Monday, August 05, 2024

the on the street report about British riots

so is it the extreme nationalist British bigots behind the white riots, or the locals who see these outsiders as freeloaders? How many of the rioters are the same guys who as football fans have started fights after games?

And when a lot of the immigrants are from Eastern Europe, the West Indies, Africa, the Philippines and other Christian lands, not to mention the Hindu Indians, why is the spotlight on just the Muslims, who have been aggressive in trying to bully locals into accepting sharia?

Our family is in the middle of this: We have relatives there who are caregivers. They are now patriotic Brits, and I have to laugh at their accents when their kids, who grew up in England, are more British than Filipino. 

So are all immigrants being attacked, or just  the outsiders who refuse to assimilate, and/or the more recent immigrants who are seen as freeloaders? 

These are supposed to be refugees, but many paid a lot of money to get to Europe from the hellholes of Africa and the Middle East, meaning they are rich enough to pay coyotes (and exploit the UN and NGOs) to move them to an area where they can be safe? 

the assimilation of immigrants in Europe is a problem, because of excess nationalism. 

In contrast, in the USA, we all are of mixed background.

so why is there a problem? Racism? Or is it envy because immigrants will work and get jobs by those who want to hire hard workers, not drug taking locals?

I ask this partly in view of the Governor of Minnesota being selected to be a possible US VP. 

You see, the dirty little secret is that there is a lot of tension in high schools in the Minneapolis area, including between Somalis and the local black population.   (long history of Somali vs Bantu and the BantuSomalis who are many of those resettled in the USA is the cultural background for this).

I have a blogpost with references on this here.

They also have other minorities in Minneapolis who are invisible to the US MSM and never get quoted (the large Hmong population, and the Native Americans who are now living off the res in the city to get jobs). 

Yes, Minneapolis is diverse, but run by the white liberal elites, and this ignores not only the minorities but the large Scandinavian farm population. So no I don't know what is going on in the UK, or even in the USA, but the dispossessed are now being encouraged to fight each other (which is a long standing tactic to control the masses and of course making those who spread drugs or take bribes not to stop the gangs spreading them), and of course, the open drug use makes things worse.

Notice I don't mention the group that in the US is the cause of a lot of resentment: The large Hispanic population who often settle in a Hispanic area and find jobs and assimilate as what Teddy Roosevelt called "hyphenated Americans" but who in a generation or two will be just ordinary Yanks, like the Russian Jews or the Irish or the Italians or the Polish immigrants.


So what is the answer? Revolution as in France, or a religious revival as in the UK when such as when the Methodists reformed people in the slums while also working for social betterment.

the problem of those with the Islamic faith might be a problem, especially in Europe where prejudice is worse. But ironically in the USA, the ordinary Muslim has more in common with the working class Republicans as social conservatives, and history suggests that the immigrant cycle of living in ethnic neighborhoods and attending ethnic churches, the second generation slowly moving out to the main community, and the third generation becoming full blooded Americans will continue to work to assimilate them.


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