miltiades wrote:Paphitis wrote:miltiades wrote:die7 wrote:I learned: Nobody has to ''adapt'', cause to live your personal life is erybodies right. You just have to accept the law! (I wish the Cypriots in Cyprus would)
Then try and go to Saudi Arabia and you will soon find that you have to adapt!
Immigrants have been arriving in the UK for years and years, the vast majority including the blacks do adapt, it seems though that certain immigrants with a medieval culture not only do not but also aspire to introduce their culture into the UK. FGM comes to mind, forced marriages and even honour killings. Bugger off if you do not like our way of life.
And the new arrivals will adapt.
I have seen them open businesses, and I am a regular visitor to their businesses because I like the types of food and paraphernalia that they sell straight from Afghanistan.
It is a very rich culture and people, much more rich than you which I can say without any shadow of doubt. They learn English, are generally very happy people, and I want them to keep their beautiful culture just like many Italians, and Greeks have because it enriches our country. They become a part of our country, contribute, have a strong work ethic and value education for their young so I feel very much ok with them.
I'm the kind of guy that could sit down in their establishments and complain that they have English Music. I like their music. Variety is the spice of life, and I really like exotic cultures some more than others.
Long winded garbage, your trade mark Mr ...Nato!! Stay there, why not attend a public execution or mutilation, then you can tell us all about this ..fascinating culture. If your lucky you may get to witness a "stoning" perhaps throw a stone your self as a gesture of your fascination with their ....beautiful culture
By the way Im a realist not a racist or a fucking idiot like you!
Not garbage at all. I feel a certain affinity to them.
Some decades ago, when the first huge waves of Greek and Italian migrants were arriving in America and Australia, there were many bigots like you in those countries that showed an enormous amount of intolerance and even racism towards our people. Those were tough times for our ancestors (parents) because American and Australian bigots and arseholes like you were in abundance. We would hear the same claims back then that we migrants would not adapt and integrate. Fact is they didn't want them to integrate and this was just a cover for their intolerance and racism. But not only did they integrate, but they became successful and thrived, and the newer waves will do the exact same thing because I see the exact same values in them that the initial big Italian and Greek post WWW2 migration waves.
Today, we hear the same things, but this time the targets are the newer arrivals from the Middle East and Afghanistan and this time we have many Greeks and Italians who were victims of the very same chorus of intolerance as you yourself have done whilst forgetting your origins and that you yourself experienced what they are experiencing today.
Sorry, but I am a migrant like them too, my parents went through what they are going through and I am certainly not going to unleash any hatred towards them at all. I instead look for the things I like about them and I find many things that I do like about them and many things I like much better about them even more than I like about Cypriots, Australians and other westerners.
I am a very happy chappy at a Sheisha Lounge drinking a nice tea and enjoying a couple of little pastry dishes whilst listening to their lovely music. I look exactly like them to. An Arab!