Firstly, that's one person you know who doesn't like India . Maybe the places he goes to is a shithole but it's not like the whole country is a shithole or that they're all slumming it. When I went there, pretty much did a whole tour of the country - there's shit parts, there's some absolutely amazing parts. Guess what? It's like pretty much any other MEDC! Of course Spain is nice. I like Spain too. What does your friend liking Spain have to do with London being English by culture?
By the way, and it probably doesn't matter to you, but you seriously do sound like Katie Hopkins when you say there's ghettos . Integration has failed in some parts; I don't disagree. But it's kind of hard for people to integrate when they're labelled or targeted in the first place, no, like the aforementioned Hopkins or people like Robinson? Or political figures like Farage or Boris Johnson who clearly spew their bile in their newspaper columns or in promotional campaigns to shit on the minorities? How can people be expected to integrate when they're racially abused or physically attacked just for being a different skin colour ffs? What do you expect them to do, act like it didn't happen and invite the racists in for tea and curry?
I don't agree with the anti-LGBT protests by the way. Think it's a load of old shit and the parents need to get with the times. I think the teacher who's idea it was needs commending for teaching children that other children will be different and that's how it should be. It's not teaching them anything graphic or x-rated. I think the parents are being over-sensitive about it and have taken it too far with these extended protest. When it comes to that kind of integration in to our society, I'll give you that. Taking kids out of school totally just because they have a teacher who decides to preach equality is a dumb move.
I still don't believe Cleese is right in his comments. To say London isn't English any more, for me, is wide of the mark. It's had a diverse culture for several years. Decades, probably. I also don't agree that western culture has retreated or is retreating, either.