Do You Believe in the 'Great Replacement Theory'?

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In England (by which I mean 'England', not 'Great Britain', not 'The United Kingdom'), the percentage of children classified as 'White' in the pre-school bracket on current official Department for Education stations is only a few percentage points lower than the percentage of 0-4 year olds classified as 'White' at the 2011 census. The percentage of children in that bracket who are classified as 'White British' is still around about two-thirds or so as well. And then we note something else: that the tendency in British society (both presently and in the past)* has been for people of mixed heritage to be absorbed into the mainstream rather than the other way around, and it's the 'mixed' category that has grown the most in DofE stats.

_{*The discovery that there was a fair-sized Black minority in Britain during the 18th century always raises an obvious question: 'what happened to them?' And while half the answer is that 'many left for Sierra Leone', the other half is that 'the rest were ultimately absorbed into the rest of the population without much trace'.}