Has Britain Gained Anything From Multiculturalism?

[anotheoldgit]

This is the negative side of Multiculturalism, Pakistani child grooming gangs, British bred Islamic terrorists and Black on Black killings on our streets.

[sunny-dave]

[david small]

Don’t forget we now have lot’s of no go areas in certain towns and cities.

[naomi24]

I know an Indian restaurant that stages Bollywood Nights. They're quite jolly.

[david small]

Oh, that’s alright then.

[jackthehat]

Yes, it has.

[douglas9401]

Being able to buy bread and milk on a Sunday.
Vegetable pakora.

[kvalidir]

We've been multicultural since the Roman invasions, to what are you referring exactly?

[naomi24]

david small. //Oh, that’s alright then. //

Haha! The question is "Has Britain gained anything from multiculuralism?". Damned if I do, and damned if I don't. ;o)

[Jackdaw33]

You have always been able to buy bread and milk on a Sunday, ever since corner shops were run by sweet little old ladies. Can't remember much of a demand for vegetable pakora, though.

[douglas9401]

Apologies, after 4pm on a Sunday.

And don't dis the pakora. :-)

[Sqad]

sunny-dave......LOL.

Kvali....correct perhaps, but the video, explains what us "simpletons" mean by....multiculturalism.

[Old_Geezer]

Not so much it seems. But one wonders how much change, good or bad, is down to immigration, and how much down to this idea that immigrants need not integrate, but may have pockets of their native culture in Britain. I doubt many natives object to the increase variety of pleasant cultural things immigrants, who opted to integrate yet retain a flavour of "home", introduced here. I suspect most issues are rooted in some trying to remain foreign in outlook and keep foreign behaviour when in their adopted country. Some things just aren't acceptable.

[tiggerblue10]

There are negative sides to lots of things and the same could be said about the IRA and historic church related child abuse cases. Not to mention the Krays.

I think the gains far outweigh the negatives.

[Zacs-Master]

I don’t follow your question and then the statement after it. Are you trying to make a point?

[blueintheface]

Zac - Of course he is. It's a misty eyed recall of days of yore when Britain was a white only society, revelling in the 'glories of Empire'. We certainly all knew our place then, eh! A global shift, travel so much easier, many different people in many different countries and our knowledge and understanding of this variety enriches those of us who want to be enriched. If you don't, then it's your loss. Oh, and a view that we have no-go areas in some towns and cities seems to forget that in the 1950s razor/knife gangs 'controlled' certain areas in London, Glasgow, Manchester and other cities - and those young men were white.

[Peter Pedant]

I cannot believe this!
dear Sqad cannot find anything positive about our unceremonious exit from Empire
( colonising in reverse is a feature of every end of empire)

langauge culture cuisine....
or more tangible

arab petrodollars
russian petrodollars

this is another thread where AOG says when he goes to hospital - he finds no doctors no nurses and no cleaning staff isnt it?

[mushroom25]

//in the 1950s razor/knife gangs 'controlled' certain areas in London, Glasgow, Manchester and other cities - and those young men were white. //

white, yes. in London, there were invariably maltese.

[Guilbert53]

Of course AOG is referring to immigration / multicuturalism from Asian countries (India, Pakistan) and "black" countries such as Africa or Jamaica.

For most of our history we have had immigration / invasion from countries nearby (Italy, France, Germany, Scandinavia) from the Celts, Romans, Vikings, Algels, Saxons.

While these people were not exactly the same as those already in Britain, they had many similarities. They were "white" and had a European background.

After a period of Pagan religion most adopted a Christian based religion.

So as these various peoples began to live here, and marry the people already in the UK, then we got a group of people who were mostly white, mostly European and most Christian.

But in the last say 50 years we have had a HUGE influx of people who DONT mix easily with us.

They are NOT white, don't have European values, and are not Christians (or at least from a Christian background).

This is a major problem as some of these people are "happy" to accept FGM (female Genital mutilation), Honour Killings and so on.

And as many have problems fitting in to society, and getting a job, they turn to crime, often drug dealing and so on. This leads to stabbings and shootings as we have seen recently.

Yesterday was the end of Eid and in Birmingham 140,000 people came to "celebrate" it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44496158

This shows the huge level of immigration we have in this country and a huge number of people who are NOT of our traditional background.

To me this is huge problem.

I am retired and get the chance to see the news on TV and on the internet perhaps more than most and I am staggered at the amount of crime reported on these news media involving "immigrants" (I use the term loosely to describe those who have just come here, or those who are children of immigrants).

The amount of crime reported by these "ethnic" groups is far higher than the percentage of them in the country.

Plus of course they are breeding at a far greater rate than the "white" population so their percentage is growing.

I fear for the future of this country and it saddens me to see how this country had been dragged down to third world levels in the last 30 or 40 years.

[Peter Pedant]

// We've been multicultural since the Roman invasions,//
yeah I wondered this

why didnt the Angles ( non sunt angli sed angeli- those) massacre the Saxons when they came later ?

and sunday opening is / was a matter of law innit
not the availability of pakora sellers from pakora-land

i thought shops of yore had to keep hours - like pubs and so on ....

[mushroom25]

//i thought shops of yore had to keep hours //

they did indeed, and here's the legislation pertaining:-
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/enacted
it's a fascinating snapshot of days gone - interestingly the legislation didn't specify opening, but closing.