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Originally Posted by ianathuth
Not so many years ago if you think about it. The Duke of Edinburgh was born a Greek and his great grandfather was Danish.
I am British and proud of it and have a lot of coloured friends who are also British and proud of it. There are a hell of a lot of UK residents whose parents or grandparents were from other countries but you cannot tell that from looking at them as they are white and speak English. When I lived in West Yorkshire I had a very good friend who was a dentist in Heckmondwike (home of Kronas). I was once in his surgery after hours and heard two people talking in the next room. One of them had a very strong Glaswegian accent, the other a very broad Yorkshire accent. When I entered that room what do you think I saw? Two very black men, one being the dentists Uncle, the other was Charlie Williams (black comedian from Barnsley) father. They were both British.
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I understand what you are saying and agree with you. I think that what stamp 92 and a lot of people that I speak to (and I speak to a
lot) are concerned about is a lack of integration on the part of immigrants/asylum seekers. When my parents came here in the 50's they took great pains to integrate (whilst also maintaining their own cultural roots). That integration seems to be absent in many cases these days. This is possibly because the cultures that are arriving here are so alien to our own that it will take generations to integrate properly, if it happens at all.
The old lady in the news article was completely out of order doing/saying what she did. There are many older people here that have extremely racist views. In my experience, the older the person, the more racist they are.
One of my receptionists is a Muslim and looks indian (she is from Madagascar)
She and her daughter have both been victims of racism here in the UK merely because of their colour (the worst abuse was from an elderly neighbor-the police had to intervene). This is in spite of the fact that my receptionist speaks with as 'posh' an accent as I do (and her vocab is probably better, since she has a BA in French and art) and her daughter was the brightest pupil in all of Kent at A level!