Bias due to color is present even among Asians. People over here tend to appreciate the fair among us , I don't see why?
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:52 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Even limping with Pegida (here the English Defence League) one doesn't > find much outright racism. People are concerned about their own economic > situation, fears of Asian mobbing and actually disgusting practices in > child abuse, female castration, forced marriages, honour killings, kids not > being able to move into their own housing, cooking smells, noise, crime, > not feeling at home in their own streets and the swamping of school, > welfare and health services. The lack of jobs, depression of wages and > much more is on people's minds. These people may be right of wrong. For > years, they have been considered wrong and racist, though in the main, they > are the people I've found actually living with these problems and with > other cultures at their doorstep. > > We are told that immigration is good for us and that high-level skills are > imported. 440 Germans died to a man at Waterloo after emigrating here, the > NHS is staffed by Asian and other 'third world' staff trained abroad. All > this stuff has hidden content, not least on how it is we can't train our > own people, even to run corner shops, drive taxis and run fast food > businesses - and how third world countries don't need the doctors and > nurses. People who would never dream of open racist comment attend church > and do almost anything not to have their white kids attend predominately > ethnic schools. Faith schools are built, so keen are some to integrate. > > Politicians of the right have sensed the dissatisfaction and have moved to > UKIP. No one remembers, but the UK had a major civil war over 'race' > (religion) in Northern Ireland based on many of these factors between the > privileged Proddies and exploited Provos. This scales up on a per capita > basis to 100,000 mainland deaths or half-a-million in the USA. Idi Amin > exiled 80,000 Asians and Fiji had a military coup. Israel has chronic > apartheid. Black people are unhappy in various ghettos and often in prison > in the US. > > I've seen far more racism abroad than in the West. We haven't done enough > to get rid of it. Yet we seem to assume this is a white on others matter > and it is not. The problems in my view are deeply economic and > ideological. They are so deep I doubt we can eat a tin of tuna or make a > mobile phone call without being involved in this 'racism'. > > And very deep in this 'racism' quickly re-emerges in peoples who have > lived peacefully side by side for years. > > On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:36:32 AM UTC, archytas wrote: >> >> Martin Luther King is in our thoughts at this time of year. I've never >> been able to hack racism, yet feel there is little honest discussion of the >> matter. It is still in place all over the world, though in the UK it is >> not as obvious as in my youth and there have been improvements. I have two >> problems in mind: >> >> 1. The situation is rarely viewed from the perspective of poor indigenous >> people suffering housing problems, work and wage pressures - now including >> many ethnic minorities >> 2. The meritocracy system we have is based on a flawed concept and is >> easily cheated by educational advantages, inheritance and class-based >> networking. >> >> Few here are now openly race prejudiced, yet it remains easy to see many >> problems remain. I won't be watching either of the next two soccer world >> cups because they are in profoundly racist countries, but most don't care >> enough to boycott such. Any views out there? >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
