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Originally Posted by jaysay
They won't touch it with a ten foot barge poll SJ  irrespective of where the article is from |
Why not, John? Don't tar everyone with the same brush because I doubt we'll get a response from any of your old lot either.
It is of some concern to me that the native English are being discriminated against in their own country to a point where it is more beneficial to be a foreigner. Skin colour probably wouldn't have come into it were it not thanks to a series of increasingly PC measures which have now enabled people to cry 'racism' and take full advantage of the system.
I witnessed first hand in Hammersmith how 'British' was a surefire way of being relegated to the bottom of the housing queue behind Asians. Is it any wonder that British-born people of Asian descent prefer to think of themselves as Pakistani or otherwise?
It's a sticky subject that people avoid talking about precisely so that they aren't considered racist even for the most innoccuous of comments. I'm all for the idea of 'fit in or ship out' for visitors to any country around the world but we're now so far down the path of political correctness that England is becoming a foreign country to the natives.
The world is changing and people are moving about far more than ever before but there is a huge difference between multiculturalism and positive discrimination, something which I absolutely cannot abide. Discrimination by definition means that one group loses out over another so why is one way racist and the other way not?
I wouldn't expect special treatment in any other country, Great Britain really needs to tighten up on that.