Bloody hell, have the waters become so muddied in Britain that you guys now actually believe that wanting to preserve the culture of a nation is racist?
I can't speak for Britain, but I can speak quite specifically about what is happening in my homeland -- Australia. And I keep myself up to speed to know well enough that Australia isn't isolated to this experience, as a western country.
Before I start talking about some of the specifics that are happening in my country, why don't you folks take a long hard look at these charts:
http://www.pnc.com.au/~rjjcrane/
Take a good look . You will see that Lebanese and Vietnamese, along with our mates from the Pacific Islands, are far more crime prone than, say, Italians, Americans, or Greeks.
So why the hell should Australia be importing Lebanese and Vietnamese, if they're far more disposed than the rest of the population towards crime and violence? Give me one good reason?
These aren't figures from some right wing nationalist party, ladies and gentlemen -- they come from the Australian Institute of Criminology.
Take in to account the fact that 24% of people currently languishing in Australia's jails are -- wait for it -- born overseas. Why should my country be importing people who are disproportionately committing crimes?
Then go and have a look at my countries welfare queues...again, we see the usual suspects.
Take a look at the folks who are being arrested in Australia's major cities for plotting to
bomb ****...who could these folks be? Well I'll give you a clue ... they ain't Seventh Day Adventists.
Why don't children now pause in my old high school on the 11/11 anymore to remember our fallen? Well, ladies and gentlemen, remembering Aussie soldiers who fell at war might
offend someone...so we don't do that anymore either.
We've got Islamist bookshops running library lending services which suggest it is a Muslim's religious duty to smite Christians, Jews, and infidels. We have polygamy. We have Usman Badar, the president of the University of New South Wales Muslim Association, just two weeks ago saying that democracy has no place in Australia, that Australia should be under the Sharia, & that it is impossible for Muslims to respect secular society, because that is putting Allah beneath the position of men.
We have the Grand Mufti of Australia saying that 911 was "God's work". We have the President of Australia's Islamic Friendship Society (one Mr Keyser Trad, who has 6 kids and a welfare benefit that would make your average clapper green with envy) labelling white Australians "the criminal dregs of white (British) society).
We have ethnic ghettos in Sydney where white people quite literally won't go. Where Ambulance Officers get beaten up. Where no teacher will teach. These places are simply too dangerous, and too violent.
On and on and on it goes. This has absolutely nothing to do with racism. I frankly couldn't give a toss if someone is black as the ace of spades, white as an albino, or any shade in between.
What I care about, is the fact that my country is being overrun by people who have entirely different values to mine, who choke our welfare queues, who run our illegal drug industry, who are crime prone, and who have absolutely no respect for the traditions or customs of their host nation. No respect.
I believe in Australian (Western) values, traditions, and culture. I want those things respected and preserved.
That ain't racism. It's survival.
Nicole