Mayfield669
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<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>Art Weingartner wrote:
'even a few Brits!' LOL
*deep breath*
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HA HA, I was wondering if you would snap to that. I have to admit I work with mainly highly educated individuals - engineers, etc - and that skews the data for me. As far as neighbor reshaping goes, we had a similar situation in the US years back with blacks (bear with me here, this isn't going where you might think). A black family would move into a neighborhood and everyone would put their house up for sale, house prices would plummet, and more blacks would move in. Now, most people think, hmmm, let's go meet the new neighbors, people don't panic and everything pretty much stays the way it was. However, I understand your point.
"Another thing that gets people's backs up is things like not being able to fly the English flag "for fear of upsetting minorities" - and at Christmas, we can't have trees up in council buildings or charity shops, or send cards with Christian images on "for fear of upsetting minorities". It's disgraceful. The other year, a senior government minister sent out official government Christmas cards - not a single Christian or Christmas image to be seen. Oh sure there were images of Hindu, Muslim, etc... "
We have the same situation here. We are so afraid of offending someone that everything has to be vanilla. Man, if I were you, I would fly the Union Jack in front of my house every day and if someone didn't like it, they could eat.... dirt. The only reason those people can be in Britain is that at one time the Union Jack flew over their country. They should be grateful to be there. We have the same problem here with Hispanics. While most are decent folk who want to work, live normal lives and become part of this country, the vocal minority is trying to convert the US to Spanish. The undocumented workers drain our social networks, fill the emergency rooms and classrooms and everything has to be written in Spanish. The US is based on immigrants, except for the poor Indians, but they have always adopted American ways instead of trying to make the US a copy of where they just left.
'even a few Brits!' LOL
*deep breath*
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HA HA, I was wondering if you would snap to that. I have to admit I work with mainly highly educated individuals - engineers, etc - and that skews the data for me. As far as neighbor reshaping goes, we had a similar situation in the US years back with blacks (bear with me here, this isn't going where you might think). A black family would move into a neighborhood and everyone would put their house up for sale, house prices would plummet, and more blacks would move in. Now, most people think, hmmm, let's go meet the new neighbors, people don't panic and everything pretty much stays the way it was. However, I understand your point.
"Another thing that gets people's backs up is things like not being able to fly the English flag "for fear of upsetting minorities" - and at Christmas, we can't have trees up in council buildings or charity shops, or send cards with Christian images on "for fear of upsetting minorities". It's disgraceful. The other year, a senior government minister sent out official government Christmas cards - not a single Christian or Christmas image to be seen. Oh sure there were images of Hindu, Muslim, etc... "
We have the same situation here. We are so afraid of offending someone that everything has to be vanilla. Man, if I were you, I would fly the Union Jack in front of my house every day and if someone didn't like it, they could eat.... dirt. The only reason those people can be in Britain is that at one time the Union Jack flew over their country. They should be grateful to be there. We have the same problem here with Hispanics. While most are decent folk who want to work, live normal lives and become part of this country, the vocal minority is trying to convert the US to Spanish. The undocumented workers drain our social networks, fill the emergency rooms and classrooms and everything has to be written in Spanish. The US is based on immigrants, except for the poor Indians, but they have always adopted American ways instead of trying to make the US a copy of where they just left.
