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Obviously it's no different.
A proportion of the indigenous population of the UK, as evidenced by some posting in this thread, have a NIMBY approach to the issue. Contrary to your assertion people resident in the UK, whether by birth, immigration or for the puropses of asylum, are still prone to being beaten, raped or killed and that is a sad fact.
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I would suggest that the risk of rape ,beatings or death is somewhat lessened though
I accept that some of the NIMBY attitude is down to pure racism but would you not agree that some of the attitude is down to the perceived idea that immigration is forced on the receiving nation ,i don't ever remember increasing immigration numbers being part of the labour or conservatives election pledges
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To assert that "we are not forcing anybody to come here" is a somewhat disjointed position to adopt. Likewise I very much doubt that anybody willingly "forced" England or France to come and invade their country during the days of the Empire / colonies.
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The point is though that any immigrant/asylum seeker chooses to come here or any major euro country either to escape a war zone,as you say ,or simply for a better way of life ,either way it is a choice (granted in the case of asylum seekers not much of a choice but still a choice).I think i am correct in saying that GB has recognized it's responsibilities post empire by allowing immigrants from ex colonies and not just abandoning them .We have and still are providing a haven for many ex British colonies
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As Santayana is credited with saying "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
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Whole heartedly agree with that sentiment ,but we should be carefull of accepting mass imigration as "retribution " or "revenge" for us invading their country during our empire building days .I am firmly of the opinion that our empire benefited many of the countries that we claimed,yes there were some bad points namely slavery and similar, but as with all of history the world has benefited as a whole from every empire from the Romans right through to the British Empire