Of British Asians, nearly 10% of the UK population, only 44% said same sex marriage was acceptable according to a poll in 2018 by ComRes on behalf of the British Asian Network. Most shocking, however, of my findings were that these attitudes were no different across ages.

Neither do religiosity, attitudes towards sex before marriage and other socially conservative beliefs.

The rest of the British population saw a liberalisation in values as people
got younger, as you would expect. So clearly something different is going on with the British Asian diaspora compared to the rest of Great Britain.

British Asians have an identity crisis. We are not quite British. We are not quite Asian. As a way to solve this a lot of people, revert back to a caricature of their home culture.

They don’t want to lose their original culture but the only reference point they have to these places are their parents and grandparents who potentially were born as far back as the 1930s in the subcontinent and so have very socially conservative views. In order to reclaim their culture they copy them, leaving them to be even more conservative than the people back in the subcontinent who have moved on in that time and are copying each other as young people.

This also stems from racism and the historical reasons why they’re here in the first place. The racism causes the identity crisis in the first place. If we were just accepted as British, these things would not happen as British Asians could identify seamlessly into British culture and liberalise as a result.

British Asians are also aware we are sons and daughters of the British Empire. It’s difficult to respect a country which you know caused the destruction that resulted in you being here in the first place as immigrants and has mistreated people who look like you for hundreds of years.

But we cannot blame anyone. We have to look at ourselves, and solve this ourselves because we cannot control racists, history or the British establishment but we can control our minds.

As a result of this, we correctly conclude that Western culture is not a superior culture and is not the model to base our lives on. This is true, but the mistake happens when, as a result, to solve this crisis we romanticise the East.

Just because the West is not perfect does not mean the East is. The subcontinent prior to the British Raj was divided and fought amongst themselves and had horrific aspects of their culture too which last until today such as the Hindu caste system or the Islamic imperialists’ forced conversions.

It is stating the obvious but ideas should be taken on the strength of their merit not their origin. In fact, British Asians should feel blessed in being able to take only the best from both cultures.

However a lot of British Asian youth do not think critically and any attempt to liberalise them and convince is met with insults of being a ‘coconut’ or other such meaningless accusations.

The lack of critical thinking, internal community and media silence has led to many British Asians becoming illogical, close minded, insular, backwards and ultimately lost individuals who are not taking ideas on their merit but slavishly create a bastardised desi identity.

There is currently ethnic segregation in Britain and this is not a far right conspiracy. These enclaves formed understandably in the first instance.

When my grandparents came to Britain, they didn’t speak a word of English because they came from rural Punjab with a lack of education. These people just like other working class immigrants, can only get hired in very specific areas and in very specific jobs which hired Indian immigrants.

This is why today cities such as Bradford, Leicester and Birmingham are very diverse cities because you have multiple generations of working class British Asian immigrants who came to originate to work in industries in these cities.

However, in 2024, this is unacceptable and we’re doing this to ourselves. Faith schools are formalising ethnic segregation and need banning. Secular schools do not stop you practicing your religion or push any agenda other than scientific fact and you can practice religion at home.

As I mentioned in my last article, a lot of this number is caused by British Muslims and we should not be afraid to say this. They are by far the most homophobic and the media must stop generalising ‘Asians’ and acknowledge Muslims are by far the most socially conservative (they also tend to be poorer and do worse in education which may explain it).

Although other groups are not now off the hook. Only 55% of British Hindus said same sex marriage acceptable, with 62% for Sikhs.

This is illogical and goes to show what I was saying about a caricature of our culture. These people think they are following the true home culture and being cultured. They don’t even know what they’re talking about.

Neither Hinduism nor Sikhism says anything about rejecting same sex marriage. In fact, if you look at ancient India and history of India, there are physical reliefs which clearly show LGBT people and there are Hindu myths which have clearly LGBT characters.

There are no Sikh scriptures which mention same sex marriage and Sikhism as I understand, seems to essentially say that we are all one human race and was created to reject the bigotry and the nonsense in other religions.

This just shows how backwards and insular the desi diaspora is and we must take responsibility for this.

The most damning and saddest stat of all was the following. Only 53% of British Indians said same sex marriage was acceptable. I looked at what a number would be for Indians actually living in India.

You’d expect this number to be much, much lower. After all, India is a socially conservative country and India is still a developing country with 25% of the population illiterate. Yet the number which accepts same sex marriage in India? 53%.

So British Indians are just as bigoted as Indians back home, despite having a much higher level of education and living in a liberal environment.

The Khalistan movement is most strong in the diaspora. You have Sikhs in Canada and the UK becoming militant of an issue of creating a new state in which all likelihood they will never actually live and romanticising farming of all things. Punjab needs industrialisation self evidently, but after experiencing British racism British Punjabis turn to their older relatives who came from rural farms and identify with this lifestyle which is incompatible with the modern day economic reality.

The terrible tragedy of the 1985 bombing was conducted by Canadian Sikhs, not Punjabi Sikhs.

As I mentioned in the last article, conservative Islam is becoming a problem and British Muslims are hyper conservative, far more so than their US counterparts.

The Hindu right has unfortunately come to Britain. In 2022, the riots in Leicester between Hindu and Muslim groups showed how broken we truly are.

The youth are the ones to blame here. Poorly educated elderly people essentially had no chance to be better. The youth do and they copy their older relatives perhaps as a way to honour them (rightly so, these people were/are heroes who sacrificed everything for us) but the real honor would be to progress.

They came here so we could be better educated than they ever were. That’s the whole reason they came here in the first place to give us a better life.

As I already said we should be taking ideas from everywhere as has happened throughout history.

If you want to look at the history of India going way back to the Indus Valley Civilization, they traded with people as far as the Romans.

The West copied India, which was the more advanced civilisation and now India should be copying Europe who are now the more developed civilization, which wasn’t the case for thousands of years.

It is not morally superior to be more desi. We’re all human beings and we should think for ourselves and be ourselves.

We give back millions in remittances to our home countries, which is something we don’t have to do. We don’t have to prove ourselves to anyone of how desi we are.