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darkhall67 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1935	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #45 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:30pm Andrei.Hicks wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:23pm: I have never understood You could have stopped there.
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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #46 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:31pm From a bloke who refuses to live in Australia yet tells everyone how they should live..... Yep, a fine person to comment. You stick to your rice and chicken.
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Reply #47 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:34pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:31pm:

From a bloke who refuses to live in Australia yet tells everyone how they should live.....

Yep, a fine person to comment.

You stick to your rice and chicken.

"Refuses to live in australia?"

What are you on about?

"Tells everyone how they should live."

What are you on about?

"Rice and chicken?"

What are you on about?

Three epic fails from the "I'm not a racist but..."walter mitty.

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Verge Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6329 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #48 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:45pm This boat people argument is making me dizzy. Same old thing, and around and around we go. Things wont change.
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Reply #49 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:48pm

Thing is though, something has to be done.

I was back in England the other week and you walk down some streets in the cities and you would no longer think you were in England.

These people who come ghettoise communities, they don't mingle with their host culture and they stick to their own kind.
It kills the social fabric of the host nation but for me it also is a total waste of money.

We give pensioners a pissy $30 increase, people who have paid into the country all their lives.

Then we give these boatloads of shoe shiners apartments and living expenses.
Madness.

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Reply #50 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:52pm

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I was back in England the other week and you walk down some streets in the cities and you would no longer think you were in England.

Agreed.

I was cycling around the Dubbo Western Plains Zoo once and ran into a couple from London. They were talking to me about how great Australia is and how great Dubbo was in particular. The subject of what the U.K is like came up and they told me that living there is a game of "spot the Englishman". They obviously were alienated greatly by this and found Dubbo, with its evident ethnic homogenity and its population, being primarily of British extraction, comforting. I felt bad for them but didn't know what to think until I returned to London a few years after. They were right.

It isn't Britain anymore. It's the Caliphrate of Subcontinental Afro-Carribeans. All that is happening is that you are quite literally making a nation less like a family. The bonds of genetic-relatedness keep us together within nations greater than any other force. And this has been demonstrated countlessly in the literature.

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #51 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:06pm In Leicester and Bradford constituencies, the trend is that there will be more Pakistani and Indian people than British people. This in 2 major British cities. That is what happens.
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JC Denton Gold Member Offline Posts: 5492 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #52 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:08pm South is worse than the North in most areas I think.
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Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #53 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:10pm Funny how the Brits, in the first instance, felt entitled to colonise other countries and establish a self-serving flow of goods, services, capital, information and people... What part/s of 'free trade' and 'globalisation' don't these Westerners understand!?
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JC Denton Gold Member Offline Posts: 5492 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #54 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:11pm Yeah, and then it is likewise funny that all the people in the places they chose to colonise wanted independence so badly, but now that they have it they all want to come to the U.K.
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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #55 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:12pm JC Denton wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:08pm: South is worse than the North in most areas I think. Depends. Yorkshire and Lancashire have an appalling amount of South Asians now. Manchester has a lot of blacks. London is still the melting pot though. The shires are still nice.
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Reply #56 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:22pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:12pm:

JC Denton wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:08pm:

South is worse than the North in most areas I think.

Depends.

Yorkshire and Lancashire have an appalling amount of South Asians now.
Manchester has a lot of blacks.

London is still the melting pot though.

The shires are still nice.

Apart from those dirty , hairy hobbits .

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Reply #57 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:30pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:06pm:

In Leicester and Bradford constituencies, the trend is that there will be more Pakistani and Indian people than British people.

This in 2 major British cities.

That is what happens.

I hear that in New Mexico, they have more American people than Mexican people.

If this trend continues...

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JC Denton Gold Member Offline Posts: 5492 Gender:	Re: And STILL they come....more Boat people Reply #58 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:33pm Then it'll be New America.
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Reply #59 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 1:55pm

JC Denton wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 12:52pm:

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I was back in England the other week and you walk down some streets in the cities and you would no longer think you were in England.

Agreed.

I was cycling around the Dubbo Western Plains Zoo once and ran into a couple from London. They were talking to me about how great Australia is and how great Dubbo was in particular. The subject of what the U.K is like came up and they told me that living there is a game of "spot the Englishman".

If they were from London, they're either full of sh!t, or very, very thick.

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