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

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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.

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LOL sally

I find a lot of the 'foreign' food is cheaper to buy in the 'world foods aisle' than it is in the rest of Tescos.

I understand where OP is coming from (everybody wants to belong, nobody wants to feel like a stranger in their own community), but isn't this mixing up the direct result of 'EU'?

Pretty much no borders, aiming for same laws & same currency, and especially employment laws meant to get people up and around Europe. Eventually, EU will be a more or less homogeneous United States of Europe or some such.

You know I was going to actually say canned chick peas!

YABU. I like going to the oriential centre in Colindale because it is so full of foreigners and I can pretend that I am somewhere far more exotic than n london.

Im disappointed that after my many years of study and hard work, I still couldnt earn enough in the UK to support my children above the poverty line.
Leading to me leaving the UK, and the govt bringing a load of bright young Poles/Indians/Russians to do the jobs like mine.

I don't think the respondents are being obtuse here. Saying it's disappointing to be surrounded by 'foreign' people clearly implies a preference for being surrounded by 'English' people. It's obtuse to assume that that would be interpreted as anything other than xenophobic.

I am not normally accused of extreme political correctness and I understand mamazon regrets the use of "disapointed" but I am disapointed in the number of people who approach me (family and friends) with intolerant views, eg the petition against the mega mosque, indian call centres, I am maybe positively predjudiced but the majority of immigrants I have met have been polite, hard working well educated, interesting and not intimidating at all.

"but it hit home that yes there are many many economic migrants coming to Britain every day to do the jobs the people who have decided that benefits are far less hassle than a decent days wage, can be bothered to do"
cheer mamazon will tell dh he is lazy cos he can't get a f*ingjob in his trade. as he is being undercut.

And i agree clueless - i expanded on my thoughts earlier in teh thread.

it wasn't about feeling intimidated (although it does annoy me when there is a clearly juicy gossiping session being held in a language i cannot understand and tehrefore cannot evesdrop on )

it was just a suprise and realisation at just how many migrants i now have in my community which lead me to think more about immigration as a whole and the possible implications this has on society as a whole.

it was more a reflection of what British Society has become which causes us as an economy to rely on foreign workers.

not a race thing at all...well i suppose it was, but just not in teh way it has been suggested

Oh i agree with that clueless.

I didnt say that "foreigners" were intimidating though. I say that because your post implies that this is what you interpret my post to have meant, when I simply mean that it is intimidating being surrounded by people talking in a language you dont understand.

Mind you, my cousins and my aunt and uncle used to do this in front of us when we were younger for the sole purpose of ensuring we couldnt understand that particular part of the conversation. So I suppose I'm quite sensitive to it.

I ought to have changed my name back before posting

you can share my disappointment, mamazon, because I think we are disappointed about the same thing (see under)?

was responding to vvv, in particular I find the recent press coverage on immigration is creating a cynical society that is reverting to the views of the 60's, people stealing jobs, I have had countless conversations with people who slag off foreigners but have lived and worked overseas themselves.

i'm foreign. and when i'm out with my folks, i don't usually speak English.

yeah you threw me there for a minute vvv, could go on all night but I am hoping dh will make it home tommorow and need my beauty sleep

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