I have lived in many countries and allways respected there values. but in england or the uk no one seems to respect ours the other day i heard xmas is being band in 3/4 of british compainies. i feel this country is being rediculas. i went to saudi and they dont respect christians and wont build a christian church. however, we have to build muslim churchs and they are going to build the biggest one in the world soon in east london. yet the muslims wont stop till we have islamic law. surley we should do what the saudis do and stop this until they respect our ways.
2006-12-06 09:38:31 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
i never said they should leave all is said is that i think people should respect our ways like we respect theirs. I respect all religions and i live near tooting and some of my best friends are indian. i have a really good friend who is from goa and he gets the same thing as you were they dont believe he his christian. i am sorry for that. but i believe more should be dont for intergration and i know that we all came from somewhere else and that what is stupid maybe we should ban all religion then there would be less wars. or we should all take up buddism as there has never been a war about buddism. lets all try to live together and get on and not ban xmas or anyother festival. cheers
2006-12-06 10:37:43 · update #1
I agree with you on some points, definitely. But first: please show me a source that states Xmas is being officially banned in 3/4 of British companies. I'm a national Manager of a large greeting card and gift company, we are part of an enormous international chain. None of us or our competitors have banned Christmas in any way, so that's just utter nonsense. Sounds like the usual right wing crap spouted by the likes of the BNP.
Why do I say that? Well,my grandparents are Indian but my parents and I were all born and raised here, so we're British. Despite this, I face the prejudices of ignorant morons every day who assume that I can't POSSIBLY be a Christian, and therefore don't celebrate Christmas, because of the colour of my skin. It has a lot to do with the ridiculous hysteria the media stir up... far too many people are dimwitted enough to believe it.
I agree that people of other faiths should integrate more, which doesn't mean they need to 'give up their faith or get the hell out' (some ignorant imbecile said this earlier). I also agree that SOME companies have taken this way too far: the whole BA uniform thing, for example, was ridiculous.
My view is that there are plenty of idiots/zealots/extremists/genuine and decent people of all religions here. To say that no people who ''come here'' ever accept 'our values' is nothing but a generalisation. Pay less attetion to scaremongerers and fools.
I wish you all a happy Christmas, Yule, Rohatsu, Dong zhi, Modranect, Hanukkah, Yalda, Saturnalia, or whatever festival you mark. I respect all these, which doesn't affect the fact that I celebrate Xmas. The end.
2006-12-06 10:13:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is a fundamental flaw in your question. Has anyone posting their anti-immigrant comments on this site actually heard any non-Christian objecting to Christmas?
We have a large Moslem, Hindu and Sikh community in our City, and they are front-and-centre in celebrating Christmas, except they do not worship as Christians - and neither do I as a White Briton, born and bred here, who chooses to be an Atheist.
The only people who seriously do not celebrate Christmas are Jehovah's Witnesses - a branch of the Christian church.
No serious Muslim organisation, or any numbers of individual Muslims are calling for the introduction of Islamic Law in this country - and to claim otherwise is just a lie.
So please get your facts straight before inciting racism, and try and be a little more tolerant and understanding of other people.
2006-12-06 18:00:48 · answer #2 · answered by Timothy M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, it is ridiculous, but I also think it is the media stirring up hatred by spouting claptrap. We should be free to celebrate Xmas and should be catering to other faiths too, but not at the expense of our Christmas celebrations.
Re: "i say everybody should go back to theyre own damn place "
Go on then - off you go. What an utterly stupid, ignorant comment. If everyone went back to where they came from, the population of Britain would be reduced to... nil. How many pure Anglo-Saxons do you think are left in the UK? Oh, that's right - NONE. Plus, even the Anglo-Saxons weren't 100% British: Saxony is Germany!
Incidentally, in this context you'd use 'THEIR'. Not they're, and definitely not 'theyre'.
2006-12-06 18:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by Wildamberhoney 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have to respect teh values of every culture, we allow places of worship from every religion.
No one has the right, to say "You can't celebrate your religion" in what ever way you are acustomed to doing. Singapore celebrates all religious beliefs, why can't certain "other" groups of people show some respect.
Christmas is the biggest Christian celebration of any Christian country. As the saying goes
"While in Rome, do as the Romans"
it's not
"While in Rome, lets cancel their holidays, change their laws, their beliefs, religions, stop them celebrating and displaying their beliefs publically"
LEAVE CHRISTMAS ALONE, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GO BACK HOME!
2006-12-06 17:51:30 · answer #4 · answered by Monkey Dancer 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
that's dumb why can't we just all respect each other? and whatever happened to the impact of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol? we're reading that in my English class and we're learning about how England really embraced Christmas and charities then.
that makes no sense. we respect the Islam religion why can't they accept Christian religions?
2006-12-06 17:42:42 · answer #5 · answered by Cayleen O 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
minorities seem to have the loudest voice.unfortunately the majority are quite happy to sit back.do nothing.its a shame.in australia the public schools arent allowed to sing christmas carols or teach religion in schools for fear of offending anyone.
2006-12-06 17:54:21 · answer #6 · answered by sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Quite right. If people come here they should learn to live our way and not expect the whole country to change for them. If they don't like it they can f**k off back where they came from.
2006-12-06 17:42:34 · answer #7 · answered by hardcoredjbenzy 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
get the cavemen out of britain. they have nothing to offer us.their religion holds them back as it is based on caveman values. the best one i heard yet was in todays paper that channel 4's christmas message will be told by a muslim woman in full veil. how sick and sad is this? i say we all boycott these channels and companies until they sort their pc heads out.
2006-12-06 17:56:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I say they should accept our ways of living and follow our rules and they shouldn't think that their way is always right.
2006-12-06 17:48:18 · answer #9 · answered by allycat 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
YOU ARE SO RIGHT. IN THEIR COUNTRY WE ARE EXPECTED TO RESPECT THEIR BELIEFS AND LAWS, THEY COME TO OUR COUNTRY AND EXPECT US TO PUT THEIR BELIEFS BEFORE OUR LAWS. IT IS PURE RELIGIOUS HYPOCRICY.
I'M SLIGHTLY DYSLEXIC AND FIND READING EASIER WITH ALL CAPITALS. HOPE IT HELPS YOU.
2006-12-06 18:06:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋