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The newpaper article “Brexit is entrenching some dangerous myths about ‘British’ culture” written by Afua Hirsch and published in ‘The Guardian’ on 25 May 2017 deals with the position of the British culture to the Brexit and the interior conflicts. In her article Afua Hirsch mentions both sides of the British history, the thoughts of the British culture about Brexit and her own opinion to the situation in Britain. At first she starts with her headline and a subheading, which both attract the attention of the readership by terms like “dangerous myths” and “more hostile and alarming”. She also put a photo next to her text, which has the caption “Britain First and EDL protesters stage a demonstration in London”. It makes clear that there are some interior conflicts in Britain because of the Brexit. Then she starts her text with an introducing comment what shows that she is incorporating her opinion into the article (cf. ll. 1-3). After that she talks about the good history of Britain. She goes on talking about the bad history of Britain to show both of the sides but also to underline that every country has bad events in the past (cf. ll.3-29). She brings this message across by mentioning the example with “Winston Churchill” (l.17f) who killed “savages” in Sudan. In the next paragraph the author add results and statistics from a survey in Britain what is about the opinion of the British about the situation there. It shows that “[…]more than half of British people […]” (ll. 31f) feel hostile to immigrants. Besides, “[m]ore than half of the British people” (ll. 40f) think that immigrants destroy their culture, so they want to get isolated by them to “get [their] country back”. Afua Hirsch put this statistics in her article to give the reader the chance to understand the British people. She also mentions the big call of British against black people in their country (cf. ll. 64ff). At this point she wants her readership to realize the situation in Britain and the thoughts and fears of the British people. However, then she switches to her opinion about the events in Britain. First, she says that every country or every culture is influented by other cultures and traditions. To connect this statement with the British situation, she gives a list of some examples like the “fish and chips” (l. 79) which are from Portugal. With the examples she gains more credibility for her statement and the readership tends to understand her. At the end of her article she makes clear that the British people lost the thread to reality because they demonstrate against immigrants who destroy their culture. She think so because of the fact that every culture is influented by other cultures, so there is no “thoroughbred” culture (cf. 90ff). To summarize, Afua Hirsch wants to show how British people think and feel about the Brexit and added her own position to underline that the hostility of British against immigrants is false because immigrants can not destroy a “thoroughbred” culture since there is no “thoroughbred” culture.