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From: polls Category: Art Date: 29 May 2008 Time: 04:54 AM Review: "I don't think it is racist to be concerned for elderly people who find it increasingly hard to exist in communities where they are in the minority" "But isn't it understandable that in an area you consider your home you want to share it with people who share the values of the locality" Firsly you have no substantive evidence for your views on the thoughts of older white people. Perhaps you are projecting your own racist fears onto a more sympathetic group than the one you represent (presumably that of youngish people). Secondly what are the values of the locality for the people you are worried about (the white working class), christianity, english food, and english people and in what ways do the old people find it hard to exist (besides shit pensions given to them by a white govt.)? How many of these white working class people attend church, read shakespeare, etc? And given that many immigrants are english speakers from ex-British colonies, mostly they probably share the values of the indigenous community and the only objection that can be offered against them is that they enjoy local values with a different skin colour. And when they attend mosque or temple or eat different food or talk a different language why should that be so offensive to an english white person, an englishman's home is his castle, and most of our life in cities is spent in private, why should it matter what other people are doing while we sit watching our tv. Thirdly why do the rights and feelings of locals have so much more weight for you than those of immigrants. Immigrants must often feel scared and lonely as much as white oaps. They often fear the majority and are worried by many issues that the native can ignore (like learning to speak english). Where is your sympathy for them. Perhaps you say, all right, let them go back to their own country, well the tedious reply is that that never stopped the Brits invading and exploiting theirs, and secondly why shouldn't we share our enormous wealth with people from poorer less stable and liberated countries. So in the end I feel most of your spurious sympathy for the old white people and worries about some kind of nebulous cultural pollution are just a displaced dislike of people who look different from you. If that is the case speak for yourself not the bogus spectral OAP you conjure up to make yourself feel kind, rather than racist.