On a scale of 1-10 how scared are those of the UK for their children?
967506
The biggest threat to culture and tradition is not immigration but slavish adherence to the USA. For the last 40-50 years something has encouraged the English to denigrate their own customs and culture, taking the mickey out of folk singing, morris dancing, anything uniquely rooted in our own past. Go into any record store, there'll be a handful of English folk-based CDs probably filed under 'Irish'. There'll be hundreds of C&W discs many by English/Irish/Welsh bands who think their ability to imitate yanks makes them praiseworthy.\nI've been at Fairport Convention (never heard of them? How very English!) gigs where there's been 30 or 40 rastas bopping away merrily, right at the front. Far from being a threat this suggests that cultures are enhanced when shared. Culture is that which rises from within a people not that set of values chosen to enhance a shop-bought lifestyle. English culture is becoming little more than spraying US style graffiti while wearing US branded (though made in China) clothes while drinking imitation lager with US rap/house music on your headphones. If that's the culture that is under threat I want to help threaten it. There can be no pride in  a nation that seems to despise everything that welded it into a nation. It wasn't foreigners who, in  the 40s and 50s, decided Elgar's music was too jingoistic to be listened to by the politically sensitive - it was the English themselves, even though it was also them who attached the jingoistic values to Elgar's music in the first place!\nDon't fear the loss of a culture; do something yourself to maintain it. If you'd sooner go jogging (USA originated) or Line Dancing rather than join a Morris Dancing team then then it's really not English/British culture you are defending is it?
875148
Just a handful.  I would think they know better than to encourage their kids to get mired down in that quagmire.
302015
On people's irrational fears.
534943
I'm scared too,he controls much less than he thinks he does.\nTo say that he would keep our guys over in Afghanistan or another year even if the house voted against sending them for two,isn't dictatorship what they are over there to stop?\nHe doesn't control his emotions,he doesn't have any of his own to control,I saw him take his kids to school,bid them good by with a handshake like he would give Tony Blair.\nI hope he won't last the summer.
149644
I am TERRIFIED of them
818803
I think it varies from different place, like in China they concern alot whether the youth repects their parents and they teach the children that since they're very small.
1152049
I will be when my son comes home from school. I will end up with a house full of kids in England kits all shaking those clapper things and making airhorns go off, like last time...
59465
I have two.\n\nThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself\n\nask not what your country can do for you but what you can for your country
663423
I am so glad you asked this while I'm in a bad mood!! YES! There should be a regulatory body set up incorporating specialists from Social and Child Services as well as the government and Education and Spychriatric professionals. I have grown up in some slum areas of Britain and have known of some outrageously bad parents. Many in the town I live now encourage their children to start breeding young so that the state can provide housing and financial benefits for them. This is not parenting! Many of these parents are ill-educated and have not known full working lives. This is just making the problem worse. The UK has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the EU and second in the world only to the USA. Many of these families have little money as a result of poor education and live on or below the poverty line. In short, I believe that in Britain at least we should set a minimum (maybe a maximum) age limit for parenthood and should restrict family size according to income. Harsh but it would mean there was enough money for each child (in theory). Also I believe that would be parents should attend a "parenting course" teaching them how to look after thier children as well as undergo a full spychiatric review. Previous police convictions should perhaps also be reviewed for more heinous crimes. There are far too many ill-adept parents "teaching" their own children their errors. \n\n**PLEASE NOTE: - VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS WRITING ARE BASED ON MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. I AM NOT GENERALISING AND MEAN NO OFFENCE BY ANYTHING I HAVE WRITTEN.**
1186326
As I understand it. You Brits are scared due to the terror alerts and such. I say Phu**em. Fly your Flag. Get a HUGE Flag and fly it proudly!! Don't let the bastards steal anymore from those of normal thinking and reasoning.
214272
I agree. To me they are even scarier than rapists and murderers. That might sound extreme, but anyone who has children can probably relate to that sick feeling in their stomach they get when thinking about what sick things pedophiles out there are doing to children.
351094
i guess my biggest fear would be losing one of my children or grandchildren
1074365
The original terrified me for a long time.  The first 20 minutes still freaks me out.  Oh...and have you checked the children lately?\n;)
1045510
False premise.  Not 'everyone' is scared ...'.  Come back when you have a real question.\n\nand have a nice day.
582791
No you're not crazy I think the same. People are scared of different cultures and brainwash their children the same way. Its tragic, but you've broken away from that and its definately a good thing.
851930
Yes. Scary isn't it??
761304
Well...it is definately one of the most intrusive states in the world, without a doubt.\n\nI read recently that in the district of Hammersmith there we over 14 different cameras directed at a single roundabout, from police cameras to council fine cameras to business protection cameras.\n\nI would say, that the country is definately more big brother than it ever has been before..especially since the arrival of that paranoid egotistical PM Blair..maybe he is the CEO of endemol!! who knows!!!\n\nSo YES it is becoming a surveillance state, where as before hand there was just the usual security etc that any western state has.\n\nIt makes you wonder and begin to question whether or not it really is a liberal democratic state..or a silent dictatorship...