"Water and oil don’t mix.
You put a few drops of oil in a bottle of water and you can shake it
well – as well as you want – but in the end the oil will remain
separate. Tony Blair is shaking this country and hoping that
multiculturalism will work. It hasn’t. And it won’t."
No I was not attending a British Nationalist Party rally. I heard this
quip on a train between Birmingham and Leicester. I was impressed by the
metaphor and got smacked by the expressed views.
"Don’t get me wrong – I am not a totalitarian bigot. I am a democrat.
But has Tony Blair ever bothered to pop a letter in the post to us
asking whether we actually want to live in a multicultural society? If a
majority of the British public agree to it, then so be it. If not, we
should just respect the majority opinion."
And do what, I wondered. Chuck the rest of us non-whites out? Did Robert
Clive ever conduct any referendum in India to find out whether Indians
wanted to be enslaved by the East India Company? Or did His Majesty ever
write to the Indians to find out whether they wanted to be part of the
motley crew that dwelled in his empire?
Am I not comparing apples and oranges? Non-whites aren’t exactly ruling
Britain, are they?
"English people should
live in England. Asians should live in Asia. Africans should live in
Africa. That’s how the world should be."
OK, so why did hordes of Englishmen join the merchant navy bound for the
exotic (and rich) Orient? And what on earth did Gordon Brown (a Scot) do
to deserve being chucked out from 11 Downing Street in London?
"You can’t buy a cheap house these days because all of those are being
gobbled up by the immigrants."
This surely classifies as ‘economics for the insane’, suggesting that
Britain’s house prices are linked to immigration.
"I have no issues with immigrants if they take our ways. I just don’t
get the whole multicultural thing."
Right, and what would those ways be? Fail at school? Getting pregnant by
15? Smoking cannabis by 16? Getting an ASBO (anti-social behavioral
order) by 18? Divorcing our partners? Getting drunk every Saturday night
down the pub and get involved in a brawl after that over a girl or a
guy, or worse still, a cigarette?
Don’t get me wrong. I am not defending another sort of anti-social
behavior – that which leads to virtual segregation, with communities not
touching each others’ lives. But what needs to be appreciated and
understood by a certain class within British society is that
multiculturalism is not a choice- it is a fact of life. It is a fact
that has been created by the Europeans, and that which must now be
accepted by the Europeans in all its avatars.
For all the positives and negatives of immigration, it is a fact now
that the UNICEF rates Britain the worst place to raise your child in the
developed world. It is also a fact that ethnic minorities perform far
better at school than their ‘native’ counterparts. It is also true that
record number of jobs are being advertised in the country, and
immigrants are not taking away opportunities from the locals.
Yes, there are negatives such as illegal immigration. But then again,
when was rational discussion the point of the rambles of my
co-passenger?
He is just part of an increasingly overlooked underbelly that Britain
has that has remained rooted to the past.
April 22,
2007
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