I find jokes about immigrants - very inappropriate on public forums - where always some will join in and will call immigrants - 'spongers but not all spongers,' few will chip in with Muslim allusions and so forth. Yes I might be a liberal Nazi who says no to ignorant and insensitive jokes that might be read by few on this forum who are immigrants living in this country. Confusing various immigrants groups with asylum seekers is another good example of lack of knowledge on the subject.
I am one of the immigrants. Everyday anywhere I go, there is someone who will say - immigrants this, immigrants that, wtf- then some will try to say 'but we are more tolerant then others' - perhaps, but not as tolerant as one might wish from the so called 'civilised country'.
I never made my 'foreign' status obvious on this forum as I thought it is not necessary, but every few weeks someone will manage to express their views or jokes that frankly are replacement of the jokes from the past that were about Irish, blacks and whatever.
As an internet forum, and run by British people it is easily assumed that only white Brits would read the threads. The assumption of white is quite obvious because of quite frequent comments with racist undertones emerge from time to time.
I had few friends who have looked through this forum while back, and they were shocked by some of the views posted here and being allowed.
The obsession that is ever present with asylum seekers and immigrants verge on pathological in this country. Thanks to 'PC brigade' there are laws in place that at least can enable 'non-white Brits' to have some rights.
The reason I moved here long time ago was because London was a multi - racial and fairy integrated city; London is unique in the level of multi-cultural integration, this is what has attracted me here in the first place. But with the New Labour- the word tolerance to wards 'the other' is slowly fading from the political landscape. It is so easy to blame 'the others' - immigrants for the NHS failing, lost manufacturing, jobs and poverty.
Easy scape goats we immigrants are. Part of being an immigrant is to learn to get used to ignorance, but it does not mean we can't question it. And for those who wish we would go away- we are to stay here whether you like it or not
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