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Originally Posted by HunterICX
what a waste of money! rip his passport appart and send him back to his own country.
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Err... he is in his own country. He lived in Britain his entire life.
Multiculturalism works, and has a number of advantages. The input of new ideas, diversity in the economy, teaches tollarance in the community. All this talk about a Britishness standard is total misguided victorian rhetoric.
I live in a multicultural community. Fifty Percent of the community are the local Welsh speaking population, the rest of us are divided between various groups. We have a significant Israeli population, and a simular sized Palestinian community for that matter. A very large proportion of Muslims and Hindus live in the town, probably just about outnumbering the Chinese Population. And the most recent addition to the community has been an influx of Polish people contracted to rebuild parts of the University.
The key is education. The University is the major employer in the town, pulling in a lot of skills from outside the area. The students make up a fantastic proportion of the population. And thats the point, the key is nothing to do with Britishness, ethnicity or cultural origins. Its to do with education. Most people in Aberystwyth have their 6 GCSE's and 3 A-Levels. They have learnt to think. As a consiquence, we don't collect in ghetos, or keep to our own. When I was a student, I spent two years living with Muslims. That I was Catholic had no bearing on attitudes towards me. The only effect it had was that they kept tempting foods out of the way during Lent, just as I avoided eating in front of them during the day at Rammadan.
Education breeds tolorance. We don't have violence in this town, we don't get the Welsh saying "Saes mynd hafan" (English Go Home), or Aberystwyth for the indiginious Christian population. The alternative is model is the Northern Ireland system, where everyone keeps to their small part of the city. That bred a century of secterian violence and I find it difficult to believe that any British person on these forums would seriously advocate that as the model community.
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Originally Posted by Kaptain
The only benifit of the whole issue is making it look as if we care when 90% of the true british population couldnt care less wether these people crawled up a pipe and died, i personaly have no time and want nothing to do with muslims who preach hate.
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True British Population!?!? Technically they only exist in North Scotland and Western Wales (and arguably Cornwall). What do you mean by True British?