Getting upset with the lack of English-speaking people in England.

I also avoid English pubs and cafes when I'm abroad, and always try to order food in the language of the country I'm in.

Actually I do. I always try to learn some basic phrases. I have a number of phrase books. I avoid those in football shirts like the plague because I think it's arrogant. I also avoid English pubs and cafes when I'm abroad, and always try to order food in the language of the country I'm in. I make the effort so I think others should too.

England is more than a rock. It's a lifestyle. A collection of centuries of modern history.

A matter which is sure to be helped by jumping to conclusions about what people are saying - what you said was straw-manning. He's saying if foreigners (one of whom is his girlfriend - note: evidence against his being prejudiced) come to live in England, they should be able to speak English. Not "don't come here if you're foreign".

It doesn't feel like England is actually English any more. At least not in certain cities. I'm surrounded by so many people who don't speak English, it feels like I'm a tourist in my own country. It makes me feel awkward and uneasy. I don't know what they are saying, nor why so many Europeans insist on shouting at each other, whilst the Asians shout at people on their phones. So many people come here and don't make the effort to integrate at all with our society, so subsequently it's getting washed out. England does have a culture, and people who come here should embrace it, not smother it with their cultures from other countries. It's not un-PC to reserve Englishness!

I hate going into a shop and not being understood. I'm English! If you have a job where you are working in England and speaking to English people then you should know English! Why can people like that get jobs when so many of our own can't get them - and no it's not laziness.

It's just really making me upset. I hate the people on here who complain about how **** England is, and have their flags as India or Ghana, but they would never actually live there. If you're English, you're English. If you hate this country, you can piss off.

Unfortunately anonymous because this is spurred on by my girlfriend and her family who keep insisting that I should learn their language. No, you're in England, you learn English!

So what's the preferred prescription?- Quiet distain followed by a hearty course of inertia?.. How quintessentially English Unfortunately such post-war gentility is what's landed us in this mess..

Not everyone is content to live a half-life barricaded in their homes in a half-society, feeling like a foreigner in their own (increasingly segregated) towns and cities.. I'd rather be lumped with the BNP than sit idly by and raise no concerns about the erosion of our social fabric/pressure on services. Multiculturalism and 'immigration policy' are a colossal fail. Even immigrants seem to realise this

The point of this post, and the wider societal picture, is that in sharing the rock unthinkingly we erode the value in residing thereon, at an ever increasing pace

Just because you act a certain way, which you might find "respectful", doesn't mean that other people should too. England is still more than 98% British, it just so happens that the immigrants are concentrated at specific ghettos where it's actually DIFFICULT for them to "integrate" with british society because they're not essentially in britain.

What?

It's a ghetto. No one around there is British. They have no British little to no influence to learn "britishness" from.

There are no ghettos in England.

Do you know what a ghetto is?

People may accuse this post of being ignorant, but its ignorant to assume immigration is so good. If you have a ridiculously high unemployment rate then why let people in if theyll struggle to get a menial job. Thats not racist or nationalist its just common sense. Whether they be white or whether they be black (or in most cases asian)

Not somewhere where people are walking around in £100 Air Max trainers while typing into their Blackberry phones.

Your true colours came out in that last sentence.

Racist pig.

A ghetto is a place where a particular group of minority people are concentrated. It doesn't have to be a criminal or poor neighborhood. The reason it's often not a Buckingham palace is because of segregation.