ascan wrote:
Anubis wrote:
Agreed. Racists are on the wrong side of history.
I think Anubis has just got a new job working for local government and been through the mandatory diversity-awareness indoctrination.
Am I wrong?
Thus far you haven't made any correct statements.
How hard is it to believe that people can be of such opinions without indoctrination?
I've seen alot, and history tells us that racism is often incited as a means of oppressing others, or a defence mechanism when you feel threatened or discontented. You have to try and assert your own cultural/racial/national superiority in order to justify your continued dominance.
In this case, you feel threatened because you believe your homeland, which you feel very strong ties to, is under siege by immigrant invaders. That's understandable. However, you aren't exactly being kicked out. The bigger problem is overpopulation, not which ethnicity or mainstream religion people belong to. As far as the population is concerned, you're deluding yourself if you think that non-Europeans are going to become the majority in the forseeable long-term.
We do normally think of Britain as belonging to white European peoples, but Britain was built on immigrants, just as many other nations were. Why are people so hostile now? Mainly because of the distance and large cultural gaps, I suppose.
Ethnic West European immigrants wouldn't raise an eyebrow, would they? They might be able to settle well in Britain and people wouldn't care much if they became a large minority.
You're afraid that white people will become a minority and your own culture will be displaced. The first won't happen for a long time if ever, and British culture is only being mildly neutralised because of a demoralised populace and government feebleness. The lack of cohesiveness and weakened sense of nationality is due to internal, not external issues.
So, we do have a somewhat divided society. I've seen myself the way that ethnic groups are divided. Immigrants will often keep to themselves, true. One problem is that we don't acknowledge this; we sidestep the issue. Tradition often dictates that Middle Eastern immigrants adopt cultural practises which are alien to mainstream British culture(such as hijaab, different cuisine, different traditions). You see Muslims stay together in tightly-knit communities where they can feel united. Why does this happen, I wonder? Mainly because traditional Islam is excluded from many institutions, and those which feel more loyal to their religion or homeland are more likely to stay in such communities, whereas immigrants set on building a new life and becoming British citizens - often younger people with less cultural bias and fewer ties to established subgroups, may integrate flawlessly.
I think it's also hard for immigrants who come here to keep their homeland culture intact. If you've read around you might know that older, first generation immigrants who have children struggle to keep up traditions outside of their urban communities, whilst facing discrimination from suspicious Ethnic Anglo-Saxons. It works both ways, in a sense.
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