Racism is about race. There could be other reasons such as nationalism, language even perhaps diet, why people are disliked by the locals.
It is a common human trait to avoid people who are different from ourselves. It makes people insecure. Perhaps it is some sort of a survival strategy.
Even in India, which is perhaps one of the most diverse nations in the world, we don't like it if people from different regions or linguistic groups or diet or religion or even people with a different lifestyle, move into our localities.
We are most comfortable with people who are as similar to us as possible. That's the way it is...!!
I kind of agree with your mailing Sriram what you say is OK up to a point Both of my adopted sons are mixed race West Indian and white English, so as you can see race is not any kind of an issue with me I don't like answering questions about ethnicity on official forms etc however for this post and setting the scene both my wife and I are referred to as white people, we both see ourselves as people struggling with life just like the rest of us.
The only trouble I have that goes along with the extraordinarily rapid influx is the sheer numbers of immigrants we now have here, there's no need to quote figures it's abundantly obvious unless you're like so many people here that don't want to see it.
I cannot understand the people that actually refuse to see why leavers want an Aussie points style system introduced here in the UK and they seem to get so extremely upset if you have the temerity to suggest just something as simple as not allowing potential immigrants here to live that have a criminal records.
If anything like suggesting some sort of control on immigration is suggested whoever suggests it is looked upon as on a par with a serial killers by a certain part of our UK population, I really don't know what they are getting at, they puzzle me.
Regards, ippy
