A British woman recently won gold for us at a sports event. Her name is something like Chi Kwon (not using her real name). Majority of the comments under the article argued that she isn’t really British: “she isn’t really British is she? with that name”. Then there was the usual barrage of racist comments and the most common: “a dog born in a stable doesn’t make it a horse”.
Well, perhaps that dog just wants to be a dog born in a stable? Did it ever say it prefers or wants to be a horse?
It is so ingrained!
Chi Kwon may be a 3rd generation British whose great grandfather moved to the UK from China in 1900 and her grandfather and father born in the UK, and she was also born in the UK.
One look at someone and the judgement’s already made!
But a Helen Mirren who is a first generation British, daughter of a Russian immigrant can blend in because she fits what those folk deem to be acceptable? And her name isn’t Chi Kwon!
You couldn’t make it up. It is ingrained and a disease.
When British boxer (of Pakistani descent) Amir Khan used to wave the British flag at his bouts, he was criticised for thinking he is British. When he started taking in a Pakistani flag along with the British flag, he was criticised for not wanting to be British! They can’t win!
When a country like Australia can protest migration, you just have to laugh!
It is ok for hordes of people who look nothing like the natives and do not have names that sound like native names, to move into the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand…. and the list goes on… Settle there, and get on with their lives…. right?
Of course tens of thousands of illegal migrants rowing small boats across the English Channel into the UK is not acceptable and cannot be allowed to carry on. There are several actions the government can take to deal with it. And the people who have come in, should be housed in temporarily constructed accommodation (e.g. in disused warehouses and stadiums), safely & humanely, but not in 3-Star hotels and in such luxury that rile the local population as we have seen in recent months. But to confuse this matter with general intolerance and demonisation of anyone that some decide isn’t British for whatever reason they concoct, is the underlying problem and we really are in perilous times!
At the source of it all: the illegal migration, the housing in hotels, the protests, the hate/intolerance, is…… MONEY!
It all about money!
It’s always money!
In the case of the UK, it is partly understandable. You always hear of the Upper class, Middle class and the Working class. The Working class (who makeup the overwhelming majority of the folk protesting against immigration) are ok to leave the Upper & Middle classes to run the country, get richer etc. But they do not want to see immigrants coming in, in large uncontrollable numbers, to be placed in 3-star hotels, seemingly pushing them (the Working class) down yet another level. Majority of those protesting are ok with migrants who come in the legal way, start from the very bottom, work hard and be whatever they get to be (albeit in most cases, they don’t make it too far up the ladder. Which is perhaps why nobody is up in arms..), but they cannot understand – and nobody appears willing to explain to them – why thousands of people can just row across the channel in rubber boats and start off in hotels with perks. The people who could explain the situation to them, either choose not to bother, or they see the opportunity to whip them into a frenzy, get them protesting and secure their votes in elections, using the topic (illegal migration) to drive in the votes. The human cost of it all, is that the Working class get labelled as racists (many of them are actually not racist at all), all migrants who do not look a certain way or have certain names (including those who have been here for over 100 years!) face abuse on the streets, the illegal migrants face hostilities (protests after their hotels etc.) and humanity is at a total loss!
Gather 40,000 people of any nationality and tell me if some of them won’t commit crimes?! Each time one of these migrants commit a crime, we can’t seek to bury all of them and burn the place down! For goodness sake, Brits commit crimes abroad too! Yes, them being here illegally is what grates with many people – and again, yes, the illegal crossings must be stopped urgently – but we need to avoid losing our humanity completely!
There are obvious solutions out there, if we actually try to find them. Unfortunately, all sides have dug in, they are entrenched and nobody is trying to solve the problem. It has become a numbers game and headlines for political gain! The government (past & present) knows they must address the issue, but they are caught between a rock and a hard place!
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