Has Britain Gained Anything From Multiculturalism?

[anotheoldgit]

This is the negative side of Multiculturalism, Pakistani child grooming gangs, British bred Islamic terrorists and Black on Black killings on our streets.

[Peter Pedant]

oh thx
the post war socialist paradise - this was part of anti-sweat shop legislation
Barmaids in victorian times could work up to 18 h a day....

how quickly people forget ......
and revert to the 'good old days' ....

[jambutty]

Brilliant, brilliant best answer. Says it all.

[jim360]

Humans don't "breed".

[andres]

I can't be bothered ploughing through all that shop legislation detail. All I know is that 'off-licence'shops in our area stayed open during pub hours in the days of yore.

[Peter Pedant]

that I think was because pubs kept pub hours
( from 1917 - the 'shell shortage' was ascribed to muinitions workers drinking their wages and skipping work)

those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it

best answer is brain dead as far as I am concerned

[mushroom25]

//Humans don't "breed". //

yes they do Jim - they breed whippets and pigeons, etc.....

[andres]

What's wrong with whippets and racing pigeons? ^^^

[Theland]

The violence and the scale of it often gets conveniently ignored on here.
Who cares about cuisine when it is conditional on scum killing us?

[kvalidir]

Scum being whom Theland?

[Old_Geezer]

Of course humand breed; they produce offspring by gestation.

[rowanwitch]

There seems to be some sort of misconception about humans, we are animals, tool using, clothes wearing, highly evolved animals so we breed, excrete, etc like any other. That being accepted our behaviour has parallels in nature, in territorialism, in competition, and in conflict with rivals and perceived threats. On this basis all humans are the same species, it is only socialization, and training the things that create cultures that makes us seem to differ.

Our barriers are our tribal territories on a larger scale. Had we all remained in our own places eventually we ,like Darwin's finches would become different species unable to interbreed, this has not happened. I am not saying that there aren't those within the world's sub groups who for whatever reason don't conform but like reports of rogue creatures, these are very rare, but the act of reporting increases the seriousness of how the situation is seen. The British Empire was not all Tiffin and tea, or pink gin and children banished to the nursery it was a time of suppression,repression and appalling abuses.

[Theland]

Bombers?

[RobNorth]

Anyone who thinks that immigrants don't mix hasn't been watching TV adverts....

[vetuste_ennemi]

//how quickly people forget ...... and revert to the 'good old days' //

This deliberate (or perhaps witless) mischaracterisation is very tiresome.

The critics of multi-culturalism (which is not the same thing as pluralism) do not attack it out of nostalgia. They attack it because they can make the distinction between change which is useful and change which isn't.

[Theland]

My removed answer was one word.
Reference to people who plant bombs.
How is that offensive and would warrant censorship?

[Theland]

How silly of me.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes"

[Theland]

My question in the eds blog regarding censorship has been .......... Censored!
Funny if not so sad.