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AOG
You wrote:
"Also they do not seem to attract the wrath from their own ethnic minorities as do the English."
Well...I hate to bring this up - but perhaps it's because immigrants and the English/Irish/Scottish because they have a shared cultural relationship with the English.
Have you ever noticed that how well blacks and Irish get on...almost automatically?
My assumption is that if culturally, you have 'been put at a disadvantage' by the English, you almost automatically feel a bond?
Just a theory I'm throwing out.
Re: finding the post where you said that blacks and Asians aren't English. I have to concede...it's going to be impossible. I could search through all your posts, and all mine, but I can't remember if *either* of us raised the original post.
However, if you are willing to state that you agree that someone born and raised in England, no matter what their racial background , have the same right to call themselves 'English as their white counterpart...without qualification (and by that, I mean they should be able to complain about the government, campaign for political and social change, and be as unpatriotic as any white Emglishman without their 'Englishness' being questioned).