Posted on 06/14/2011 11:11:29 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
To have bad teeth and be an Anti-Semite.
It means never again having to say you're a Pakistani.
uber-liberal, scared $hi+less of muslims and believe in global warming?
Wow, this could have just as easily been written about the US.
I referred to a coworker as African-American in 1976. He was from the Bahamas. Boy did he lay into me.
I referred to a coworker as African-American in 1976. He was from the Bahamas. Boy did he lay into me.
Legal, illegal, it doesn't matter, destroying your culture and national identity, and replacing yourselves with a wholly new electorate that wants a different nation than your own, is not a smart, or patriotic thing to do.
I hear ya, UK.
However, we’re not far behind.
muslim-pandering homo?
Most people would identify with being English, Scottish or Welsh first and foremost these days.
British is just what my passport says.
All of that AND the spectre of Chuckles as King!
About the only one in England I would wish a burkha on would be Chuck’s mare, Camilla.
Pray for Great Britain-we are watching national suicide.
British is just what my passport says.
Yes, I was wondering about that. It's funny because in ads for the new Torchwood television series here, Welsh heroine Gwen takes strong exception at being called English by what appears to be an American.
As an avid history student, I am well aware that "nationality" is a slippery term with denizens of the U.K. But with the devolution of power to regional assemblies and the growth of the Scots independence movement, I wonder myself about the long term prospects for the U.K. What are your thoughts on the matter?
It just means the take over of U.K. is very successful and soon the U.K. will be considered just another troubled country at war within it’s self and ruled by sharia law.Very soon there will no more countries to go too.
To be completely honest, I am unsure what the future holds. In England at the moment, there appears to be a mentality of “bollocks to ‘em” with regards to the Scots. If they want to go on their own, good riddance. At least we won’t have to subsidise their prescriptions anymore. I’m not saying I agree with this, just that’s what most of the people I talk to, and blogs I read, seem to be thinking. Overall, I think it’d be sad if the union was broken up, despite my preference of being called English over British. We are stronger united, although a plus point would be England would probably never have a Labour government for a long, long time!
Then there’s the issue of the North Sea Oil Reserves. Can’t see any UK government allowing the scots to go it alone with all that money lying at the bottom of the ocean, regardless of how powerful the Scottish Nationalists become. These are interesting times.
I’ve been corrected by an Englishman who said he was “British.” And corrected by an English person who said she was “English.” For an outsider, it can get confusing!
“British by birth, English by the grace of God” :)
I am as Anglophilic as any grandson of Irish immigrants can be. I was stationed in the UK for five years and count them as seminal years of my life/career. Therefore, it pains me to say that the once-great UK is now paying the price for empire. The same can be said of France and Italy.
Most British people do not have bad teeth, and Britain is one of the least anti-semitic nations, contrary to popular belief.
Many beloved cultural icons from high street chains to entertainers in Britain have been openly Jewish.
And whilst Euope embraced Fascism and Communism, it was Britain who REJECTED the anti-semitism and fascism of Oswald Mosley and his British Fascists. And the modern Brit has time after time rejected the racist and anti-semitic BNP party and its offshoot the EDL, also a group with questionable attitudes to blacks and Jews amongst others.
It was Britain who took in tens of thousands of Jews from Europe before 1939. And it was Britain who stood against Nazism, alone for over a year as it turned out.
And it was Britain who gave the world the Balfour Declaration, not America or France or Russia.
Even when between 1944 and 1948, Jewish terrorists in Palestine such as the Irgun and Stern Gang were murdering and bombing British soldiers, there was little antisemitism as a result.
Frankly, I am getting sick and tired of people distorting British history to portray the British people as antisemitic. The British have been the opposite.
Antisemitism today is confined to various groups such as the BNP/neo nazis on one side and the more extreme pro-Palestinians on the other.
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