Is London no longer an Englishish city ?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.amren.com/...9/london_is_no_lo.php

Well according to John Cleese it isn't, he was quoted as saying:

/// "I had a Californian friend come over two months ago, walk down the King’s Road and say, “Where are all the English people?” ///

/// "I mean, I love having different cultures around. But when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you’re left thinking, “Well, what’s going on?”

Diverse: Areas of London like Whitechapel, pictured below, are extremely multicultural:

http://i.dailymail.co...005DC-791_468x310.jpg

[237SJ]

Bit like going to LA and saying "where are all the American people" then. His friend must have felt quite at home.

[Bobbisox]

AOG it will always be an English city, that's can't be changed, I heard on TV last night it is the most visited city in the world

[Bobbisox]

yep, the only 'true' American is the Red Indian

[anotheoldgit]

Bobbisox

/// yep, the only 'true' American is the Red Indian ///

Tut-Tut Bobbi not quite PC these days, to refer to 'Native Americans' as 'Red Indians'

[Bobbisox]

hahaha, I will be getting lynched and hung out to dry for that slip AOG

[VHG]

I live near Birmingham, and my mother lives in Harrow, London and a few months ago I took the underground train from Harrow to Baker Street.

As I sat in the carriage I looked around me and realised I was one of the few "white" people on the train.

A few people were on the phone, and not one of them was talking in English.

While down in London I went into Central Harrow to look at the shops. I thought I had gone into a mixture of Pakistan/Iran/Barbados.

I looked at the local Harrow paper at my mothers, and I hardly saw a white persons face in the whole paper.

I live on the edge of Birmingham, and any trip into central Birmingham and again you will see huge numbers of non-whites.

In Birmingham I went into a phone shop as I want to upgrade my phone, and ALL the staff and ALL the customers were non-white. I was the only white person in the shop.

If you drive through Sparkhill or Small Heath in Birmingham then EVERY person will be non-white, these have be taken over by mostly Asians (and ruined in the process).

I am sorry, but this country is not the one I was born in, and now not the one I want to live in.

Pity as I used to love this country.

[boxtops]

It'll always be English - and just because people are different colours, it doesn't mean they are not British nationals.

[237SJ]

So is a white-faced Pole or Russian more English than a black who was born here?

[boxtops]

Exactly - you can't tell by looking.

[sara3]

VHG, where are you moving to then?

[Bobbisox]

Oh dear, here we go
Kakurol, no call for this kind of stuff, is there?

[anotheoldgit]

It is a sad fact that one can only spot people who are not of the typical white indigenous population of England, by the colour of their skin.

It is also not 'Racist to point out this fact.

Why is it then that a native white English persons cannot be proud of their culture just as black persons are proud of theirs.

Surely a white person who happens to be born in Africa cannot be classed as a native African?

[Bobbisox]

I'm proud of my culture and I am not afraid to say so

[237SJ]

Tell that to the South Africans

[boxtops]

Who's not proud of their indigenous English culture, AOG? I know I am!

..and once again - the English have evolved over hundreds of years from mixed races, and these days many people fully entitled to call themselves citizens of this country are NOT WHITE. It doesn't matter whether they are green - they are still "ours". How many years to you have to go back to find the sort of pure indigenous population that you are hankering after?

[boxtops]

"Surely a white person who happens to be born in Africa cannot be classed as a native African? "

Of course they can, if they are citizens of one of the African countries - there are white people born and raised all over Africa.

[anotheoldgit]

Just spotted, before the correction brigade spot it.

I inadvertently added an extra 'ish' on to English, sorry.

[THECORBYLOON]

Is this the latest cost cutting measure by the Tories, replacing the Office for National Statistics and employing only by John Cleese? The last ONS figures show that 34% of London's population were born abroad.

"Why is it then that a native white English persons cannot be proud of their culture just as black persons are proud of theirs." You can be proud but can a black English prson not be proud to be English too?