Ask a Brummie

[Regina]

People say "oh she's a slut" like being a slut is such a bad thing

I advocate always releasing that inner slag, as long as everything is consensual and safe.

[dahrling]

People say "oh she's a slut" like being a slut is such a bad thing

I advocate always releasing that inner slag, as long as everything is consensual and safe.

But I think hell might be a fun place to go to, after all god is a joykill. 

[Napoléon]

I think they alienate themselves personally

There's also a sizeable black (of Caribbran origin so Christian) population in Birmingham, and although they tend to be poorer on average, they've had less problem integrating in. Any Muslims I know who are secular and make an effort get places as well. One of my best friends growing up was Muslim, from an Iranian family who left Iran after the Shah was overthrown, they're very secular and have never struggled for anything.

I've done a few threads on this very topic.

There's virtually no integration by Muslim communities in England IMO. Last time I went through Alum Rock and Bordesley Green, I literally felt like a foreigner, which isn't an exaggeration by any means. There's giant mosques everywhere, everyone drives like a complete cunt*, people treat the place like it's Pakistan or whatever other Muslim shithole it is they came from and they're run down, miserable and generally quite scary places to be. 

It's sad. And yet people who haven't directly experienced it don't see any problem. They go on like multiculturalism is this great thing without any flaws and if you point out how it's failed then you're some kind of intolerant, racist dick.

Here's the thing though, I didn't feel like a foreigner because everyone else was brown (and they are in those places). I felt like a foreigner because everyone else was clearly from a Muslim culture that is so alien and at odds with culture everywhere else in the country. Like you say, black dudes from Jamaica have had no issues integrating. You can go down the pub with people like that. You can't really go down the pub with the average Muslim in this country.

Doesn't mean there aren't those few who buck the trend ofcourse, my bro went out with a girl from Iran and she was what I'd consider 'integrated'. She certainly didn't mind going the pub. On the whole though, Muslim communities are a big fucking problem in this country, but mainstream politics, the media etc. won't ever come to that conclusion because it's not Politically Correct. Instead they talk about things like the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham schools, or plots of terrorism in Islamic book stores in Alum Rock as though they are isolated incidents of 'extremism'.

* Did you know Bordesley Green has the highest rate of uninsured drivers in the country? Including many other parts of Birmingham?* even Bradford, which has a high Asian/Muslim population has a high rate of uninsured drivers. Maybe it's just coincidence though...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...emium.html

^ Yeah it's the daily fail, stats are still accurate though.

Well yeah, there are some areas I wouldn't feel comfortable with. My Nan lives by Alum Rock and she's the only non-Muslim there I know of.

You have the opposite as well though. Muslims are like mythical creatures in the area I live in, they're so rare here.

Historically Britain is a white Christian nation (which is significantly different for example to when some Americans get a little pissy about immigrants, those guys are a nation of immigrants, Britain simply isn't). They probably should be rare "mythical creatures". You don't see many (read: any) white Christian communities taking over Pakistan. Instead what you have here are huge communities of Muslims, with hundreds of Mosques, Islamic schools with Islamic style segregation, Islamic food etc. all completely at odds with the culture of this country and how it has been for hundreds of years.

I live in an area where there's virtually no Muslims. However where I used to live, Chelmsley Wood, is mostly white British with a few from the Afro-Caribbean community. The Afro-Caribbean's never had any issue integrating. They speak the same language, they wear the same clothes and they still go down the pub like any good British fella would. They're certainly not at odds with British culture (some Somalians seem to be different though, but guess what, Somalians are mainly Muslims). However with the immigration travesty that has happened to this country I've started to see many more Muslims in this community recently that have never otherwise been there.

And what a surprise, they don't look like they're integrating. No, they're walking around in their black ninja attire, speaking a foreign language and you can spot them a mile away. If I'm being brutally honest it makes me feel physically sick. Not because of what they are wearing, or what they are speaking, in and of itself. But because of what that represents. A culture entirely at odds with my own, a culture that is fundamentally backwards and barbaric IMHO, and that belongs back in the middle-east where it spawned. I know a lot of people go on about 'losing their national identity', and 'fearing for their culture'. Many of these people are racist numpties who support parties like the BNP or the EDL etc. but I can kind of understand some of the sentiment behind it. Do I think my culture is at risk of being wiped out by Islamic culture any time soon? No, but people are getting tired of it. Ordinary people. I honestly believe that's why UKIP has done so well for themselves. People want something done about immigration and UKIP are seemingly the only party who want to talk about it. In the minds of many ordinary Brits, immigration is a major issue, in large part due to the muslim communities that simply don't integrate like what I've been talking about.

But uh, that's enough waffle from me today.

[Longhorn]

Is this you?



Oh wait, Brummie not Burmie, sorry

[Cato]

Just so we are clear, I do not talk like that. My spoken English is immaculate

Does this mean I can safely conclude that Ozzy is only intelligible when he sings due to years of drug abuse and not place of origin? 

[SteelCurtain]

Still waiting on that accent tag, Yeauxleaux. Otherwise I'll be forced to conclude that you really do have a deep Brummie accent.

[ignoramus]

Nappa, your description was eerily similar to ours here in Au.

[paulpablo]

Have you ever been to the flaming dragon chinese place on broad street?  They do fucking amazing mussels, I had sex in the travel lodge next door, and also read books in the nearby library there. I also stayed at the paragon hotel once too.

[SteelCurtain]

How does a Brummie feel after last night? Someone got a little drinkyboy.

[Regina]

Still waiting on that accent tag, Yeauxleaux. Otherwise I'll be forced to conclude that you really do have a deep Brummie accent.

I'll see if I can upload one, I'll need to do me barnet first. Ok there is a slight Brummie twang, but there's far worse than me.

And I was hanging this morning but fine now

@paulpablo - No I have not been there, I don't really do that Eastern food life. It's absolutely no shade to the Chinese, it just isn't to my personal taste.

@Napoléon - Whew that's quite a rant and you don't mince your words, but some truths in there. The P.C. brigade talk about "diversity" and how diversity is such a good thing (which it is, not gonna lie). What they miss however, is that these areas of Birmingham which have become Muslim ghettos are not "diverse". To have diversity and to have it being a good thing, you need integration, not segregated homogenous areas. Most black (and non-Muslim Indian too) British people I've come across are so integrated they're not "foreign" to me, they have a distinct "British black" or "British Indian" identity to them that makes them fit in. That's not to say racism doesn't exist against those groups, it does, but they don't come into such frequent conflict with everyone else over "cultural matters". A lot of the Muslims don't have that same distinct "British Muslim" identity. It's not a community of "British Muslims", it's a community of self-segregated Pakistani Muslims living with Britain happening around them. Big difference.