Re: More about racism

Karyn <karyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:24:59 +0000, Rowland McDonnell wrote:

<toadfish@(nospam)beeb.net> wrote:

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<jumps in>

I've smelt it on your breath at times - maybe you've directed that
tendency somewhere slightly different? It's built in to Scottish culture,
is hating the English, that much I have noticed. Ditto Welsh culture.

And also Ditto the English culture, when i was growing up in England, i
was often told to "fuck off back to where i came from" not nice when
you are a nine year old....

Ah well, that's *mostly* the English having it in for pretty much *any*
outsider. As far as the rest of it goes - well, y'know what? Quite a
lot of English people have got thoroughly sick and tired of the casual
anti-English comments and implications from the Welsh and Scots.

People like me are aware that it's not *everyone* who's up to this sort
of stuff - but it's not nice, and understandable to an extent if there's
a bit of `having a go back'. Doesn't explain why anyone should have a
go at a nine year old, but I do still recall seeing a bunch of white
kids trying to come up with a racist insult for a pair of black girls (I
too was five at the time), and deciding to taunt them with `chocolate',
to which the response was `ice cream' as I stood and looked on in
bafflement.

Oh and i do not hate the English,

Just 'cos some do, doesn't mean all do.

i married an English man,

Means not a thing - specific instances are always capable of over-riding
general principles; hence the Nazi's bleats of `Some of my best friends
are Jews'. Obviously even the maddest nationalist nutjobs in Britain
cannot be compared to that lot, but the point's still valid.

and all three
of my kids were born here in England..

Well, yes, but I've met English-hating people living permanently in
London (loony nationalist types). At least the bloody IRA didn't
actually hate individual `ordinary' Brits.

So that proves nothing either.

One further thing i will add, and
this it totally unfair to the English, When i got married, i was asked
where i was born, i told them Glasgow, so they put down my nationality as
Scottish (i agree with that totally) My hubby was then asked the same
question, he replied Cambridge, and they put down his nationality as
British, I was not happy about that, i asked why they could not put down
English, and was told that it was "not proper to do so" I then asked why
my nationality was not stated as British, Answer, "but you are
Scottish"...Probably a silly thing on my part, but it peeved me..

Umm. We're all British - I reckon it's wrong to put Scots and Welsh
down as anything but British, so that's where the unfairness lies in my
book.

Then again, I'm an anti-nationalist anarchist.

[snip]

Rowland.

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