Warwick Wrote:
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> East Indians speak the Queen's English better than
> the English.
>
> The WORLD's Lingua Franca is English
>
> The Americans fought for Independence yet are
> obsessed with the House of Windsor
>
> etc etc
>
>
> for myself..
>
> Born Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 1950. Within the
> sound of the Bow Bells
>
> Yet when spending weekends there while living in
> Coventry, what I remember most is the Indian Women
> in their Saris
>
> It truly is a CommonWEALTH of Cultures
>
> Warwick


Have you ever read Edward Rutherford's "London"? It traces English history from the ice age and concludes that London is the preeminent melting pot. What makes London London is all the people who came there from every corner of the planet.