foha80

I believe it is a common misconception that integration should be the desired aim of minority ethnic groups.I know that I would much prefer living in a multicultural society than a integrated one.

Steve Crook

You really don't understand the word "multicultural" do you?
It's different to "homegenous".

Steve

Freddy

I would like to carry this on but ironically I am off to
Liverpool 'The City of Culture 2008' tomorrow for a few days so will have to pause on this topic.

regards

Freddy

JamesM

Because it's for UK license payers.

I bet there are lots of people who cannot stand listening to European classical music but who listen to Asian Network but do not object to some of their license fee going towards Radio 3.

I bet the cost of running the station a year hardly dents the salaries of some of the cast of Eastenders.

pustice

Ahh remember those wonderful days of the late 50s and early 60s when the polititians claimed...'There are only a few immigrants being allowed into England each year. There is no need for this imagined hysteria about the country being swamped with other cultures.'
I have a question:
Why do all these people flee their native land because of the repressive regimes, and way of life, and then the minute they get to England, try to change it into the place they left?
Just a thought

foha80

Yes and what an original thought it is too.Its a wonder we don't all pack up and go and live in Canada.

samkydd

I wrote an anti National Front poem when I was at school and the last lines read:

"This country's been multi-racial for many a generation,
Since a Norman screwed a Saxon and began the British nation!"

Needless to say I was hauled over the coals for using the word "screwed" and it ended up being torn up by the teacher (might as well have used the other word), so you can guess what his politics were! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] Needless to say it was the last time I contributed anything in a lesson!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

ollie

Whats this debate got to do with a treatment for milk

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

Ascoyne D'Ascoyne

To be fair the NatWest site is notwhat he was talking about.
If indeed promotional posters (I presume they depicted images of piggy banks) have been taken down in case they offend certain people we have reached a sorry state of affairs.

JamesM

No, they will not have been taken down because they have offended people. More like the banks trying to get as much custom as possible if it was true. My muslim friends would think that anyone who believes this is the reason why is completely paranoid.

Pustice, since you left the country, my friends have been more than making up for the shortfall from the sum you were paying towards the license fee. If enough people want to listen to Bhangra on the radio they pay for then why not? Maybe the first thing they saw on the televsision was Noel Edmond's House Party and felt convinved that they had something better to offer the nation and began making elements of their own culture available to radio listeners.

Steve Crook

Most of them don't. You only hear about the few that do. Most people aren't reported in the newspapers.

Steve

Steve Crook

The NatWest site proves that they're still running it as a promotion.
I doubt that any posters about it have really been taken down anywhere. It's just the normal urban myth that some people like to spread and other people believe without checking.

Steve

JamesM

That's right. Just like it occurred on here only luckily Steve was here to put it right. The person who first put up this suggestion should tell off the person who told them this, as they have put themselves in a position where the less open minded might assume them to be a hatemongerer.

foha80

Hello Jeff
I think this story first surfaced in the Daily Star with headlines of "Snoutrageous" &"our piggybanks"
Is the story true that

I think any reasonably critical mind would be able to see where the logic fails in that statement.But I fear that for many people, statements like above,bypass all critical judgement and are accepted because it reinforces already held beliefs.This nonsense gains creedence as it is passed on without proper attribution.As the reponse to this thread demonstrates people have concerns and those concerns should be addressed but ludicrous headlines like this on are an insult to everyones intelligence

Terry

Steve Crook

The only thing that needs to be banned in this country is newspapers that peddle rubbish like this - and not just the usual culprits like the Daily Star and the other tabloids. The so called "respectable" newspapers are often just as guilty of it, as are some of the TV news programmes.

All "journalists" should be held accountable for the misinformation they spread.

Steve