nimh wrote:Steve (as 41oo) wrote:What disappoints me is there is absolutely no anti Scots or anti Indian prejudice that I can discern in England.
Absolutely no anti Indian prejudice? You mean that there's no people calling anyone brown-skinned "Paki" anymore? Or more like, if they
knew someone were Indian and not Pakistani, they wouldnt act with prejudice?
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Steve mentions Indians specifically nimh, and I tend to agree with him, at least in my neck of the woods. Indians are regarded as gentle, hard working people on the whole, who want the best for their kids and do their utmost to see that they are brought up to be polite and well educated.
I've just had Indian neighbours move in two doors down from me, and there have already been eight or nine of us in the road that have knocked on their door and introduced themselves, and ...well, basically welcoming them to the neighbourhood.
Indians, IMO, behave more like the English than some of us English! I was genuinely pleased to see that it was an Indian family that had moved in.
I can't speak for the rest of the country though, but my general feeling would be that unless they moved in to a really deprived inner city area, they would be welcome.
As far as the Scots are concerned, however, I am as perplexed as Steve.
Why?
It is as if they have a massive chip on their shoulders, and it has been double deep fried, like their food.
