What do think about all the foreigners in the UK? These ones specific:  Nigerians, East Europeans, South Africans and Australians
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Personally, I would welcome a more multi-cultural Britain. It might shake some people out of their island mentality.\nI also think that seeing as we have a less than perfect record when it comes to the commonwealth and the empire, the least we can do is accept some responsibility and share some of our wealth and good fortune.
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being british i have to say  im not at all racist..i dont think that anyone shud be judged on their nationality.. i take people for who they are ..not where they come from ...their place of origin does not ..and shud not affect the rights they have when they are resident in this country .. i think  that we are very easy going here and although there is some racism here.. it is a minority..we are a very multi cultured country ..and overall get on quite well ...with a good sense of humour ...that singles out no particular race .. just  all done in fun ...we especially laff at ourselfs alot...after all laughter is a good remedy for bad times ...
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Oustanding question! You probably wont see many liberal viewpoints here. In response, YES. People seem to want to settle with their own racial background. There is very little real diversity and this is what most people have problems with. It is these (remember that guy having a go at John Reid) 'Muslim areas' where tension between in the indiginous population and within themselves will develop. Lets just cast our minds back to july 7th 2005.  Apparently those guys were 'british'. Im sure the 52 people on those trains and buses would question that. That is merely a prelude to what could be a regular occurence. And yes it will become like baghdad. with different 'muslims' fighting amongst themselves. Meanwhile all the anglo saxons will be recreating histroy and fleeing to Australia and the USA. This is a bad time and it needs to be addressed aggresively if needs be. \n\nYou want to play on our pitch? \nYou play by our rules.
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I am English and completely agree. They are a disgrace and should be dealt with severely.
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ARE YOU REALLY GREEK BECAUSE YOU JUST INSULTED NOT ONLY OTHER "FOREIGNERS" BUT YOUR PARENTS AND RELATIVES,YOU LITTLE RETARD.\n\nPEOPLE ON HERE COME FROM ALL OVER. IN CASE YOU FORGOT, THERE ARE SIX BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AT LAST COUNT,2 BILLION OF WHOM SPEAK A VARIATION OF CHINESE AND INDIAN DIALECTS. ONLY SOME 20% OF THE WORLD SPEAK ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE IF NOT LESS THAN THAT. \n\nARE YOU COMPLAINING BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEEM TO LEARN OR YOU DONT WANT TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE? LET IT GO AND BE HAPPY WE "FOREIGNERS" DON'T MIND THAT THE OTHER YAHOO SERVERS/PORTALS ARE NOT AVAILABLE YET.BECAUSE ONCE THEY HAVE, YOU WILL ACTUALLY MISS THEM BECAUSE IF AMERICANS AND BRITS ARE THE ONLY ONES LEFT ON HERE, NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE A COHERENT SENTENCE.\n\nDUMB RETARDED BIGOT
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I agree, they're some of the nicest folks around.  And they seem pretty hardy too.  They'd have to be considering the ins and outs of their heritage and all the struggles they've faced.\n\n\nMore details:\n\nI think I stumbled across something here I didn't know anything about.  I was commenting more on the historical sense of things.  But this is all hilarious good fun and makes me like the Welsh, and all the rest of you even more.  And yeah, I'm an American girl who has no idea about some of your cultural frames of reference but hey, I'm still enjoying this!  :))))
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I could easily agree with you on some places. British rule always made sure that things in these countries ran much smoother and the British protected those people from outside threats and civil enemies. And it is weird how all these 3rd world countries all seem to be packing old, rusty kalashnikovs... that last bit really made me laugh. One of the things I'll have to remember!!!! But now they are all moving into England and god help anyone who speaks up against them, because "it would be un-PC".
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It's alright to have a couple foreign players, but at a certain point you look at the name "ENGLISH Premier League" and you have to wonder if any of them are English at all.  Its a tough issue because on one hand I should be happy to see a well played game of football, but on the other hand, if I want to watch English teams, shouldn't the players on them be from England?
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I totally agree!\n\nWhy are we letting people in to this country to just sponge off the welfare, cause trouble and get freebies!\n\nI think that people from other countries should be welcomed if they bring something to the country... i.e JOBS! \n\nHow many unemployed people are in this country? How many single mums are ignored for the fact that illegal immigrants get their first pics! it is disgraceful!
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I perfectly Understand im from england, and so many fo my friends want to leave england becuase they say its crap and full of immigrants and crime and theres no jobs and the weather is horrible.\n\nIm not exactly the msot patriotic person on the plaent by i love my country im proud to be english so why isnt anyone else??
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If you saw how long I spend on some of my answers you might think I must come from a different country according to your statement. (Or maybe you'd just think I was a bit slow witted? Ha ha!) But guess what, I'm a US citizen.\n\nOne of my humbling moments as a US citizen came when I was living in Japan. I was at a business meeting with Japanese, Australians, English, and a couple of US citizens. One of the Australians started doing an impression of US citizens. She started talking loudly, smiling broadly (showing a lot of teeth), and gesturing. I thought it was funny. The citizens from other countries thought it was even funnier. I might imagine the whole world enjoying such a joke on US citizens, but that would be another stereotype--on the other citizens of the world.\n\nI think people will see what they want to see--especially if they are looking for it. For instance, "Is it true that Americans answer immediately, without giving it much to think about?" \n\nIt's easier for people to think in stereotypes. People think like that to make sense of their world. I'm not saying it's a terrible thing. However, they may be missing interaction with people they might actually enjoy spending time with. Such separation doesn't bring the world closer to peace. It's also rather lonely and boring don't you think?
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So you don't know any white british people who work???\n\nSorry but although I do agree with you opening sentiment about 'foreigners' being the backbone of the econony and that you are having a dig at the red top tabloid readers' ingnorance and generalisation of 'foreigners' motives and involvement in british society, I have to pull you up on the blatant hypocrisy of your question.\n\nWhy complain about being 'generalised' in the public domain when you have really made the most rediculous overgeneralisation of white british people.\n\nYou are doing race relations no good in this country if you resort to tit for tat accusation. Opinions are polorised enough without stiring the big racial pot which is about to explode in this country.
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I disagree with the person that said move to Europe, I mean racism is everywhere no matter what country no matter what ethnicity. Yes us black folks get it thrown in our face everyday but F*** em' life goes on you know, "what they eat don't make us sh**. like jay z said, ain't no love in the heart of the city, ain't no love in the heart of town"  Did you know in the history of television, in europe 2 weeks ago, a news station hired a black broadcaster. Now how long has the tv been around. We may have a few more oppurtinities, but not much. Just do what we all do, keep ya head up and try to maintain, Like Donny Hathaway says " Take it from me someday we'll ALL be FREE!"
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Suzanne,\n\nBe careful with your logic here.\n\nThere are Eastern Europeans living in the UK.\n\nOf all the people living in the UK, some are theives and some are scroungers. Some Eastern Europeans here are theives and scoungers.\n\nThat doesn't make [b] ALL [/b] Eastern Europeans living here thieves and scroungers.\n\nYou may have seen on the news that there is a lot of fuss about the Home Office not being able to find ex-covicts who should have been deported or illegal aliens.\n\nYou will have also seen the fuss about wanting to introduce identity cards and a national database of DNA, fingerprints and photographs.\n\nMost of us Britains seem to want the deportation of illegal aliens and foriegn criminals - but are against the idea of ID cards and a national database.\n\nThe simple fact is that unless the government authorities have a way of determining who should be here and who shouldn't - then they can't deport them. \n\nUntil there is a national database and an ID card system it is a long and arduous process to weed out those who are not here. However, the implications to our privacy and the opportunities to abuse the information are huge.\n\nI'd rather have some illegals wandering the country than risk a government abusing information held about me.\n\nCertainly, I am happy to accept people who come to this country, work hard and contribute to British society.\n\nI'm just going to have to accept that those who are unwilling to contribute are going to take a while to identify and send home.
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First, who is the "Average" South African? With apartheid ended, does it remain that "economically" the "white" middle or upper class citizen is still considered to be the "average" or "typical" citizen.\n\nBy the way, I am not some radical, militant. I'm an old-fashioned WASP (that's white, Anglo-saxon, Protestant!)\n\nNow, to the question!\n\nAny population group (whether it be South African or Icelander's) can benefit from the internet as it brings them into a global community that increases them intellectually, socially and economically!\n\nI have only to look at the "dumb" position that my own government took around 30 plus years ago when we refused to acknowledge the People's Republic of China. I still don't agree with their system of government BUT how can you pretend that a third of the earth's population doesn't exist? Now that's dumb!\n\nAnyhow, growth in this world depends on "Information" and knowledge. Hence the term IT (Information Technology). GO South Africa!!!
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i think that our character is basically tolerant, humourous, religiously and democratically apathetic and yet, strangely, determined.  i think that if our status quo is threatened our innate ( as much as a hybrid race can have an innate character ) but well hidden belicosity emerges.  things that provoke us are political and religious extremism ( including that dumbass american evangelical christianity ), aggression of any sort by others and challenge to our common belief in freedom of speech.  we're alright really, doing fine.  some may hate us at the moment but we'll win them round .  i'm proud to be british.  proud to be english as much as that matters and, here's where i'll lose even some of my fellow english... proud to be european.
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Devastating\nYou cannot imagine the amount of Nigerians who stow away, enter illegally intocountries all owver the world and bring ill repute to their country\nThey smuggle drugs intotheir country, smuggle all sorts of merchandise including Ghanian women and it is too bad for the Nigerian economy and Nigerian pride.