I am going to apologise for the following rant which some people may not agree with but that I feel very strongly about.
Throughout the centuries, there has always been a suffering minority in the UK. Throughout the times of slavery, it was African citizens, more recently it's been Eastern Europeans who, apparently "steal all our jobs". No, they don't. They just take the ones us snobby British folk don't want to do. They'll quite happily work from 5am until 9pm picking potatoes for less than the minimum wage for it is better than what they would get in their home country. They attempt to fit in with our culture, having their children educated in our schools, sustain our economy and at least attempt our language. And all they get in return is a load of racist comments about how they have no right to be here.
Might I point out that the British had no right to invade India, Australia or more recently, Afghanistan. We just strolled in there, acting like we owned the place and demanded that we had more rights than the native inhabitants. Like the Americans imposed their culture onto the Native American Indians, so we do to all the immgrants who wish to have a better life in our country. It's simply hypocritical to think that these people suffer constantly from us and we reap the rewards.
But the racism that sickens me the most is that against the travelling communities. They are degraded by us, insulted with words like 'pykie' when they have higher morals than most of us. No sex, alcohol or going out alone before marriage, they are a close knit community that deserves our respect for maintaining their ancient values when we abandoned ours at the first sight of sexualisation in the media. They may dress differently, but then so do Muslims and Hindus and so I believe it is wrong to criticise them. They receive so much bad press that now many councils are forced to destroy their homes because the local community doesn't want them to build homes on land that they bought. If it was a black person who was refused planning permission to build a home for their family there would be an uproar about the increase in racism today.
But the travelling communities' cries for help go unnoticed and so now many children are forced to live by the roadside in constant danger of high speed traffic and police who are required to move them along. Laws have been passed that prevent gypsies from staying on public ground and so they are increasingly limited by this as to where they can live.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/big-fat-gypsy-weddings/4od#3159192
It's disgraceful. We have no unreasonable limits as to where we can live, so why should they? We should put our preconceived notions aside and welcome travelling communities as they help the economies of towns, keep to themselves and actually don't cause the trouble people think that they do.
I urge you, don't judge a person just because of their race or background. Judge them on who they are as a person.
A general lookout at a student's life and the challenges and worries associated with it.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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- luckygirl37
- Okay, so I'm a first year law student looking for a way out of the university workload. Trust me, it can get that bad, but i'm sure it'll be worth it in the end. I crave some sort of creative output and so this blog is going to be sort of a diary of a university student. I love criticising and worshipping different media as well as socialising student style and spending time with the currently adoring boyfriend. i also love good food, a passion which also haunts me as i battle weight gain with avengence. Obsessed perfectionist and hopeless romantic, i love planned spontanaity and in this case oxymorons.
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