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Originally Posted by Carth
OK, here's a 'for instance' for you 
My next door neighbour (neighbor*) is a Sikh, really nice chap, well liked by all around here (white middle class 3 bed detached area).
The reason he moved here from a different part of town . . in his words . .
"Too many of those Polish people moved in to where I was, always fighting and causing trouble, no good for people like me"
*American spelling, this board rejects the English one. |
I've had that about 9 years ago, in a Hospital waiting room talking to a man of Pakistani descent, and complaining about them taking the local jobs. Now I didn't have an issue with that because I had no reason to assume the guy wasn't born in Britain, in which case if he has an opinion on an fairly recent influx of immigrants, his opinion is just as valid as a white British person's