Is It Arrogant To Say "this Is My Country"?

[anotheoldgit]

It has been said that by a fortunate accident of birth we are born in this country, but that does not give us the sole right of ownership, when it comes to letting others into our country.

We may not have the same right has we do to our ownership of portions of the land, which some of us have chosen to buy along with the buildings upon such land.

But in a way our forefathers have made great sacrifices, both by their labours and lives in which to build this country of ours into a decent land for their descendants to live in.

So why should we now allow others in who have put nothing in the 'pot' so as to speak, but have chosen to sit back and watch the world go by, instead of putting any effort whatsoever in bringing their countries up to a decent standard living, that now seems to attract them here?

[bazwillrun]

"We might not have turned them into Utopias but we did stop a lot of them eating each other, chucking live wives on the dead husband's funeral pyres and other such 'foreign' habits. "

brilliant..
if it werent for our colonialisng just imagine the state most of those places would still be in...and you think theyre bad now...

[tamborine]

McFluff...//the native inhabitants who were in a lot of cases forced into british rule didn't exactly see a lot of democracy, fair laws etc//

In the Far East Brit Forces fought against chinese & japanese occupation at the request of kings & leaders of countries....only because GB had superior armoury. Same invitation from India to settle the Maharajas in fighting.