There is at least one broadcaster and academic who peddles the idea on TV that having a parent or parents born overseas means that someone is somehow less British. When I was at boarding school because my parents worked overseas most of my fellow boarders had parents living and working overseas and very many were in the UK forces. There are masses of British people who have been born overseas to parents working overseas and whose parents were also either born overseas or met and married overseas in one country or another. This has happened for generations. This is how trade has been done worldwide. We don't grow or make everything we need or want in the UK - and we tend to want just about everything that can be imagined!
Travel and communications have changed amazingly just in my lifetime. You couldn't phone many countries in the same way as we can now and my first intercontinental travel as a baby was by boat. Now not only are there non-stop flights on jet planes (prop planes were so much slower and had to stop more often to refuel) BUT we often now don't even need to travel at all and can have Zoom or Teams meetings where we communicate face to face on the internet. |