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Originally Posted by sarah_webinc
Yeah because nobody else in the UK has ever taken any benefits from the 'empire'. Scotland might be a white country but England isn't really a white country these days and that makes it more interesting. Especially in the larger cities. However, the UK is primarily a judaeo christian country regardless of colour. That is what is be threatened and the major cultural differenes that come with that rather than the smaller ones that come from just being a different colour. That fight is just starting to kick off in the UK and I am not sure what the journey is going to be like. I am a tree hugging bleeding heart liberal but it is those exact ideals that keep me from wanting to see women's rights roll backwards, etc but at the same time wanting to maintain freedom of religion and the like. A hard time in cultural history.
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You know I dislike people like you, those who pretend it 'makes it more interesting', all the while ignoring the vast majority of people who aren't happy with it. Give me a break. If you argue on economic grounds, you may make some decent points, though even they can be debated. Fact is multi-culturalism doesn't add to the country postitively from most other areas, and overall the effect of mass-immigration has not been a positive one by most peoples accounts. There is a reason anti-immigration parties find 95% of their support in working class areas, it's because they look like Beirut, and most people find it disgusting that a political class full of sociology degree holding elitists don't give a shit about what their constituents want.
You can have your head up in the clouds aiming for some global utopia, and it isn't a bad target to aim for, however when the steps along the way are as corrosive as they are, maybe we aren't taking the right steps, or maybe we are taking them too soon. Countries in Western Europe have VERY little to gain from Middle-Eastern, African, etc immigration into their once mostly homogeneous countries, and thus in the interest of representing democracy, and the best interests of their constituents it should be restricted.
Instead, as I said, degree holding elitists like yourself, who form a political class, really don't give a shit about democracy, or good governance in that respect, and only seek to chase down some political agenda that, the people who most see the effects of, don't approve of.
Here is a nice Harvard report outlining just a few of the corrosive effects of mass-immigration:
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/pro...8&ID=60854 19