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Old 20-08-2006, 09:45   #59
deantwerpen
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Re: One Step Too Far

Hello Cashman

Thanks for your reply. I didn't mean that the term,"Asian", is derogatory. What I meant was that by referring to peoples who originate from the Indian sub-continent as Asian, IMHO gives the impression of a group of peoples separate from the rest of us in the UK. Surely it is their religion which differentiates them from other citizens of the UK, who were also born here.

I think that a start to integration would be if they thought of themselves as primarily British and not a group who are different to the rest of us. Our whole indiginous population is a mix of many people from different countries. Indeed my own ancestors were from Norway, but I think of myself as British, not Norwegian or Norwegian British.

Watching televison recently an American reporter was commenting on the recent bomb attempts in the UK and drew the parallel between the integration of peoples originating from the Indian sub-continent in the US and here. He felt that those in the US, by the time it came to the second generation had integrated much better.

A final comment. The Moslem peoples should stand up and accept their responsibility for their terrorists. To hear their leaders whining that the UK's foreign policy is responsible is a total cop out. If every dis-affected group in the UK started to commit acts of violence it would result in total anarchy. I don't agree with our presence in Afghanistan or Iraq, but it doesn't make me want to blow up my fellow countrymen and women. I would rather change things by democratic means.

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