Yes, I know, I know, this would ordinarily be one of the sure-fire signs that the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse are on the horizon, but in a recent speech Britain's PM David Cameron suggested that 'multi-culturalism" has failed, and that there needs to be a greater focus on a British national identity, and I wholeheartedly agree with him.
I'll let that sink in for a minute before I continue. No, I haven't lost my mind, and no, my blog hasn't been hijacked, this is just one of those rare occurrences where my opinion on immigration aligns itself with someone who, for once, seems to be talking common sense.
I know a little about this subject personally because I am an immigrant myself. My situation is somewhat different than the one David Cameron refers to because I emmigrated to the US from the UK, a country that is very similar in many respects to my homeland although the two are separated by a common language, but I am still an immigrant in a foreign country and the same rules apply. I am a guest here.
In America the main bugaboo about immigrants is that they swarm over the border, steal all the jobs, (as though red-neck honkies from coast-to-coast are knocking down the doors to be bus-boys, dishwashers and fruit-pickers only to be cruelly denied by those dastardly immigrants) and as soon as 'they' get here they sign up for free benefits anyway. Other than the fact that all three of those reasons are massive exaggerations, the over-riding concern from Joe Six-Pack is about how much that all costs and not that the 'guests' have become radical hate-mongers inciting violence against their hosts.
This isn't the case in Britain though. For far too long in the UK they have been cowed by the immigrants' threats and demands to have things their own way and in many instances, regardless of how far the hosts have actually gone to try and accomodate their agitated and vocal guests, in return there has been nothing but hostility, rage and rancor. All of this has seemed (at least to me anyway) to have been completely ass-backwards. Look, I am all for compromise and a sharing of cultural values, but common sense tells you that you don't move into someone else's house and then demand that they re-decorate the place, change the dinner menu, and give you the remote for the telly...When you emigrate to another country you are their guest and you should learn their manners and customs. If they choose to learn and share yours, fine, but you don't get to dictate that they must abide by the rules and customs you have imported from your homeland. If it was that fucking great there, why not go back? So dear guests, if you're going to stay, please stay off the grass, don't drop your fag-ash on the carpet and keep your feet off the furniture if you don't mind. You might not like them, but we do have a few rules to live by.
Now I really do need a lie down before I agree with anything else that little twerp says...
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