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The only race I know is the human race. Preconceived ideas about race lead to ignorance, fear and prejudice.
The only race I know is the human race. Preconceived ideas about race lead to ignorance, fear and prejudice.
Why invest in schools when if you save enough money in tax you can pay for Your own child to attend the best you can afford and that way none of your hard earned goes anywhere near anyone else.
It's a fair point, and it's one I struggle with... although what do we do about the fact that one element of the social division between the indigenous community and (say) the immigrant Bangladeshi community is that - for cultural reasons, largely - a sizeable proportion of first generation Bangladeshi female immigrants are kept in their houses and thus denied access to the English language.How many foreign speaking countries do what we do with people who cannot/will not learn the language & translate leaflets into countless languages? :madman:
It's a fair point, and it's one I struggle with... although what do we do about the fact that one element of the social division between the indigenous community and (say) the immigrant Bangladeshi community is that - for cultural reasons, largely - a sizeable proportion of first generation Bangladeshi female immigrants are kept in their houses and thus denied access to the English language.
Should we just leave them to stew in their own houses, unable to communicate with the rest of the world?
???
Matt
Yes. This is England, not Bangladesh. Does this make me racist? The PC brigade will say I am.
However I don't feel that those who choose to only issue English language literature are being racist , they are not discriminating on the grounds of race, they are choosing not to communicate with anyone who can't read English regardless of their race.
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I think the argument would be though (basing this on the Bangladeshi community as mentioned above) that those who don't speak English are more likely to be of a different religion and therefore it is in effect racism. In a similar way that banning Burka's would be only banning an item of clothing, but by it's association with a particular religion / community and argument would be that it was racist. Would a shop that has signs saying 'no hoodies' be allowed to say 'no hoodies, cycle helmets or Burka's'....even if the principal reason for the sign was to allow CCTV to capture faces of people in the shop?
I suppose the trouble is that the more this, to use the lovely phrase 'political correctness' is imposed, the more the differences between people and race and culture is exposed. There has to be give somewhere......people who come to this country accept they are in a different country with its own culture and they adhere to it, dont get leaflets printed in their own language and have to integrate themselves or remain isolated, or those within the country embrace the influx of new cultures, dont bleat about leaflets being printed in multiple language (provided there's is on there should they complain?).
I was accused of being a chauvinist by a women I held a shop door open for, My counter was that I hold doors open for everyone, I don't discriminate.
I hope you firmly closed the door in the dungaree wearing carpet munchers face! ;)
Maybe the re-emergence of a party which is left of Thatcher might help........
Indeed, that way appears to be the Thatcherite model - and one which has undoubtedly got us into the appalling mess we are in now.
She was more of the old school " I am going to burn my bra except when it helps me get a shag" type of feminist
Me and my friend came up with an idea for the 10% tax. Now seems a good idea to implement it. The rationale is everyone is tested once a year. The bottom 10% have to pay 10% extra tax.
As it's once a year, the incentive is there to self-improve if you find yourself in the bottom 10%, and the beauty is the really stupid people wont even realise theyre being taxed. An election-winner.
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It's a fair point, and it's one I struggle with... although what do we do about the fact that one element of the social division between the indigenous community and (say) the immigrant Bangladeshi community is that - for cultural reasons, largely - a sizeable proportion of first generation Bangladeshi female immigrants are kept in their houses and thus denied access to the English language.
Should we just leave them to stew in their own houses, unable to communicate with the rest of the world?
???
Matt