Article from the guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/05/race-immigrationWhite, English-speaking? Come on in. Poor, Asian? Get lost. It's time we addressed our prejudices towards migrants 1. Americans: They're wealthy, speak perfect(ish) English, and we know all about their superior culture because we consume it 24/7. (I won't mention African Americans ? who, if the experiences of Diana Ross, Snoop Dogg, or Busta Rhymes are anything to go by, might not be viewed by our immigration services in quite the same light. We've yet to discover if they'd let Barack Obama through without a strip-search.)
2. Other white English-speaking nations: you know, South Africans, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders. They all look up to the Queen, and if you go back enough generations they're just like us Brits, really.
3. Northern European non-English speakers: they may not speak English fluently, but they're very hardworking, and very clever ? they all speak about five languages ? and they're as rich as us, too
4. Southern European non-English speakers: they're fun, full of passion, provide a bit of exotica lite, and they're not that much poorer than us. But with their siestas they tend to be a bit lazy; and hot-headed too.
All the above are, for the most part, welcome; and we're so comfortable with them that we rarely if ever perceive them as immigrants. After the Lindsey protests, though, category 4 is in danger of being relegated.
*5. Irish: The one exception to the western European rule. Nine centuries of anti-Irish prejudice, and their position as a colonial outpost for most of that time, has embedded itself into English culture so much that, though they're almost as wealthy as Brits, they are still not one of us.
6. Eastern Europeans: Poor, and can't speak the language. And they can't be as good as us, because they do the jobs we Brits don't want to do.
7. East Asians: From wealthy and/or powerful nations (China, Japan, Korea). Hardworking and intelligent (see the school results for those Chinese children born here). Still, though, they've got a different culture, and a totally alien language. And even the husband of our Queen doesn't like their eyes.
8. South Asians (from non-Muslim countries): Hardworking and intelligent, like east Asians, but here in greater numbers, so a bit more threatening. They keep to themselves; have their own language, culture and religion. Different food, different smells, and you wouldn't want one as a neighbour.
9. Latin Americans: Not been here very long, and not in large numbers, so haven't worked out a good reason to dislike them yet. But relatively poor, and don't speak the language, so will probably end up being a drain on the system.
10. Caribbeans: Jamaicans; yardies; muggers; black-on-black gun crime; ghettoes; need we go on? We love Bob Marley, though. And they play cricket.
11. Africans: war, famine, HIV, corruption. I mean, we gave them the chance to run their countries themselves, and look what a mess they made. Oh, and Robert Mugabe.
12. Arabs, and Asians from Muslim countries: Are you crazy? You just need to see their names to know they're terrorists. You, drop everything! Put your hands up! Don't make me pull the trigger, by breathing or something!
Here we go. So according to this simplistic load of righteous Leftist bollox. The UK is inherently institutionally racist, the white British are nasty racists and our immigration policies are draconian, racist (there's that word again) and full of hate for poor people.
What utter crap. Yes it is easier for rich people to emmigrate because they are rich....DOH
I recently emigrated to an Asian country but I'm illegal because I can't afford to own my own business and they wont give work permits to anyone who doesn't have the money to start a business, employ four indigenous staff and pay a flat rate of 10000 local currency in foreigner tax a month, plus all of the hidden charges and dodgy bribes that need to be paid to be left in peace. OHH the racism, oh the prejudice...They must be evil.
I have traveled the world and the UK is one of the only countries where the majority of people are anti racist.
Most countries populations are openly racist, there is no stigma about racism anywhere else but in the West, the only truly multi racial, multi cultural societies are in the West but of course according to A_G and this article we are the root of all evil.
Yes there is profiling done by our customs officials, that is not racist. If most drugs gangs are Colombians and Jamaicans it doesn't make sense to strip search Swedes and Australians does it. Doh!
This article could have been written by an angry teenager. It's pathetic and typical Guardian fare. Whoever wrote it is an utter spud.
People like A_G and who ever wrote this article wont be happy until Britain and America have an open door immigration policy and the white populations spend a century living in mud huts wearing hair shirts and beating themselves publicly as they apologise for slavery, colonialism, Iraq, The Falklands, Prince Philip, George Bush, The Boer War, Suez, Nicaragua, The Shah of Iran, Spam and bad dancing......
This mindset is not one of anti racism and concern for the poor immigrants it is pure class warfare and envy. It seeks to demonise rich nations and accuse white people of being bad to the core.
Spuds of the world unite....REVOLUTION
Topic: Hierarchy of Welcomehood