zan wrote:I love being British Baggieboy but I have one thing that really bugs me about the Brits and that is this attitude of that is all you need to live anywhere in the world. What I mean is that being English gives you the only passport you need in life and no country can refuse you. Of course I am using the general YOU and not you personally. I have a very good friend that moved to SA and before he went he ran down all the foreigners that were coming to the UK. His words for leaving the UK were "Too many foreigners". If he was a slightly better friend I would have asked him exactly what he would be in SA but I could not do that to him. When we visited them last year they did not waste time in moaning about some places that did not treat them as they expected to be treated.
The moral of the story is that the English are nice people in general but do not forget that you are in someone Else's country. No disrespect to yourselves.
you speak a lot of sense zan an i respect what you have to say after reading some of your many threads on here.
personally as an English immigrant i have found that most Cypriots have been warm and welcoming to us. indeed our first indication of this was when we where looking to rent our apartment was the reaction on the phone when whatever estate agent rang a prospective landlord was are they English ??? when the response was yes, the reply was that is endaxi then !!!!
this was a good indication to myself on how real Cypriots felt about English
people living amongst them, in true Cypriot areas. in other words they where used to the English as they had been around the English for so long.
as far as get real seems to think growing up in the seventies (as i was) at school let me tell you at least 5 out of ten kids that i knew as friends and equals where Greek Cypriot !!! in the Birmingham area where i lived as a child. these kid where 1st generation Anglo Cypriot who followed Aston villa or Birmingham city football clubs, spoke with broad Birmingham accents and hung out with all us normal English kids with no difference that was apparent apart from the fact that most of there moms and dads owned chip shops and they where forced to work there during weekends, when they should have been chasing girlie's with us
the only people who suffered racial torment from us (including these Cypriot kids who we considered our own) where the Pakistani immigrants who we unfortunately treated like shit
if get real was treated badly at a UK school it must of been due to him being a geek, or gay, or due to the big chip (probably from his dads chip shop
) on his shoulder
in my honest humble opinion during the seven tees Greek Cypriot kids where always accepted into normal English envoironments without exception !!!!!!
not the same for Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Afro caribbean!!!!!
