Gram? Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Lets be honest here. it's generally not the French or Italian immigrants comitting all the crimes is it.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 Lets be honest here. it's generally not the French or Italian immigrants comitting all the crimes is it.....? no i agree (apart from the mafia connections), a lot of its english crime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan_Vesta Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I suppose has to do with the intent really. To take two polar extremes, if you had an American harvard graduate who has been headhunted for a lucrative position at LIBA or an Eritrean without qualification who enters via a truck who would the public view with prejudice? Of course there will be the irrational hatred by the idiotic but what're you going to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I don't know why but i'm just watching another poetic nature program on the BEEB. There's just been a part following a tribe slaughtering a whale. It was described as a battle of brave souls, rumbling drums in the background, bare chested men, the whole Indiana Jones shebang. How would it have been portrayed if it was a Japanese whaler? Offer those same people a modern whaling boat and they would snap the hand off... It's not what you do it's the way you do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sccsux Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 i think the more unlike you someone is (race, religion etc) the more likely you are to distrust them. human nature, i think. But, as humans are supposed to be "highly evolved, intelligent.." we should be able to rise above such banalities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 see how this "debate" seems civilised and normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Yesterday on telly i was watching a programme called Michel Roux's Service, where he got 8 youngsters to learn how to become top restaurant front of house staff. one of the top restaurants they used has a lot of staff and ALL are french and italian, not one english person works there. over the years theres been a lot of hate, bile and lies spouted about immigrants in general (specially ones from certain regions or religions or races) seemed strange to me tho that a whole restaurant can contain not one english person and nothing ever gets said? is it the type of immigrant involved? or pure ignorance on the subject? So now you're complaining about people not being racist Makes a change I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 So now you're complaining about people not being racist Makes a change I suppose. not complaining, its baffeling on a sidenote, just watched episode 3 and in it, they were serving in a "curry house" and the first thing i saw upon going downstairs was the owner saying how he has to look abroad as he just cant get the staff in this country. it really highlights us as a people, so full of ourselves but then theres certain things we DO fail at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaimani Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 But, as humans are supposed to be "highly evolved, intelligent.." we should be able to rise above such banalities? for the most part, i think, we do move above it. or, at least those among us that can't learn to suppress it. the best, if not only, way is always to know those you don't understand. PS- it works both ways; from a deep despising and feeling superior to a deep veneration and feeling inferior. strange it very rarely is just the acceptance of differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 French and Italians don't generally shout abuse at our troops, persistently keep demanding their own laws or threaten to blow us to kingdom come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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