Racism in uk

[Charltonstrek]

Im finding the level of racism here in the UK to be very unsettling and it seems to be getting worse and im finding it depressing as I have a Muslim partner and I wonder if there is a future here for him. Ive mostly witnessed this on social media with some very derogatory comments anybody else or am I too sensitive

Indeed. Let’s get the lazy Brits off their arses first please.

My stepfather and half siblings are Indian, they get rascist treatment all the time in the south east. It was "muslim scum" last week and he's not even muslim he's hindu.
He's been a british citizen since 1960, has worked full time and paid all of his taxes. We get pretty sick of it as family. My mum gets the "black man's whore" treatment, she's nearly 90 ff's.
It's really overt rascism these days.

Thank you. I agree with this.

I’ve experienced a lot of racism. 70s/80s was horrific. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to report. Not now tbh either.

Day to day I don’t tend to experience it much. Sometimes micro aggressions. The flags I guess. But not directly.

im not on social media though.

This also needs to be implemented for Brits living abroad.

Is it racism or just absolute frustration at the lack of integration from some communities?

100%! How can you hope to integrate if you cannot talk the language? People shouldn’t be allowed to move anywhere and just live in their own little ghetto. It does community cohesion no good whatsoever.

English classes were defunded. There are long waiting lists in many places. The will is there to
learn.

I've a Spanish friend and she tells me her parents' area has been completely overrun by Brits who refuse to integrate or learn the language. It's despicable.

An immigrant shouldn't rely on the state to provide lessons though. Whether that's British people abroad or immigrants in the UK.

Denmark have introduced a policy of bulldozing areas of housing that have a high concentration of non-western immigrants to force such immigrants to properly integrate. It’s an interesting policy.

There's no human rights issue with banning a niqab.

There is absolutely a security risk when people are allowed to go around concealing their identity.

English is a complicated language. I’ve seen the difference classes make. Of course immersion helps too.

But it’s human nature to communicate in the language that you know best. See expats in Spain.

It was much worse when I was at school (1960s and 70s). It was normal back then to hear derogatory terms even for eg. French and Italians, never mind that everyone with brown skin tone was referred to as a p**i. That was in London, where I grew up. I think that today, most people are more tolerant of others and less likely to be offensive, apart from a small but vocal minority.

If it's about security, you'd also need to ban motorbike helmets, face masks for ill people, scarves pulled up over the mouth, big sunglasses, etc.
It's not really about security, is it?

Frustration ... but its called racism to keep people quiet.

Neither is Jewish! I actually think we people stop confusing chosen religion with actual race conversations might actually make more sense!

Those items DO have to be removed for security purposes.
But nice try.

28th march is the together march in London

This is tricky, because I do think it is important to allow groups of people their own subculture (and indeed, attempting to systematically destroy a subculture is a human rights abuse). This is particularly true for groups who have been in British for a very long time (e.g. gypsy and traveller communities).

But the 'culture within a culture' can only work when the subcultures are very small and most of the rest of the society is culturally reasonably unified. This is what we had up until the 1990s. If you have large, non-integrated subcultures or just a whole society with disparate groups and no unified sense of identity, you get a complete loss of cohesion and trust. This is what has happened in the last twenty years because the scale of immigration has just been too large and too quick.

I'm not Jewish or Muslim, so can't say about those, but as an immigrant, haven't experienced anything really racist for decades! Not like in the 90's. The only mildly racist stuff I've had recently are from people on the streets - and those have always been foreigners, NOT Brits. I've had Brits defending me, in fact.

Surely, it's more to do with people of certain groups not assimilating, or causing trouble? In which case, it's not racism, innit.

Um, it is.

And where are the Jews from? Palestine?

I'm not denying that classes help, of course they do. But immigrants shouldn't rely on the state to pay for them.

And yes, it's natural to communicate in the language you know best. But it's not good for the host country to have large insular groups that don't learn the language.

We were the only brown family in our area. The racism was rife! And we were totally outnumbered.
people felt comfortable telling us we stank plus the more obvious racist slurs. My parents spoke often about moving to places like Leicester and Loughborough where we wouldn’t stand out.

It’s understandable why people congregate together. What I do think would be useful is opportunities to mix, to connect. So that could be schools, churches, temples, community centres, libraries and sure start/ children’s centres would be a great start.

People who are black African can follow islam, Pepe who are from the far east, Arab countries and south Asia. White Anglo Saxons too may choose Islam as a religion.