Ethnic Minorities - What do you think

[Seatherny]

Before I say anything, please note that no racism is allowed.

Many people dislike having ethnic minorities and many people don't mind them at all. Some think they steal benefits etc while others think they create jobs and help the economy.

What do you think of them and why? Should they be allowed benefits? Do you like them or dislike them? And why?

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Edited by invincible (Forum Super Moderator): To reiterate the OP's point, racism will not be tolerated and any racists posts made will be dealt with appropriately.

[Caution]

They should be allowed in, only if they are needed. If there is a shortage of jobs in a certain area and they have skills in it they should be allowed in. My Mum works for the Council in Revenues and Benefits and she gets ignorant Poles coming in constantly, asking for the money they believe they are entitled to (I think one of them got a payout of about 5k for something, took it back to Poland and it's going towards land to build a house). She says one of them comes over and realises they're entitled to money, so they bring the rest of the family over. The majority can't even speak English, there's usually one that comes to translate. Theres a massive queue for housing, they get priority over people who have lived in this country and contributed to it in tax. I know not all are the same, obviously, and many do help the country and are hardworking but it's just infuriating to see hard working citizens who have lived here all their lives get pushed to the back to support the integration of people that aren't even welcomed.

[kk.]

who owns HSBC? and any many other major business? Ethnic minorities. if it wernt for them, a lot of things wouldnt be around today.

Not only that but only 3% of the worlds population dont live where they are born (not sure where i heard this though lol)

[Black_Apalachi]

I just think the Government shouldn't let anyone get away with living off benefits so easily and not even trying to go out and get jobs. Anyone who enters the country should be treated the same, not given extra benefits or whatever.

[Seatherny]

I agree with the first two. The fact that some people generalise all Asians / Blacks as lazy and "kick them out because they are stealing our benefits" due to a few people is just urgh! They fail to notice the majority who create jobs and actually help the economy. They only seem to notice the bad things. Like someone said to me earlier, its mainly because their lives are probably so crap, they wanna block it out by blaming others, in this case they blame the Ethnic Minority.

I just realised I spelt the thread as Ethic "/. Bad spelling day. Could a moderator please edit it.

[ifuseekamy]

Being an ethnic minority doesn't make you an immigrant and vice versa.

[Ardemax]

I have no problem with them at the moment.

I don't live by them, they don't live by me S)

But yeah, as long as they don't start doing something crazy, then I guess I'd be alright with them.

-waiting for a BNP supporter to flame ethnic minorities-

[Bun]

i've got nothing against ethnic minorities. i've got nothing against immigrants as long as they contribute to the country, and not just live off benefits. that being said however, i hate how this country trys to conform to suit other peoples beliefs rather than being firm and holding our own.

[Seatherny]

Being an ethnic minority doesn't make you an immigrant and vice versa.

No but some people still dislike ethnic minorities (e.g. previous thread).

[buttons]

On my college bus there are about 8 or 9 polish people in total who get on and they're all 16-19, our college only lets them stay for a year and if they've progressed or behaved well enough they're given work experience, their employer doesn't have to offer them a job at the end but if they do I think it's fine, it shows they're capable enough whereas some 'white' people who go to college just mess about and don't actually try hard whereas these polish do and if they don't they have to pay to stay another year which I think is only fair as they're given better opportunitys than us here. I've actually never heard of any complain about the system and yeah they talk english really well, I've always heard people elsewhere say they're really ungrateful but I haven't heard anything like that at all, the only ones we really have a problem with are the Egyptians who own the pizza shop - they were both born here so aren't immigrants, they're just ********s and it's in their nature, they always curse with "white boy" which is just disrespectful but what can ya do

The Polish I know all live in the worst council flats which USED to be full of drug-addicts, I'd much prefer some foreign people were living there than them anyday, the majority of the people who try to get council flats here are people who
a) left school early & are on jobseekers aka can't be arsed to get a job - some people really can't but the majority here are lazy.
b) pregnant teens...
c) junkies (pretty much the first 2 then)

Anyone on any kind of benefits are likely always going to be thought the worse of, it's not a problem where I live I just dislike the way the polish act sometimes and use their race against them when it's really nothing to do with it and they do the same to us, we don't actually discriminate each other it's just picking at stupid things. I know all the areas up here don't have many ethnicity at all, I literally NEVER come across any black people unless I'm in town, I've seen the woman walk about like they own the place & the men, well... I also went to the uni there and they were near enough all foreign, when I asked a few why they'd come here it was because they wanted to work in this specific area not because they wanted better money and lives, there are shortages of doctors, dentists and whatever else here, I'd rather have a foreign person who knew what they were doing than not one at all (for example, there are roughly 6 dentists, that's really not exagerrated, in my town of 3,800 when I last looked, my one got the sack so I have to go to the next town to get one and even then I still don't get to see them often as they're all so busy)

k so far I have no problem with Polish, that Egyptians I met are ***** but I'm sure not every of them are, the germans & russians I met at Uni were fine enough - the uni shop was also ran by 2 Slovakians who put their own money into it and still do their Uni course. They can take our benefits all they want - our 'own people' take money from government whereas ethnic minorities try to get a job even if it's cheap labour :S I always get confused when people on this forum complain that it'd be different if I worked and had to deal with paying taxes for all these benefits, I've never heard my mum (who used to work minimum wage part time) or brothers or anyone else complain about?! It's very likely a lot different in England or busier places in Scotland but just from what I observe it's all fine here...

I have nothing to say about africans/indians eusa_ange), let's just say the ones I have met fit the sterotypical view & yeah I'm probably being narrow-minded, I've never met one working ever maybe it's because the government are as racist as me (god knows why I am considering I hardly meet any, it's what you get growing up with a Russian father and Grandmother :rolleyes or they really are lazy slobs. If they're the same as Poles and the rest I've met then I'm sure I'd see them working but I don't, I've seen some 'black' woman working mainly offices and there's 2 in one of the opticians in town but I've never seen a black man working unless he's a bouncer which is all they seem to be good for..

also wth at asians being lazy? they have one of the best educations ever, a lot of them only care about education and getting a good job:S .. & saurav I don't think you could say anyone would blame an ethnic minority for anything because their lives are crap, that's stupid reasoning.