Don't let the thread title fool you, this is a serious thread. Lets push the envelope and ask some very probing questions. Lets not be pc either, if you have a genuine opinion, as controversial it may be, I want to hear it. Opinions will be judged on their inherent merit, and the evidence supporting it.
What is your opinion on immigration where you live? Too many, too few? Taking our jobs? Not speaking our language? Not integrating? Taking our women??? (last one is a joke btw lol).
I'll start the ball rolling; being someone born and raised in England, I think it is annoying and even rude, how some people from ethnic groups don't speak English properly, have no intention of learning, and yet they have lived here for decades. This is linked to the wider problem of certain ethnic groups being unwilling to integrate.
To give an example: my girlfriend works in retail (cooperative for those who know it) and every week a particular customer comes into the shop with her daughter.
The mother knows very little English, so she gets her 10 year old daughter to interpret for her. As I understand it, the daughter is obviously made to feel awkward by it, the mother sometimes uses some very broken English, points a lot, etc.
Add to this, she doesn't wear a headscarf (imo headscarfs are fine, old ladies and nuns wear them - seeing the face is an important part of communication); she wears a burqa that covers the face.
I'm not saying she shouldn't be allowed to wear one; this is a free country and I would definitely defend her right to wear one, but, well, its so impersonal. Do you not think? How can you possibly relate?
And man, you gotta feel sorry for the kid stuck doing that.
Well there, thats my opinion. Its very raw and honest. What are your opinions?
What is your opinion on immigration where you live? Too many, too few? Taking our jobs? Not speaking our language? Not integrating? Taking our women??? (last one is a joke btw lol).
I'll start the ball rolling; being someone born and raised in England, I think it is annoying and even rude, how some people from ethnic groups don't speak English properly, have no intention of learning, and yet they have lived here for decades. This is linked to the wider problem of certain ethnic groups being unwilling to integrate.
To give an example: my girlfriend works in retail (cooperative for those who know it) and every week a particular customer comes into the shop with her daughter.
The mother knows very little English, so she gets her 10 year old daughter to interpret for her. As I understand it, the daughter is obviously made to feel awkward by it, the mother sometimes uses some very broken English, points a lot, etc.
Add to this, she doesn't wear a headscarf (imo headscarfs are fine, old ladies and nuns wear them - seeing the face is an important part of communication); she wears a burqa that covers the face.
I'm not saying she shouldn't be allowed to wear one; this is a free country and I would definitely defend her right to wear one, but, well, its so impersonal. Do you not think? How can you possibly relate?
And man, you gotta feel sorry for the kid stuck doing that.
Well there, thats my opinion. Its very raw and honest. What are your opinions?