New sperm bank in Birmingham?

[vetran]

Broadly I agree, but I guess we also learnt to dump our elderly parents in old people's homes. The Asian family across the road have built a large annex to their house and the elderly dad has moved in. Bloody savages.

hey I didn't say our culture was perfect!

I love the way Asian & Indian cultures care for their folks. Interestingly some Christian folks do very similar.

[Batcher]

We outgrew arranged marriages a century or two ago. It was very common then.

I think someone forgot to tell that to the Royal Family and other members of the aristocracy.

[MicrosoftBob]

well if they weren't 'spermist'



If they were white being 'particular' I wonder if that the sentence would be different?

Agree they should have retained the anonymity.

The sentence would be the same, the difference being if they were white it would be racist

[vetran]

I think someone forgot to tell that to the Royal Family and other members of the aristocracy.

yes because Charles was forced to marry Camilla, Diana though he was strongly pushed and Wills didn't test drive Kate.

25 Commoners Who Married Royalty - Business Insider

been happening for decades.

There is a difference between and arranged marriage and marrying within your own social circle. I bet soon one of the Windsors will marry someone from an ethnic minority.

[CloudWalker]

"Just out of curiosity, what's the going rate for a shot these days"

[Old Greg]

There is a difference between and arranged marriage and marrying within your own social circle. I bet soon one of the Windsors will marry someone from an ethnic minority.

The Queen married a German-Greek if that helps.

[vetran]

The Queen married a German-Greek if that helps.

doesn't tick the 'person of colour' box that seems to be the yardstick of equality.

Now if she had married Cab Calloway....

[GreyWolf]

Broadly I agree, but I guess we also learnt to dump our elderly parents in old people's homes. The Asian family across the road have built a large annex to their house and the elderly dad has moved in. Bloody savages.

I wondered how long it would it be before someone trotted out that self-loathing bollocks.

In poor countries where old age means worn-out at 50 from manual labour then, yes, old people do get taken in by their children. That works fine because the woman of the house (and it is always the woman doing the care work) has been a domestice slave all her life and if her husband says she's going to be an unpaid nurse for her mother-in-law then that's how it's going to be. Otherwise she might just be having an unfortunate accident involving matches, some kerosene and a very inflammable sari.

This isn't too practical in wealthier societies where old age manifests itself as mental incapacity at 75+ and requires specialist medical care. Not only are the youngers untrained in that care but they're often off doing some other job. Woman here in the unenlightened, savage west have these things called careers.

Southern European countries that have grown rapidly wealthier in recent decades have made the same move from at-home care to institutional care that Britain did in the earlier part of the last century. This change is starting to happen in south Asian culture both in south Asia and in the UK. The rate of change is unsurprisingly more rapid in groups that were already quite wealthy and educated like Ugandan Asians than it is amongst immigrants from more rural poor backgrounds in southern Asia.

You might think that females in the workplace are a sign of the decadence of western society and they should all be at home wiping geriatric arses but some people disagree and they're not about to change their minds just to indulge your middle-class, 'ain't poverty beautiful' fantasies of the mysterious east.

[Old Greg]

I wondered how long it would it be before someone trotted out that self-loathing bollocks.

In poor countries where old age means worn-out at 50 from manual labour then, yes, old people do get taken in by their children. That works fine because the woman of the house (and it is always the woman doing the care work) has been a domestice slave all her life and if her husband says she's going to be an unpaid nurse for her mother-in-law then that's how it's going to be. Otherwise she might just be having an unfortunate accident involving matches, some kerosene and a very inflammable sari.

This isn't too practical in wealthier societies where old age manifests itself as mental incapacity at 75+ and requires specialist medical care. Not only are the youngers untrained in that care but they're often off doing some other job. Woman here in the unenlightened, savage west have these things called careers.

Southern European countries that have grown rapidly wealthier in recent decades have made the same move from at-home care to institutional care that Britain did in the earlier part of the last century. This change is starting to happen in south Asian culture both in south Asia and in the UK. The rate of change is unsurprisingly more rapid in groups that were already quite wealthy and educated like Ugandan Asians than it is amongst immigrants from more rural poor backgrounds in southern Asia.

You might think that females in the workplace are a sign of the decadence of western society and they should all be at home wiping geriatric arses but some people disagree and they're not about to change their minds just to indulge your middle-class, 'ain't poverty beautiful' fantasies of the mysterious east.

Were you very badly treated as a child?

[MicrosoftBob]

yes because Charles was forced to marry Camilla, Diana though he was strongly pushed and Wills didn't test drive Kate.

25 Commoners Who Married Royalty - Business Insider

been happening for decades.

There is a difference between and arranged marriage and marrying within your own social circle. I bet soon one of the Windsors will marry someone from an ethnic minority.

One did want to marry an ethnic minority, strangely they died before it could happen