This is when I change in my usual policy of not wanting to upset those of different religion and culture, trying hard to keep any racism that I inherited from past generations at bay.............................BUT..............................
at the risk of being racist, and for once I don't care if I am, why is it that families from Pakistan and India come to live in the UK because they want to, and apparently like life here, then insist certain young members of their family forget British culture and laws to undergo forced marriage within their past culture?
They have accepted they live in BRITAIN; their offspring are BRITISH, they live in OUR culture with OUR laws, so why the hell do they think it is right to force their BRITISH, born here, children who have adopted OUR culture and consider themselves BRITISH to suddenly revert to a culture they abandoned when moving here? If they, the parents, really do still honour their old culture and contry then why don't they f'ck off back there?!!
It makes me so angry, and only rekindles the natural racism that lays dormant in many (most?) Brits. We, well I, want a multicultural society where we all live peacefully together in Britain, with our laws, but whenever this type of 'problem' becomes apparent, I hear the ghosts of past generations saying what I heard constantly in the 1950's/60's, but not repeatable here!
"undergo forced marriage within their past culture":
1. Marrying cousins is traditional in Pakistan and the intermarriage causes many genetic problems, which in the UK the NHS has to deal with.
2. The cousin can then get a visa and right to live in the UK and earn much more money even on the minimum wage compared to Pakistani wages. The catering trade where 'Indian' restaurants are run and staffed by Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi staff are a popular area for employment. The cousin once established in the UK, can then get his parents / family to apply to reside in the UK. Our local 'Indian' restaurant have been in the local papers twice in the last few years where they have been raided by UK immigration, charged, convicted and fined and the offending staff have been deported.
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/sandhurst-indian-restaurant-raided-home-8900730Humans, other mammals and most animals are all afraid of the unknown as a defense and survival mechanism and that is where our natural racism comes from. It is largely against all the unknown. The natural human hierarchies are families, friends and neighbours, villages, towns, cities, counties and countries, where people of diverse but also common binding values have lived together. Local community self-defence was very important until the recent past to protect ourselves from the marauding hordes which in the UK particularly involved the vikings.
Fast massive changes in societies have traditionally been due to invasion, UK changed massively post-1066, with much slower changes through migration. IMO The problems occur when the migration happens at too fast rate as local communities get overwhelmed so people don't assimilate and the bigger the cultural differences the more difficult the integration. In the UK we have been suffering from this particularly badly since 1997, where migration was much more controlled before this. It has been easy to move to the UK with BLiar and Mandelscum openly admitting they scoured the world for people to invite to the UK to profoundly change our society and provide Liebour with their next generation of clientele and voters.
Personally, I think this country, to its credit has done much better than most in the world in the integration of different people from a wide range of cultures. Countries like the US, France and other European countries have much bigger issues.