I got to thinking about all the emails we receive on a daily basis and how many of them are negative. Do we, who receive and send these negative emails, usually about immigrants, once and a while sit back and think them through a little or do we just happily forward them continuing the negativity?
I'm an immigrant; or as we Brits like to say to sugar-coat it a bit, an "ex pat". What ever you call it, I'm still a person living in a country I wasn’t born in and I've done so for over 40 years. Now, does that make me a leech on the society I choose to live in, or is that different because I'm English?
With the Schengen agreement a great part of the population of Europe are now immigrants, wandering from country to country, are they also leeches? And yet these emails pour disdain on certain groups, admittedly because a minority are criminal and ruin it for the majority, but they are still a very small minority.
What we Brits don’t seem to realise is that we have been and still are some of the worst emigrants on this earth. Just look at our history and see the conflicts we have started due to our greed and ignorance.
I've noticed, through the years how many people move to foreign climes and immediately start complaining about the way things are done in the country they have moved to. Having left their own country in the first place because of the situation there!
I personally know Britain’s who have lived and worked in Norway for as long as I have, 42 years and still don’t speak Norwegian. I have now met Britain’s in Spain who have created their own "Little Britain" ghettos, with chip shops, karaoke bars, bowls clubs and goodness knows what else. In fact in some areas its difficult to find Spanish businesses and restaurants. Some of those we have met have lived here for ten years and more and yes you have guessed it, they don’t speak a word of Spanish and haven’t the foggiest idea of what is going on in the country because all they watch is Coronation street and Eastenders on the television.
British, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German and French ghettoes are perhaps a little more affluent than other ghettoes but never the less they are ghettoes; designed to keep the “natives” out and the immigrants in. The majority of these immigrants are of course are law abiding citizens, just as the majority of "other" immigrants are law abiding citizens. But did you know for example that Marbella was and still is; to a large degree, built on British criminal money? Originally in the sixties Spain didn’t have an extradition treaty with the UK so it was a haven for British criminal gangs. Or did you know that most of the burglaries committed in the "Costas" at present are committed by British criminals taking a busman’s holiday?
By all means, I'm not saying we should open our doors to anybody who wants to come in or indeed make naive cash hand outs to illegals and other non deserving cases, but I am saying, lets think a little before we forward some of the rubbish we receive in our in-boxes.
Neither Britain or any other country in the world gives money to citizens of poorer countries without "strings attached", we earn on it in some way, with for example, building contracts, oil deals, weapons deals (just to keep things unstable and more lucrative for us) and loans that many of the countries don’t really need and cant really afford, to do things that they don’t really have a use for, all quietly negotiated by our little grey eminences who sneak around the corridors in Whitehall, making themselves and the country richer.
Admittedly, we don't indiscriminately bomb innocents (well officially not and only some of the time anyway) but our governments have created the problem we complain about. SO; where should we really be pointing the finger of contempt?
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Saludos desde el sol!
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Saludos desde el sol!
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