Sunak's Mass Immigration Policies in practice

[sreed]

I was helping a friend look for short term accomodation in the Stratford-Leytonstone corridor, when I came across this ad where a live-out landlord wanted "pure vegetarian" tenants only. I've never come across that before. I know what vegetarian means but wth is "pure".

Google told me that the landlord's name was a common Indian name so I asked an Indian colleague if he knew what it meant.

He told me it's code for upper caste Hindus or extreme vegetarian Hindus who are typically seen as 'clean' by other similar types.

If you're a live-in landlord I can understand a preference for people who won't cook meat in the house. But I struggle to think of any good reason that a live-out landlord would have to be bothered about their tenant's eating habits.
https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshar...26mode%3Dlist&

[malvolio]

Nothing to do with dietary requirements, all to do with caste and/or a desire to only deal with people of the same religious persuasion without tripping the discrimination brigade.

Don't see any reason to bring Sunak into it though, nor his policies...

[vetran]

So its just imported racism not Sunak's fault?

[sreed]

Nothing to do with dietary requirements, all to do with caste and/or a desire to only deal with people of the same religious persuasion without tripping the discrimination brigade.

Don't see any reason to bring Sunak into it though, nor his policies...

As our current PM (the chief exec of the country) and a senior cabinet member for many years, he’s the one (and one of many) who’s been merrily rubber stamping unsustainably high permanent mass non-EU immigration from a handful of countries into the UK over the past few years after promising “tens of thousands” over the decade prior.

[malvolio]

Jeez, just listen to yourselves. How do you know the people involved are immigrants? I know many fifth generation Indians who are genuine UK citizens. And the immigration policies you are attacking were explicitly defined by Blair and Brown in their mad attempt at boosting their share of the votes in the 90s.

So blaming Sunak is both childish and inaccurate

And, just to complete the pack, discrimination on the basis of religion or caste is not racism, while it is reprehensible to our eyes it is an inherent part of their culture..

So I'll be off now. Go back to your crayons.

[northernladuk]

If you're a live-in landlord I can understand a preference for people who won't cook meat in the house. But I struggle to think of any good reason that a live-out landlord would have to be bothered about their tenant's eating habits.

As mentioned, and kinda of answered by yourself. It's nothing to do with eating habits but identifies a certain set of people so just away of dictating what tenants you want in a system where you can't be discriminatory.

Like if you put an advert up asking only for people who love Yorkshire Pudding. You'll be targetting a sub set of people you want but not being openly discriminatory. Poor example as anyone could love Yorkshire pudding and it's extremely thinly veiled discrimination but you get what I am saying.

You could argue this type of veiled discrimination goes on, and seems to be accepted for certain groups of people but that'll only be apparent if you are going looking for it or have an agenda. One for a different discussion.

[edison]

This has been going on for decades.

I went to see a house share in the mid-90s not far from Ealing in West London where there is quite a high Asian population. The advert stipulated 'strict vegetarian' which I was but I'm not Hindu, though do have some Indian heritage.

I didn't know what it really meant at the time and when I visited I was grilled by an Indian woman on how strict a vegetarian I was.

This put me off so I looked elsewhere.

That site has similar adverts for house shares, even ones specifying that all existing occupants are 'Indian IT Professionals'.

[vetran]

Jeez, just listen to yourselves. How do you know the people involved are immigrants? I know many fifth generation Indians who are genuine UK citizens. And the immigration policies you are attacking were explicitly defined by Blair and Brown in their mad attempt at boosting their share of the votes in the 90s.

So blaming Sunak is both childish and inaccurate

And, just to complete the pack, discrimination on the basis of religion or caste is not racism, while it is reprehensible to our eyes it is an inherent part of their culture..

So I'll be off now. Go back to your crayons.

I'm more swayed by the Times of India's opinion for some reason.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...sed-on-racism/

According to recent findings of the NIBMG, based on the analysis of DNA samples collected from Indians belonging to 20 population groups, including different caste groups and tribals, we are descended primarily from four ancestral origins: North Indian, South Indian, Austro-Asian and Tibeto-Burman. There is a fifth niche grouping of the Andaman and Nicobar islanders who are descendants of Pacific Ocean migrants.

Barring the Andaman and Nicobar tribals, the other four population groups mingled and intermarried till about the 6^th century AD. Then, sometime during the Gupta period of about 1600 years ago, laws based on scriptural and social proscriptions created exclusivist divisions which prohibited intermarriage between these different genetic, or ethnic, groups.

Scientists of the NIBMG – whose conclusions have been corroborated and endorsed by Harvard Medical School’s David Reich – claim that the present-day caste distinctions trace their roots back to 70 generations of social differentiation based on genetic lines. Seen in this light, caste has a genetic – rather than just a social or occupational – basis, and as such is fundamentally racist in origin.

Apparently it doesn't matter how long you have been here its still racism.

[northernladuk]

Apparently it doesn't matter how long you have been here its still racism.

I assume they would turn away a westernised individual because they are no longer vegetarian or meet the strict critera they are after which can't really be racism but is definitely discrimination.

[vetran]

I assume they would turn away a westernised individual because they are no longer vegetarian or meet the strict critera they are after which can't really be racism but is definitely discrimination.

If the basis of the caste system is Racist - which it was always so if they reject an Indian its racist. As they are only looking for people of higher castes then a white / black westerner is never going to make the cut.