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Originally Posted by Cloud
very interesting. are there gangs of drunken youths caroming around suburban Britain?
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Originally Posted by Perry Winkle
From my experience, most definitely yes. I see rampant displays of racism daily, too: people verbally and, less commonly, physically abusing someone they perceive as foreign.
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Originally Posted by limey
Sad but true.
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For the sake of balance.
I have never heard anyone be directly racist to another person in my life. 35 years in England and not one verbal or physical address. I've heard muttered comments. I've heard racist jokes. I've overheard racist views, but they have only been espoused in peer groups - mostly in pubs, mostly by old men. Occasionally unwitting racism from the sort of people who have friends in a different ethnic group but think they must be different - it's "the other type" they have a problem with.
And yes - there is a problem with drink culture in Britain. But again - I have not seen drunken youths "in suburbia". Certainly not where I live. I lived on the main route between the Uni and the city centre in Leicester. Yes, drunken youths did roll up the street in the early hours of the morning. But it was a University town.
And yes I know there are hotspots where people are apparently afraid to go out because of drunken misbehaviour. But the media blow it out of proportion imho. There are areas worldwide where people are afraid to leave their houses. If the worst we have in the UK is that after 23.00 people think they might encounter a bunch of half cut slappers that will fall over on their own, let alone if they're pushed, then I don't see that as dowtown Baghdad.
Oh and the papers love to blame the Govt. And the tabloids love to blame the parents (under the influence of the Govt). And the parents love to blame the teachers. And the teachers blame the parents under the influence of the media. Well if we have such a generation of degenerates I say do a King Herod, slaughter the lot and make people apply for child permits to reproduce in future. That'll halt the damn liberal slide into hell, right?
(Sorry, rant above influenced by Radio 5 phone in last week that I couldn't beleive what I was hearing).