the century.

[Flashman]

Europe is a mess of very disparate cultures (even assuming you mean the EU specifically). Did you mean "I'm struggling to think of recent culture from any European countries that has spread through the UK?"

Café culture? Where various men originating from the Balkans gather to sit down all day outside a café smoking ciggies, chatting and making deals on their mobile phones?