Comments on: Rising Racial Tensions in the UK?

By: JB

JB — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:21:43 +0000

No all British are racist people or Anti-Asian, but in recent years the rate of racism has significantly increased. Reason?
1. The rise of Asia? (maybe afraid of India,Russia and China getting a better life), or joy to see asian living like dog. 2. British investing in asia causing unemployment in UK? or feeling uneasy to see asian getting a job which is lower paid, so call cheap labor. 3. Some lower class British people felt unbalance, when they saw rich "asian" businessmen/women?
4. Discrimination to those "asian" who had different believe? To force muslim to eat pork, forcing Buddist to eat beef, and forcing to chance their asian name to a BRITISH NAME!!!

All those above are assumptions. Most common things happen in Australia and USA!!! White dominant countries. Before you criticize Every Thing Above, Please read more historical articles, and history background on UK. You will find THE TRUE side of WHITE!

By: Pork Sword Militia

Pork Sword Militia — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:22:19 +0000

The issue facing the world today is that the Muslims are trying to take over the world. I have spent 4 years in Iraq and Afghanistan trying to help these people. There is no help for a society that has chosen poverty and illiteracy because the other option would interfere with their religion. These people are never going to change unless they want to. If you are one of the individuals that has overcome the adversity to become a productive citizen then I respect that. although there are too many immigrants that just keep coming in and trying to stake claim in the U.S. in my opinion the borders need to be shut, and a nation wide illegal immigrant clear out needs to happen. That will prevent allot of the extremist bullshit that some of these brainwashed religious freaks have committed or attempted to commit on the soil of the US and the UK. When Australia told all of the immigrants Â“this is a Christian community if you don’t like it GET OUTÂ” they were 100% right. These people expect us to be sensitive to their culture while we are in their country, but, they think they do not have to respect our religion and ways of life in the US. How would Pakistan like it if one of the leaders of the US had asked any and all willing Americans to go to Pakistan and have as many children as possible to turn it into a Christian society in the next 100 years? There would be a war from them. If you don’t want it to happen to your country! Then don’t do it to ours. There is no reason that things have to be this way, everyone has their own country that speaks their own language, and has their religion, go there and stay there do not mix in where you do not belong. Unless you are willing and able to drop all of the Muslim brainwashing about some degenerate that converted people at sword point, is a known Pedophile, and has no proof other than he said he saw something. Come on! There has got to be at least one of you in that faith that says WHOA!! I think that marrying a girl at the age of 6 and having intercourse with her when she was 9 is wrong and he needed to be shot for such an act. Get with the rest of the world and conform to where you are, don’t think the world will conform to you. Just to make a point, I do not claim any religious sect or belief just because of this crap, that all of the religious nut jobs think if they blow themselves up! They go to heaven. Bullshit!! What needs to happen, is when they detonate the bomb and blow them up, there needs to be someone that takes the remains and feeds it to the pigs. How about that for the extremist who tries it and lives. He would have a bad ending by the swineÂ’s!! And as for some type of recourse to the Iraqi militias, we need to give them some of their own medicine and start sending out car bombs of our own and see how they like it.

By: brownieman12345

brownieman12345 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:06:37 +0000

umm.. yea iv’e seen some comments on sikhs not supporting the BNP even though the BNp do say their are… well the reality is that their are alot of sikh supporters of the bnp me bieng one of them

By: Huey

Huey — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:42:36 +0000

Thanks. I have another question: What have black people done to have negative reactions and avoidance from South Asians?

Not all black people come from Uganda or Guyana. Do they ever learn about slavery or Jim Crow/Civil Rights Movement, etc. or anything about black/African American history before coming to America?

By: Jai

Jai — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:25:23 +0000

Huey,

Younger-generation desis and black people generally used to get along very well and there was a lot of appropriation of black culture by the young desis concerned (to some extent there still is), but in recent years this has changed as British desis have grown in numbers and public prominence, along with the rise of an indigenous "British desi" subculture.

The two groups aren't really as amicable towards each other as they used to be, broadly-speaking. However, it does depend on where you go and who you speak to.

By: Huey

Huey — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:25:59 +0000

I was quite curious about the black/desi relations in the UK compared to those in the US and the Caribbean. Are they equally the same? Do both groups get along or not?

By: Rupinder

Rupinder — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:46:26 +0000

The Kriss Donald story does prove that prejudice and evil work both ways. See the posts re the Africans in India blog, and you will see the proof

By: Sunit

Sunit — Sat, 13 May 2006 22:57:54 +0000

Surprised nobody mentioned that the wealthiest person living in the UK as actually a desi… I’m sure that helps our profile there as well

(btw, i’ve just started watching a few “goodness gracious me” sketches… i think alot of these would never be aired in america, especially the “lets go out for an english” scene

By: DR1001

DR1001 — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:45:01 +0000

Hear hear to sentiments from BB and Rahul.

I’ve grown up in the UK and lived in the states for just 5 years. Asains are far more predominate in everyday society in the UK and at all levels. I do agree with the premise that there is some rasicm of course in the UK and more so now post 7/7/ towards muslims but it’s not as bad as it may seem . The rascism to Asains is a little like what happens to Blacks here in the US to an extent as someone stated but agin it’s not as bad . My mate who is a Black Brit living here in NY states she can’t walk down the street in Harlem with her white BF here in NY without getting stares and hassle….that surprised me that this still happens A lot of communites in the states are far more isolated by race than in the UK where there are hotspots like Bradford etc yes but nothing like it is here in the US where smetimes whole regions are predominately one race and the surrounding areas cater to that community in the types of shops, entertainment etc found…eg Russsians :Brighten Beach, Flushing : Chinese, NJ Jersey City: desis, NJ Palisades area: Korean and so on. It’s not a bad thing but i feel uk is far more integrated than people realise.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Thu, 11 May 2006 10:45:27 +0000

The American desis posting their biased and convoluted viewpoints here make me laugh, considering that it seems like a lot of their opinion is filtered through what their baba told them from his time "in UK" scurrying around Manchester or somewhere grim up north decades ago.

I have lived in the US for close to 10 years and in the UK for more than that. IMO, from my own experience, the UK and especially London is a lot more welcoming to a brown person such as myself than the US. For the reasons touched on in earlier posts: Indians are more high-profile and play a significant part in daily life. There are a number of brown people in every segment of society, from check-out girls to business tycoons and cutting edge artists. They are not pigeon-holed.