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Originally Posted by Hom3r
Trouble is back in the days before the 60's it was rare to see a non white face.
My mum told me when I was walking under a underpass with her I saw my first black guy, I said in typical 2/3 year old voice "MUMMY WHATS THAT" pointing him out, he passed my mum laughing.
Some silver surfers form that era would like those days back.
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It wasn't just black or Asian peoples, but pretty much all immigrants.
The British people at the time did not want large scale immigration yet it was foisted on them first from Ireland, then the Caribbean and then the Indian sub continent.
I once worked with a lady of Asian (Hindu) origins whom I thought had fully integrated into our society. She was born here.... But, during a conversation with her on the day of Diana's death, the subject of nationality and culture came up.
She made clear to me that she had her own culture and was proud of that. I agreed with her but said we were all basically the same even with all our little differences. This seems to anger her as she then went on to itemise (literally writing a list on paper!) of every single difference between us.
I was genuinely shocked. Firstly, that she thought this way and secondly that she was correct, even down to how she had a meal. There were differences and it's those differences that very much shape whom we are, what we feel about ourselves and the wider world.
My first experience of non-British people was when a Pakistani/Bangladeshi elderly couple moved into my road in the 70s. I was a young child and very curious about everything and this couple certainly peaked my interest with their unusual clothes and language.
I'd always said hello to them, but never really talked to them, but on one particular day the curiosity got the better of me. I marched over to them as this 7 year old was on a critical mission...
I went up to the lady and asked her why she always walked 10 feet behind her husband, never at his side. She smiled, but didn't respond. So I asked her again and she said its what we do in our culture. I didn't not understand, then a neighbour of mine who had been watching all this said they were foreign and have different ways. I still didn't understand.
Ever since then I've always been tolerant of different people from different backgrounds, but remembering the words of my former work colleague, people choose and want to be different and retain their own culture.
After all these years, my opinions on things such as immigration and people from different cultures has changed. If people want to come to Britain, they need to become British. I am voting out because that is the only way to ensure this.
Whether you are a silver surfer or not, it is not wrong to expect people in your own country to live by the same norms and standards as you and collectively to think in similar ways for common goals. If everyone has their own culture and does their own thing, how can our British society continue?