(i know i probably am) To be disapointed that whilst at my local shopping parade all around me were foreign.

[MAMAZON]

I don't want to start a UCM type thread but it just struck me how prety much everyone i saw at the shops earlier was foreign.

no one seemed to be speaking English at all.

which is why i have said 3 times now that disapointed was a poor choice Duchess.

Ask in the shop how to cook it.

Don't be bullied Mamazon.

sorry didn't scroll properly - it was cluelessnacho's my last post was intended for

i think surprised is a better choice of word

Ahh, but moondog I know loads of welsh people who have moved to England, taken our jobs and our women

ok I think it is important to express ourselves carefully when talking about things like this

Ah yes,but English culcha is not fragile.
Welsh men are......special.

not the ones I know!

did think it was for me

I think moony makes an interesting point, but surely the white, english speaking majority is hardly at threat, culturally, from a few foreigners. Welsh language - yes, has been fragile. But noone's going round telling us not to speak English.

Being married to a foreigner, I wasnt offended by the word disappointed. Yes it was a wrong word to use but Mamazon has agreed that too.

Oh huge X posts. Grrr...
Will catch up shortly...

exactly, peaches

StayhomeMum - keep at it with the Turkish - the men do get all with us but that's because they are being blardy lazy!! lol!

I've nowt against foreigners. Spent most of my life abroad,my sisters have married them blah blah blah.

No,Anglophone culture is not fragile but we must remember that Britain is small and very very crowded and actually our collective guilt over past wrongs is not doing us any favours any more.

There isn't much room for anyone else,whatever their size shape or colour.

Having said that,am full of admiration for hard working Eastern Europeans.The worrying question is why aren't the British doing this work??

Thankfully I didnt need to rely on him too much and he is rather shocked that I learnt the majority of Turkish out of a book
He often says himself that its such a shame he cant have 'lads talk' anymore without me understanding

Lol!!! Mind you, I need to lipread so I guess even if I do master the Arabic language, DH is still safe!! ha ha!

but moondog more people (and skills)leaving the uk ever year than entering. I have no guilt for past wrongs, and like you have admiration for people who move anywhere to work hard, and make the best lives for their families

Agree about the polish/hungarian thing

I have just eaten an entire tin of fruit cocktail (pregnancy craving) and under the english version it has the product translated in polish, czech, hungarian and slovakian.

Is that strange - they never used to translate into French or Arabic or anything like that -

Please don't jump or shout I am genuinely curious

MAMAZON are you in the new town in west sussex?

Someone told my sister the other day that they couldnt get any work as couldnt compete with the poles as they were such hard workers.

I know in Turkey at least, that men are used to 12 hour days with minimal breaks. Coming over here and doing similar work but for less hours and more money in comparison to back home seems a walk in the park.

DH had his own business back in Turkey- a 24 hour restaurant. The staff did 12 hour shifts in baking heat, and got paid a pittance. No wonder work over here seems more appealing.

I live in London and love the melting pot. Occasionally I might sit on a bus and realise as caucasian I am in the minority.

What bothers me when I am out shopping is how many morbidly obese people there are. People who you would double-take at 20 years ago (ashamed) are everywhere now. Off the subject actually, will I click on post message or won't I? Think I will and no doubt kill thread. Perhaps that's a good thing.

I've lived in Easter Europe and boy were my eyes opened at how well educated and hard working a huge proportion of thier young people are.
Everyone seems to want to go somewhere else don't they?

My theory is that we open the doors to every poor sod who wants to come in from sub Saharan Africa and we then go there and try to sort out the basket cases all over again.

A 21st century colonialism.

Whatever my views i could never blame anyone for wanting a better life for themselves and their family which is surely what all these people are thinknig.