Yesterday evening, I collected over £50 for refugees from people attending a public meeting in Lancaster Town Hall, then joined members of a teaching union for a drink after their AGM in the Borough, also on Dalton Square.
An sf fan sees such activities in parallel with corresponding fictional events, e.g.:
in Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, immigrants to the Solar System colonize Mars, becoming citizens first of the Solar Commonwealth, then of the Terran Empire;
Nicholas van Rijn is unhappy when trade unions gain control of the pension funds of employees who are also Commonwealth citizens;
multicultural Britain, e.g., Lancaster and Birmingham, recalls SM Stirling's multi-ethnic Angrezi Raj and Anderson's multi-species Terran Empire.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Alas, both the US and UK also suffer from some of the stresses, strains, and dangers resulting from trying to assimilate people from very different ethnicities or religions. I don't necessarily oppose such things, only trying to point it comes with "difficulties."
Sean
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