Is this a bad thing? - Page 2

White_Knight · 08-09-2008, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by skinny

So what do you suggest we do?

With the so-called third world countries quickly becomming financially strong, there's never been a better time to encourage communities to go back to where they can be with likeminded people.

**Will** · 08-09-2008, 02:53 PM

WK, there's something that has always baffled me about racists like yourself. Why is importing other cultures such a terrible thing? Because let's face it Britain isn't exactly the great hub of culture it used to be.

Do you know what the first thing I get asked in EVERY (and I do mean every) country I go to in the world? It's what football team do I support? And do I like getting utterly shit faced? If we kicked out everyone who's family didn't originate from here, we wouldn't not be better off, we would be even more culturally impotent then we are now.

Bruv · 08-09-2008, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by White_Knight

Brixton is another example, why haven't more black people migrated around the country? Why have they stuck in dominantly black areas?

The Blacks that came to the likes of Brixton were recruited from their homelands by the UK government to work on London transport and other service industries following the war.
Their descendants are now filtering slowly out of the large towns as they become more affluent.
Culturally, they are English, who happen to be black.

The Relic · 08-09-2008, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by White_Knight

If they've maintained their cultural identities and traditions then they are no more adapted to British life then their forefathers. If they're clinging on to their old cultures in this way, then they haven't embraced Britain, so how can it be their home?

My wife is the daughter of a Manchester Jewish mother and an Austrian Jewish father who narrowly escaped the Nazis. Although an atheist in many respects she's Jewish, as it's ingrained into her, and our kids have inherited Jewish characteristics. Yet in all other respects she's English: heck, she used to be a border Morris dancer!

Problems arise only when people wish their imported culture to become the dominant one, as they believe it to be superior in some way.

skinny · 08-09-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by White_Knight

I ask again, if they've maintained their own cultural identities and traditions, and stayed in areas where you mainly only find people from the same other country - Spark Hill springs to mind. How have they embraced Britain?
Brixton is another example, why haven't more black people migrated around the country? Why have they stuck in dominantly black areas?
It doesn't seem to matter how many generations, in fact the more generations there are, the more insular they become as their local population
increases and is swelled further by more immigrants.
Case in point, a while ago another one of the government's crackpot schemes was to encourage more non-white people to visit the countryside. We heard little after that, but it's fairly safe to assume it was another failed and pointless initiative.

You didn't really answer poppys question with this load of waffle did you...If i may... Whitenight how many generations have to live in the UK before you consider them British?