Does anyone remember England before mass immigration?

Question

Ican remember the first two coloured kids arriving at our school.They were brothers and they were both brilliant at cricket.That was in 1961.There was no racism then.

Answer 1

I remember those days well. I used to cycle to work and then get a lift home on a tractor.

Answer 2

When I was at school in the 1970s , there were 3 asian kids in the whole school, one of whom was a close friend. There was no racism, he was just another kid. True we called him "hey blackie" or whatever at times, and he respoded with "what honky"? No insult intended and none taken by either party, it was just a name, my nickname was far worse, his nickname was Spider and was what he was usually called by. Soyab was his given name.

Times have passed, the school has now about 3 white kids and the rest are asians, the politically correct brigade have convinced these asians they have had a bad lot, and are correct to carry a huge chip on their shoulder, they make the white kids life a misery, and if the school tries to intervene, they cry "Racist", leaving the school able to do nothing but turn a blind eye.
If a white lad beat an asian in a fair fight, then he has to face 20 of the asians mates and elder brothers who will hunt him down in their cars.
Funny how the PC Brigade never seem to live in these areas, I preach tolerence to all, yet I do not see tolerence around me.

Answer 3

I can remember starting secondary school in 1968 and two Asian guys starting at the school on the same day, one in my year and one in the year above, everyone treat them like gods as they were so good at sport and maths, they were both kind and helped anyone with homework, no racism was ever heard off anyone in the school towards these guys, one of the guys is now a barber in our area and lots of us from our time together at school pop in and chat with him and his family and still between us their is no racism of any kind, maybe we were a lot more tolerant and respectful of each other growing up, I know even to this day I hate racist of any kind, there is good and bad in every creed, some of the people out there just have to realise that thought don't they.

Answer 4

I can't remember back before the romans, the vikings or the saxons invaded. That was mass immigration though. And who knows who the first were to move here with the indigenious natives.

Now, when I walk around some areas, its like being in another country because of immigrant saturation. I'd just like to know if the home office have made any more progress capturing those immigrants previously jailed for rape, paedophillia, murder and violence, ear marked for deportation, who they let go back into main stream society.

Its not racist for the general public to want to feel safe in our own communities. They should do proper checks on who they let in. And cap the numbers, as John Reid himself admitted. Lets hope he's sorting out the mess Labour liberal open door policy has made within the home office - and stop appointing immigrants themselves for senior positions (Zimbabwe of all places! Did they expect any more, when that corrupt guy abused his position?).

Answer 5

I was born in 1963, and there was little racism from what I saw. You have to remember that the UK population has risen in total, and so the proportion of immigrants with darker skin appears to have risen. Nobody notices immigrants from Europe, and their children become indistringuishable from the indigenous population within a generation.

Britiain is, and always has been, a nation of immigrants, from the Anglo-Saxons, Romans to the Normans, Danes and numerous later groups.

Answer 6

No racism? The land who slaughtered many Native Americans, annihilated the Australian Aborigines and many Hindu cultures, established a wicked rule in Africa from Cairo to Cape City where the Africans were enslaved, all in the name of God and the King/Queen, was never a racist one?

Answer 7

I went to an English Boarding School from 1939 to 1945. I was one of thee refugees from Austria (Vienna) and all the other 147 boys were Brits. The Brits never liked any kind of Foreigners at that time, but they tolerated us three refugees because we had fled from Hitler and England was at War with Hitler. The school was in the Cotswold's and Life was Beautiful - England was Beautiful and we all stood together. It will never come round again.

Answer 8

im 28years old so no i dont, when i was a kid there were mainly pakistanis living near us or at our school and most of them were ok, there was racism but it was a minority.
i found them easy to get along with but our town was always mainly a white community.
nowadays when i visit the area there are polish, kosavans, which at first i treated with the same respect as the pakistanis but i soon found out that these refugees are something else. i dont like them as ppl i find them rude arrogant and they have a total lack of respect for british ppl esp the women. i have been out on a number of occasions and find that polish men seem to think us british women are their play things and cant take no for an answer these ppl i dont like.

Answer 9

Do not think anyone is that old .People have been coming to England for hundreds of years mainly from Europe.Time racism was put in the bin.Its not a persons colour that counts its how you treat them and how they treat you .The vast majority of immigrants are ok.just like the majority of English but like everywere there are bad apples.But what do you call English there are many coloured people who are english their. grandparents came here for work We have had an influx from Asia in recent years the NHS would grind to a halt without them.So shake them by the hand and get to know them,

Answer 10

I saw the first coloured face when I was about four, never seen anything like it before then, it was back in Germany and this Somalian girl had been adopted by our neighbours. For at least another three or four years I was waiting for her to start turning white now that she's been living away from Africa :-)))))

Answer 11

Lol, yeah, way back in 1959 I was the only mixed parentage English-Pakistani little girl in school. The only Moslem, the one who sat out of morning assembly and R.E. lessons. It was good because I got to go to extra art lessons and reading in the library instead. Consequently, I came top in class most of the time!

The other girls were great friends and made no judgement, whilst many of the boys were rude, racist and ignorant, until, of course, I reached teenage and then chased me like mad because I was such a looker.

... and so my world-view was formed... males are the seat of racist poison, religion is best studied rather than practiced.