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Funny The Things That Stick In My Mind - I Ain't An Immigrant, I'm English
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Some years ago there was an on-street interview in one of the early evening news programmes, a youngish couple, Lord knows how the reporter found them.
"Why are you moving to Spain?
Can't stand all the immigrants, don't feel safe with all these foreigners (there was a lot more about them taking all the jobs, not speaking English....)
Can't you see the irony in that?
Yer what? What's irony?
You'll be immigrants in Spain, how do you think the Spanish will react to you?
I ain't an immigrant, I'm English."
I wonder where they are now? Fully integrated in to the Spanish way of life, fully fluent in the language and adopting the customs and lifestyle, I expect.
Any odd things stuck with you over the years?
"Why are you moving to Spain?
Can't stand all the immigrants, don't feel safe with all these foreigners (there was a lot more about them taking all the jobs, not speaking English....)
Can't you see the irony in that?
Yer what? What's irony?
You'll be immigrants in Spain, how do you think the Spanish will react to you?
I ain't an immigrant, I'm English."
I wonder where they are now? Fully integrated in to the Spanish way of life, fully fluent in the language and adopting the customs and lifestyle, I expect.
Any odd things stuck with you over the years?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Air-cooled, I have spent a lot of time in mainland Spain and Tenerife over the years and no exactly what some British ex-pats are like. My sister lives in Rojales, her husband is much younger and I am sad to say they seem to dislike the Spanish and certainly wouldn't trust them to do building work, car repairs, anything like that.
However, I was hoping to hear about inconsequential things that have stuck in people's minds, not necessarily about immigration or ex-pats
However, I was hoping to hear about inconsequential things that have stuck in people's minds, not necessarily about immigration or ex-pats
//Some years ago there was an on-street interview ... and ... Lord knows how the reporter found them.//
Perhaps the "News" item , like this thread was a clumsy attempt to show the English speaking peoples as racist hypocrites. Deliberately posted today too. Should a site moderator know better or show more self control? ... Or both?
Perhaps the "News" item , like this thread was a clumsy attempt to show the English speaking peoples as racist hypocrites. Deliberately posted today too. Should a site moderator know better or show more self control? ... Or both?
Of course the English aren't racist, the patron saint is a Turkish man who never visited England.
One thing I never do is generalise. I absolutely do not believe that anyone has a particular mindset, attitude or pattern of behaviour on the basis of their nationality, colour, religion, class, sex or level of education.
We are individuals and I treat everyone as such.
One thing I never do is generalise. I absolutely do not believe that anyone has a particular mindset, attitude or pattern of behaviour on the basis of their nationality, colour, religion, class, sex or level of education.
We are individuals and I treat everyone as such.
Barry/ I just laugh when I think of a couple of times I fooled two sets of friends into thinking I was German when I called in. First was in Santa Ponsa when I knocked at the door of friends who holidayed there six months in the year. Headsquare on + dark glasses, all made-up and speakng in a guttural German accent I enquired from the wife if her husband had any fish to sell (he used to fish off the pier and was pestered by Germans wanting to buy the fish he had caught). Wife toddled off along the corridor and I heard her say "there's a German lady wanting to buy fish" .. I was ushered into a room and bargaining started ... this carried on for a little while during which time I was shown three different types of fish .. but I could no longer keep up the pretence and collapsed laughing, much to friends' astonishment.They never let me forget how I tricked them!
Second was similar but I entered a countryside cafe belonging to two friends - again I wore a disguise and asked for Scottish shortbread and tea in my now quite effective German accent ... I did think they gave me a peculiar look but it was a scorching hot Summer day and I was wearing a headsquare! Each time they served someone else, they kept looking over at me until I just couldn't continue and burst out laughing. They said they had been "suspicious" of me!!
We do do silly things from time to time, don't we?
Second was similar but I entered a countryside cafe belonging to two friends - again I wore a disguise and asked for Scottish shortbread and tea in my now quite effective German accent ... I did think they gave me a peculiar look but it was a scorching hot Summer day and I was wearing a headsquare! Each time they served someone else, they kept looking over at me until I just couldn't continue and burst out laughing. They said they had been "suspicious" of me!!
We do do silly things from time to time, don't we?
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