why cant people state their opnions about people from other countries wihtout being called racist. I hate kosavans! i have so many who live around me and they rape girls and hit them... one punshed me because i wouldnt dance with them.\n\nWhat happend to the day when thatcher was in charge and no foreigners were allowed to sponge off the U.K???\n\nWhy cant we live like the Yanks and kick out the ones who bring nothing to the country!
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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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Yes, there's quite a lot of us from the UK, although we don't all still LIVE there, some of us are in other countries now!\n\nThe UK link at the bottom is a bit of a waste of time ... the questions are still the same .com ones!!!\n\nAnyway, lots of people ask questions like "For Brits only - what does this mean ...??" so just go ahead and post those Qs!!
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RACIST AGAINST US, THE WHITES? hahahhahahahahaha......i dont think so buddy...Racism is everywhere....after reading your question and analysing the answerer response, i find this millenium still having the same problem of racism just like before even though education level has risen up greatly...i guess it has nothing to do with education afterall, i strongly believe tht it all depends on situation, circumstances and society....how is the person raised.....and how you interpretate the world.....\n\nDont be a fanatic, fanatic people created racism and hatred throughout history...we all shld be broad minded and analyse the person who is being racist, maybe they are like tht bcs of a reason....or simply bcs they 'fear'....they have fear and dont accept change....\n\nBut again, let me remind you, we white people havent seen anything about racism...you wanna see racism, be Asian or Black...every single day you will be discrimanated and laughed at....i have seen it wth my very own eyes, and i have cried along wth them.....you havent seen anything buddy.\n\nYou are talking about becoming extinc and our nation being flood at, wht about the native red indians? we slaughtered them like animals making them almost extinc...we did tht so one day the wont step up and ask their nation back....this is the land of the free now, every single race has the same right as long as they become AMERICAN...whether you are black or white or brown or yellow...we are all equal...\nIf you are talking about The Great Britain, they are Great bcs they stole everything from the countries they conquered in the past....not great afterall aight, if their nation is being flooded then its either karma or the price they have to pay for past crimes...\n\nDont say tht they are flooding our nation, the nation is not even ours, now it belongs to everyone...we together helped it build together....
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Although, I was born and brought up in Britain, I feel, increasingly,  that I am living amongst people who's attitudes and views I simply cannot share.\n\nYou refer to people, who, all too easily throw the word RACIST about. This childish name calling, of course, is designed to silence those who hold a differing view. It implies, that if you don't conform to the "right on " political agenda, your opinions are simply beneath contempt. Many people who behave like that simply do not understand that creating a climate of fear, in which people are afraid to discuss perfectly reasonable areas of concern or perhaps express an opinion, leads us toward totalitarianism.\n\nOf course, most people who behave like this are pursuing an ideological agenda, generally associated with left wing or liberal politics. Others, particularly younger people, may feel that it is chic to espouse what seems to be the fashionable view. It's safer that way, your less likely to look stupid and you don't have to think.\n\n I know that your primary concern is - why do people behave like this?\nIf you consider the influences that are operating over people today, particularly younger people, you will be less surprised. eg. We have a government that is radical, if not revolutionary, pursuing a feminist agenda. We have a media which is also doing its level best to indoctrinate its viewers into left wing and feminist politics. The educational system is doing an even better job, and has done so for many years, of indoctrinating students with its feminist and left of centre politics. I could go on and include, The legislature, The public sector, etc.\n\nI suspect that you are concerned about immigration. That subject, above all, invokes the word "Racist" It's that kind of response that makes me believe that I am not living amongst realists. Do you ever remember being asked by any political party - what your views on immigration are? Have you ever seen the subject  included in any of their manifestos. No! you have simply been presented with a Fait Accompli.\n\nWhat many people don't seem to understand, is, that the issue is not a personal one, I am sure, like you, that  I would get on perfectly well with most immigrants. But that is not the point. Managing a country is not personal: It has to be managed at the macro level in the long term interest of the country as a whole.\n\nIf you tried to put that point to Matthew  Wright of the "Wright Stuff". TV. programme. He would probably put the phone down on you. I have watched him do that sort of thing usually after sneering at the Daily Mail newspaper.\n\n We observe similar sneering on "Question Time" that other TV programme with a rather lefty bias.\n\nSorry, for banging on, but your question cannot be answered simplisticly, one has to try and describe  the circumstances which have given rise to the attitudes underlined by your question.
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labour won't do much because they were voted in - jack straw pays more attention to them in his surgeries than he does the whites - we once got dissed by him so that an asian person could speak to him.\n\nI think they should not be segregated - by keeping themselves in little corners part of me thinks that the are racist towards us. Integration is the key and they should speak our language and adopt some of our culture (the bit with  morals etc) rather than trying to turn britain into an islamist state.\n\nto answer your main question why aussie and uk government have a softly softly approach is that we have seen what happened to the twin towers in america in 2001 and are scared of a repeat episode - also we had the 7/7/05 scare in london with the bombings. some of these imigrants are bad people who do not need upsetting.  although some are peace- loviing too (i am not a racist but i like to keep an open mind about these things)\n\nI do believe however that if they commit crimes and are not born of this country they should be deported and that goes for any ethnic background/ country ( including eastern europeans who are not muslim) We should not tolerate that sort of behaviour/ criminal activity and they should be notified re: this on their immigration papers!!!
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I agree, I'm from the US, but I can see the problems starting across the pond.  We were a nation based on LEGAL immigration.  UK has always been a semi-homogeneous society.  It doesn't have to be lilly-white, but I can see that the openness of Euro countries is taking a toll on national identity
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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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Just wanted to point out in response to Milo . . . there's big difference between the ideas of the UK countries, which do have a formal political relationship and unity, sharing a football team, and the idea of African nations which have no such relationship sharing one.\n\nI don't know the answer to the question (aside from what I'm sure is intense rivalry among the UK countries) but I think Africa is a bad comparison.
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to be honest the British people are sick to death of our government putting foreigners before us, there is already a shortage of housing in the UK. and the government still let\nthe asylum seekers flood our country. \nthe government will turn its back on the elderly and the young homeless but will house and feed asylum seekers,\nif you are American/European/Australian you will have no problem whatsoever with the British but if you are from Africa/Pakistan/or other 3rd world countries then you will\njust not be liked!\nmaybe it is racism maybe its not but that's how it is..............
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Don't you read the news? This week 3 Asian men were jailed for life for the racially motivated murder of a white youth in Scotland. \n\nA Muslim man was jailed for incitement to racial violence after calling for the deaths of those who published a cartoon mocking Islam.\n\nBoth in the UK.\n\nAnd two members of the racist BNP were acquitted of incitement to racial hatred.\n\nYou really don't know what's going on around you, do you? No one is saying that non-whites can't / don't behave in a racist manner. They can and do. But the law treats them the same as whites in this respect.\n\nIndeed, judging by the BNP acquittals, non-whites are treated more harshly?\n\nAs for "by the way my father is a policeman" - are you still in primary school? Judging by your use of English, you can't be much older.\n\nFacts from the left, nonsense from the right - same as it ever was. You don't have an IQ of 196 because the adult scale doesn't go that high, unless they've had to extend it for your mighty intellect.\n\nSo let me get it right - the PC brigade won't let us accuse Muslims of racism, AND the PC brigade forced the prosecution of the Muslim for inciting racial hatred. Well, it can't be both can it?  Only in the doublethink of the racist.
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i think that everyone is entitled to their own views, and we in the UK have been kept in the dark about so many things, its unbelievable.Only recently has the world opened up to us, essentially because of globalisation and migration. Alot of the press on the television to do with politics and this sort of thing is mainly propaganda, eg when they mention things like the new anti-terror laws and such, without anything actually haveing taken place, it is to sway public opinion, its spin. i do not wish to live my life censored, and what is life if it is not free? do we really want to go back to a time when people give up their rights for personal safety?! I think that Human Rights is of utmost importance, because if you were stopped in the street and searched for being black or for wearing traditional muslim clothes, i'm sure you would be in favour of human rights. Or if you were shot at because you were suspected of being a terrorist. However, everything has its boundaries, and if you are under attack its only right that you fight back. sad but true. My opinion, from Birmingham UK.
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There is no point in denying that the BNP are anything other than a racist party - introducing white only policies clearly is discriminatory.  The party contradicts the ethos of the European Union and has no place in modern, intelligent society.  I do recognise, however, that everyone has a right to freedom of speech and that to prevent such a party existing would contradict our democratic society.  However, it is important that people are aware of what they are voting for and the type of people that could potentially run the country.  No one person or race owns a country and no one should have the right to say who should or shouldn't live there.  \n\nWith regards to the people in Barking and Dagenham, I've never seen or heard such ignorant and gullible people in my life and this is exactly the type of people the BNP has to resort to targetting.
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National rivalry has always been a part of life. I've joked with the British about their "tea time", and they punch back about our "policing the world". I love it. Its almost like a world wide brotherhood. Now there people who take the whole thing too far making judge mental accusations. There is no reason for such actions. But to answer your question I have never met someone who never said anything bad (whether joking or not)about another country
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Yes, everybody can be (and IS to some small degree) a racist.  Not just white people.  Where did you get that idea?\n\nWhen I was living and traveling in Thailand I was occasionally harassed by Thai men and women who were extremely bigoted against me because I was white.  This is an example to show you that yes, everyone can be a racist.
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i live in the uk, and i believe we have to remember that 'immigrants' may have 'small regard' for life in our countries. merely because our governments have make it so easy for them to come into countries, and want to pass on jobs we can no longer be bothered to do and deem as below us, to those who are very willing to work.\nthere is always going to be a stigma and perception to all cultures. there is always going to be good and bad in all cultures. someone will definetly find something to say.\nmexicanc,blackes, whatever really....\njust live your life and chill out a bit. :)
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Omer - normally I would probably disagree with you when you ask a question relating to England as I know you simply do not like us, and I guess that is your free choice (blinkered that it is, and a shame  as the vast majoirty of us are very decent people).  However, on this ocassion, I agree with you that the English hooligans are not better than animals - but please remember that it is not just English people that are involved in this, and that England have been trying very hard to clean up our act in this area.  What to do with them - well with today's techonlogy it would not be too hard to impose a life travel ban on the idiots that cause trouble. As for Germany they should impose prison sentances on them, but doubt they want to waste their taxpayers money on these idiots.
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I spend as much time in the US as I do abroad. In Europe, Asia and Arabia. The disprespect that is now heaped upon anything American is just unbelievable. In these forums I read notes from people who have never left their environs, harping on and trying to justify the unjustifiable. It leaves me very sad, because natural friends of America are now openly disrespecting a once great Nation. Why? Because of the Fundamentalist we have in the White House. In Britain, the politicians and populous have acted and asked Blair to go, because he has brought shame to the country in his support for Bush. It is unbelieveable how much he is now ignored by his own European partners who once glorified him.