Just what we need, more immigrants!

[Gonzo]

In the end, no, but I think you are missing the point Gonzo, it's about the pace not the nature. For most of us "Our" culture is whatever we grow up with so if that is actually a mix of cultures from all sorts of origins it is not a problem in itself. It is when immigration changes our society at a faster rate then we can readily adapt to that we get problems.

People don't like change, it makes them feel uncomfortable. People are wrong. Change is good.

Without change, we'd all be living rough like our ancestors did tens of thousands of years ago. Does that appeal?

How long have the things that we think of as absolutely fundamental really been with us? Like most of us that were born and brought up in England, I feel a strong attachment to the country that is England*. But it has only existed for roughly 1,000 years and I suspect that it took a few hundred years before anyone living there started to think of it in that way, but they got on with their lives regardless.

Everything in the affairs of humans is transient. I don't lose any sleep over it. Of course I am now an immigrant in somebody else's country so I am bound to think immigration is OK.



*Yeah, I know that I don't live there any more but I will be up in the middle of the night tonight watching the England v Germany match.

[Troll]

What worries me more is the fact that nothing is being done about sterilising all the Chavs!!

But if we did that we wouldn't have had the benefit of your existence and associated insights

[Gibbon]

What can I say to something so eloquently put? T*t!

Lazy reposte 1/10.

[SofaKingdom]

Lazy reposte 1/10.

riposte

[shaunbhoy]

But if we did that we wouldn't have had the benefit of your existence and associated insights

You HAVEN'T had the benefit because all of my input goes over your head.

HTH