I think it’s a tad unfortunate/amusing that you forgot about that particular ‘white conquest’, when you made your former statement, that’s all; the Afghan/Iarq wars themselves were clearly no laughing matter
When you look at the data it is mostly unskilled/semi-skilled industries in which immigrants do indeed take their jobs/lower wages, hence white working class; as for strain on services, this impacts disproportionately on less affluent individuals (as the highest end users of said services).
If you have an understanding of such services (including 'housing services'), and I do, and you investigate the date, and I have, you find that immigrants do indeed place pressure on services across the board (whilst also easing strain in the labour market in some sectors, it is fair to say)
Or they’re just bigoted/xenophobic, or looking for something to help define their identity/bond them to others, in many cases
Yup, although Egyptians weren’t characterised as being ‘black’/African, as such, more like Eastern
No, but if your objective is unity, rather than division, you have to be careful what you teach kids I suppose, the state education system is geared towards breaking down the idea of ‘us and them’
This is true, and is something that has featured in BBC documentary making in the past decade or so, here in the UK
It’s a difficult one, because the French are a very proud people, and again you are trying to encourage ‘unity’, but it’s a sign of the strength of a nation to be able to admit to, learn from, and teach about, historic mistakes. You don’t do this to appease a particular population, however, you do it with higher ideals in mind
No, I mean people from any other civilisation that demonstrates sufficient ‘friction’ with our own. This includes the Muslim world, for sure, but is not limited to it imo
It is my country, but it is also the country of non-white Britons, and we are a Democracy (the problem being that we have never given a Democratic mandate to anyone to engage in the immigration folly we have seen in recent decades)
They can worry if they like – not sure what your point was/how this is this relevant to our discussion? Were you talking about this in relation to my comments on ‘major friction’ a la inter-civilisational mixing?
Sure it hasn’t totally failed, as in civilisation hasn’t fallen, but you’ll find very few indigenous people in developed nations like France and the UK who feel that it has been a success. It hasn’t been properly thought through, planned, phased in, or managed
Secularism relates to Government, not general public sentiment. I agree that a lot of this (the OP’s experience is indicative of this) is entirely unjustified and repulsive, however the Muslim community
does have real issues to content with (that’s me putting it nicely)
Wow, what a guy
Sound like a great bunch of guys
That wasn’t very Christian of you, you should have ‘turned the other cheek’ and left, the moment the fool opened his big mouth. Also, ladies do not spit, please refrain
I was seeing her back home, whilst at uni, so somewhere between a relationship and a fling. She was half American half Iranian, and quite a character! (Cali cheer chick)
Source?
Kind of just defeated your own original argument there sport
I am? :bhangra: