Posted by oakwoodbank The older you get the more difficult it is to hide who you are; but after retirement it probably doesn't matter as no one cares.
on 24/10/2009, 8:25 am, in reply to "Question Time"
I still find it remarkable that no one mentioned 'culture'.
It is not the colour of the skin that is of prime importance but the culture that the person (and their ilk) bring to this country.
I have met several Polish people who are working in this country and, apart from their language, their general demeanour is very much like ours. That means they do not stick out like sore thumbs in a gathering of people. I have also worked with French, Germans, Greeks and they are good people who do not want to push their culture on the 'indigenous' people around them. In fact their culture is remarkably like ours.
Equally there are 'indigenous' people whose culture is not welcome; so really it is down to how people behave that matters and how well they are prepared to fit in without bringing a pantechnicon full of their own culture and setting up mini-ethnic centres here in Britain.
There is an old saying that goes, When in Rome do as Rome does. If the immigrants would abide by that we may have less aggravation and less need for a 'far right'.
When I was a young child in Stockport there was (as far as I could tell) only one coloured male living in the area. He had arrived from London at some stage. He was a great guy, gentle, quiet and was known as 'Black Bob'. But that was only to white people, you never dared to call him that in his presence.
County supporter and follower since 1946; now exiled in Anglesey.
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