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Sounds like Morrissey could also be describing Canada and just about any other part of the British Commonwealth. The problem is that because "we" (i.e., the pricks in government) felt so much guilt in the latter half of the last century over the cultural imperialism committed in the name of the British Empire over the preceding three or four hundred years, "we" decided the gates would be open to immigrants according to "multicultural"--rather than "melting-pot"--criteria. As a result, most of Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, etc. have become "countries of small countries"--often feuding amongst themselves all the way to the human rights tribunals. There doesn't seem to be any central dialects or even languages any longer, and the only thing that holds our countries together is an obsession with--and imitation of--the lowest and most informal of American pop culture. Just hearing Canadian news anchors refer to children as 'kids' and people as 'guys' is enough to make me puke these days. It seems we have lost so much of our central identity, and fallen such a victim to an inept approach to appeasing our guilt, we have actually adopted 'McDonald's culture' (the bottom of our old enemy's cultural barrel) as our only homogenising element! It would be hilarious if it wasn't so frighteningly macabre.
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