Quasi la metà dei britannici si sente come “estranei nel loro paese”
Almost half of Britons feel like ‘strangers in their own country’
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
Quasi la metà dei britannici si sente come “estranei nel loro paese”
Almost half of Britons feel like ‘strangers in their own country’
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
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God knows I do, feels like I’m surrounded by hateful people who look down on me and my family just because we’re Roma, my family fully integrated 2 generations ago but that’s not enough for the racists who surround me.
My kid got beaten up a few years back because a bunch of kids at his school found out we’re a Roma family, very uneducated kids mind you as besides calling him a dirty gypsy they also called him a traveller.
Until the racists are put in check this will always feel like I’m a stranger in my own country
Edit: Spelling
If this data is accurate, it’s a sad indictment of how easily manipulated people are. More than half of Britons are surrounded by 99% British natives and they still feel victimised by the mere existence of immigrants.
A self inflicted psychosis.
edit: hilarious how many very smart people seem unfamiliar with the concept of hyperbole. Immigrants tend to move primarily to high population areas where they can find work. With very few exceptions, the overwhelming number of places in England are incredibly heavily White British.
The vast majority of people will spend very, very, very little time with immigrants outside of places like London, and even in London, they’re still the largest demographic by a massive margin (and if you make a distinction between white British and black British for the purpose of “feeling like a stranger” you’re a racist anyway).
Even if that WEREN’T the case, feeling like a stranger because some people around you come from other places is a massive skill issue.
If you want to make an argument against immigration, do it, don’t use ridiculous emotive language that does nothing but betray that you’re a racist moron.
What happens in a democracy when >50% of people want something?
There’s a real problem with the atomisation of British society.
People live further from where they work. People drive more and walk/ take public transport less. Local pubs are closing because people spend more social/leisure time at home. Community groups are declining as facilities close/ People have less free time.
None of these are particularly bad things in themselves but ot means more and more people are only spending time at work, in their home or with people they are very close to.
The loose connections between people that you kind of know are becoming rarer, because people just aren’t spending time with neighbours the way they used to.
It’s got basically nothing to do with immigration.
Vote consistently for Thatcherite “no such thing as society” politics for 40 years straight and this is the result.
They don’t feel like strangers because of immigration, they feel like strangers because they live in a soulless neoliberal hellhole.
This is what happens when successive governments chase GDP, invite the world with unchecked migration, immigration and refeguee status instead of looking after the population.
Before some lefty champagne socialist screams racism at me, immigration is good for the country, globalisation is good for the country.
Unchecked letting any tom, dick and Harry in is not good for the country.
I know how you feel.
Large surge of foreign workers here in Singapore.
Nearly 60% foreigner workers or newly minted citizens
So… “Most Britons feel at home in their own country.”?
People have been saying this for decades. In the sixties people were saying this.
I think a lot of this is because we’re lonely. We’re losing third spaces, a lot of us have no real community, and we’re constantly being played off against each other. I wonder if we greeted strangers as friends rather than enemies, we ourselves would feel less like strangers.
Is this due to other cultures or due to just seeing non-whites around you?
My dad comes out with shit like this and he lives in, statistically, one of the whitest, oldest populations in the UK.
I do- it’s nothing to do with ethnicity or nationality.
When the fuck did people decide it was ok to park their full car on the pavement, all 4 wheels! Blocking the pavement for people with buggies, wheelchair, mobility scooters etc
Given anything else—I think this is a sign that society is slipping
So if all these British people feel like strangers, are they doing anything in their local community to change things or just complaining?
I certainly feel like a stranger to my neighbours on the left side specifically. But that’s because they refuse to integrate. Our roads demographic has changed over the last 10 years but they refuse to speak to any of us. We’ve taken them food, taken their parcels, tried to wave and do a bit of chit chat but they just look at us with an evil side eye. Them and their kids when they visit say the most vile things and we can hear them clearly as they sit in the back garden often enough. And yea, they’re white.
So when you say a country of strangers. To me that means those that refuse to accept reality and refuse to integrate with it.
Sounds like a confidence issue if they feel like that in their own country