(December 19, 2016 at 12:52 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(December 19, 2016 at 11:12 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yes. But my point was about how they perceive the two nations, not that their perceptions were correct.
lol, "aggressively". Were you much worried about aggression in 2003 when your own country helped mine in creating this mess in the first place?
In case you haven't noticed, I'm not saying that you're wrong -- you're probably right, plenty of Englishmen scared of foreigners and busy erecting walls (yours legal, because you have the luxury of the Channel) to keep them out. I'm not arguing that. There are small people the world over -- my own country just had 48 million of them out themselves and fuck our country in so doing.
I've usually found it to be a fig leaf for an ugly xenophobia. It's clear that people like Bella have yet to read John Donne's Meditation XVII, or understand it.
Why would they mistakenly think they're welcome into a country that law enforcers are aggressively trying to keep them out of?
Perhaps because the news in Syria or Libya is too busy reporting body counts to report on UK attitudes towards immigration?
