more just that I live here and I didn't help/notice the way things must have become
See, I come from this from a different angle.
F*ck them. Whay should people have to make other people feel part of the community? Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying people have any right to be hostile to minority groups - far from it.
What should happen is people should just be regarded as person a / person b / person c etc. not white person a / asian person b / chinese person c like there are at the moment.
Why should the emphasis be on the community helping new comers fit in? Why don't newcomers fit themselves into the community?
It's not my responsibility to go house to house making sure people are OK. Nobody ever did that for me or anyone I know, so why should it start happening now? I'm not saying ethnic groups should stop practicing their culture, religion etc. but I am saying they shouldn't move to the UK and still act exactly as they would if they hadn't emmigrated (AND, teaching there kids that's the way to behave instead of integrating).
People may say this is a racist attitude. It is not. Also, I would say being able to nerf any critiscism with the "racist" card has got us into this mess. I have zero time for cockknockers like the BNP, but if problems exist within certain communities, the debate about what to do should be held in society overall because leaving it to within the community obviously hasn't helped. This goes for problems in the white community too (something needs to be done about little chav thugs roaming the streets) but at the moment white folks aren't strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up public transport.
Wow, this is a long comment. Sorry for ranting Ms. Orange.
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Date: 2005-07-13 10:27 am (UTC)See, I come from this from a different angle.
F*ck them. Whay should people have to make other people feel part of the community? Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying people have any right to be hostile to minority groups - far from it.
What should happen is people should just be regarded as person a / person b / person c etc. not white person a / asian person b / chinese person c like there are at the moment.
Why should the emphasis be on the community helping new comers fit in? Why don't newcomers fit themselves into the community?
It's not my responsibility to go house to house making sure people are OK. Nobody ever did that for me or anyone I know, so why should it start happening now? I'm not saying ethnic groups should stop practicing their culture, religion etc. but I am saying they shouldn't move to the UK and still act exactly as they would if they hadn't emmigrated (AND, teaching there kids that's the way to behave instead of integrating).
People may say this is a racist attitude. It is not. Also, I would say being able to nerf any critiscism with the "racist" card has got us into this mess. I have zero time for cockknockers like the BNP, but if problems exist within certain communities, the debate about what to do should be held in society overall because leaving it to within the community obviously hasn't helped. This goes for problems in the white community too (something needs to be done about little chav thugs roaming the streets) but at the moment white folks aren't strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up public transport.
Wow, this is a long comment. Sorry for ranting Ms. Orange.