Ask an Immigrant thread

b0rker

nm1213 wrote: »

Let's clear the air, provide solid information that is factual

Do you agree with Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle when he suggests that the Daily Mail will be reporting that immigrants carry a type of bird flu that causes house values to drop?

I think that with the recent upward trend of immigrants and the subsequent drop in house prices that it would be difficult for you to refute this claim.

Come to think of it there was a lot of sneezing ducks at the local pond yesterday.

Bloody immigrants!

john.xs

do you think the uk as an island can sustain a seemingly ever increasing population or do you think restrictions may have to be considered at some point?
do you think most people have benefited from black rule in south africa?
do you think there is a place for sharia law in the uk?
do you think the nhs/social literature should be printed in umpteen languages or just the indiginous language?

Wookster

bendix wrote: »

I'm one of the sort Dervish hates.

Pity I can't thank you twice for that

nm1213

1. Do you agree with Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle when he suggests that the Daily Mail will be reporting that immigrants carry a type of bird flu that causes house values to drop?

A - LOL.

2. Do you think the uk as an island can sustain a seemingly ever increasing population or do you think restrictions may have to be considered at some point?

A - There should definitely be restrictions on the numbers let in.

3. do you think most people have benefited from black rule in south africa?

A - Don't know enough about this to form an educated opinion.


4. do you think there is a place for sharia law in the uk?

A - Yes, in a text book maybe. The U.K. has laws that are very fair and and compassionate towards all kinds of people and ideas. As such, I find the laws very fair for the most part and based on this, have chosen to settle here. If I was not in agreement with the laws, politics, or anything else for that matter, I would choose not to live here. Why would anybody subject themselves to something they don't agree with... willingly? It makes no sense.

5. do you think the nhs/social literature should be printed in umpteen languages or just the indiginous language?

A - Canada is bilingual... and nothing wrong with that. I love being able to converse/interact in different languages. Official material should be printed in the official languages of the country. I do see some merit in printing information in other languages. It does not seem right but we really should be tolerant towards this. How would you feel if you were a refugee from somewhere in Asia or Africa and everything was printed in English only?

ruggedtoast

john.xs wrote: »

do you think the uk as an island can sustain a seemingly ever increasing population or do you think restrictions may have to be considered at some point?
do you think most people have benefited from black rule in south africa?
do you think there is a place for sharia law in the uk?
do you think the nhs/social literature should be printed in umpteen languages or just the indiginous language?

Do you think the UK can sustain an ever growing elderly population, with an ever shrinking number of working age people?

Do you think white rule in South Africa, and the rest of Africa for that matter, may possibly have contributed to the mess that inhabited the resultant power vacuum when they withdrew?

Do you think the NHS should be realistic about the language abilities of people in ethnic communities and communicate in ways they can understand. or try and make a point by just having English and then have them all clogging up NHS Direct 24/7, or making GP appointments because they dont know where to buy aspirin?

The only one of your very leading questions I dont take issue with is the Sharia law one. There shouldnt be a place for that in the world let alone the UK.

ninky_2

I'm the product of immigration as my mum came here from India when she was 15.

I also married an immigrant. An "illegal" at that, who literally fell off the back of a lorry....

Immigrants obviously just come to the UK to steal our men and women.

(They make VERY nice husbands though).

penguine

brummybloke wrote: »

i remember the outrage about an american woman who came obver to the UK about 15 years ago while7 months pregnant or close to the flying restriction limits for being pregnant.

she came here soley to have a child born for free.

she said it would have cost her $$$$ in america and found it far cheaper to have 2 months living in a hotel in england and then fly home after with her child, all paid for by uk.

I've heard this kind of anecdote before. Most recently it was someone complaining that Polish women are flocking over to the UK 8 months pregnant just so that they can have a baby on the NHS. Perhaps this happens occasionally -- but so rarely that it's a non-issue. Most women prefer to have their babies close to home with their family nearby, not in a foreign country surrounded by strangers.

And most Americans I know are so convinced that socialised medicine can't be any good that they wouldn't have an ingrown toenail treated on the NHS.

mouche

penguine wrote: »

Most women prefer to have their babies close to home with their family nearby, not in a foreign country surrounded by strangers.

Exactly! I'm an immigrant (legal, working full time, paying taxes, no dependence on public funds) and when I have a child, I fully intend to go back to my own country to give birth. Healthcare is not free there and there is none of this pre and post birth help from midwives etc. But I will still go so that I can be close to my mother and go to the doctor who took care of me since age 10. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I know many women from my country do the same.

So there are two sides to every coin.

mbga9pgf

Have to ask, why would you bother coming to the UK?

I have met a few kiwis before that have come over here.

They must be nuts!

MrFonzerelli

Wookster wrote: »

Its all very sad how things have turned out though I think it would be almost impossible for the UK (or any Western country) to intervene more directly as Mugabe would simply accuse them of recolonisation.

He has played a murderous but canny game.

I completely agree with what you've said.
Why doesn't South Africa or the African Union intervene?