Before I continue this post, I'd like to point out that this is an opinion based upon my real world experience.
Recently, I moved to Rusholme in Manchester, and I live right on the 'Curry Mile'. Hundreds of people, of differents races, cultures and creeds, live in this area. You can buy fried chicken from one place, shwarma from down the road and even Syrian confectionary in a shop nearby.
I love where I live. Sure, it's a little bit busy. There are buses 24 hours a day going past my flat, and there's a blind gentleman that shouts 'WHY' at the top of his lungs on most mornings, over and over again. That's fine, albeit a little irritating at 8:00am.
Sometimes, I hear people arguing across the road, especially after a night out. On the odd occasion, however, I'll hear an altercation in the day. It's always an English man or woman, shouting at somebody else who isn't responding. I once witnessed a shouting match on the tram to Didsbury, and again, it was two English men after a night out, drunk and angry. During the time last week when the Stone Roses were playing, I saw two English women having a fight in the street over something that I couldn't quite discern. It seemed fairly arbitrary a point to fight over nonetheless, not to mention to do so in the street. I'm also quite certain they were also drunk.
You want to know what I see in Rusholme? I see people going to a shisha cafe, talking amongst themselves, flirting with people they find attractive, eating good food and laughing. They always dress well, and look clean and tidy. They respect themselves and other around them. Sometimes I'll see a beggar in the street, asking for change or a light for their cigarette. One homeless man asked me for a light, and when I told him I didn't have one, he didn't shout at me like some of the beggars I see in the centre of Manchester. He just told me to have a wonderful day.
What I see in Rusholme is not a boatload of immigrants, taking over our land, stealing our jobs and threatening to bring people to harm. What I see is a melting pot of cultures that are, in my opinion, far superior to our own.
I don't see these people as 'Foreigners' or 'Immigrants'. I see them as human beings. People who, just like anybody else on the planet, want to live a comfortable enough life, maybe start a family, teach their children to be good people, to respect their culture and creed, and not to disrespect others.
So, what are we so afraid of? 0.5 percent of our population is taken up by immigrants. They help to boost our economy by working in this country. If I ever emigrated to another country in, for example, Europe, I don't think I would receive as much hate as some of these people do from us for being an immigrant.
This is beginning to feel as though I am rambling on, but the point I'm trying to make is this: these people that have come to live in our country are not aliens. They aren't here to destroy our way of life and replace it with their own. They just want to co-exist. I know this because I am one of them: a human being!
It makes me impossibly angry reading the news these days. All I see is Xenophobia, Racism and Hatred from the press. These problems that we face in the UK are not caused by immigration. Not the NHS, Not the housing crisis, not benefits. They are caused by our inaction as a nation to solve the real cause of these issues, because a high concentration of people in this country are too quick to blame somebody else, and usually the nearest person different from them.
I agree, we should take Britain back. Take it back from the people who hold us back, who concentrate all their resources and time into political gain, at the expense of the minority, rather than the benefit of the nation as a whole.
Leaving the EU will only make this worse.
Recently, I moved to Rusholme in Manchester, and I live right on the 'Curry Mile'. Hundreds of people, of differents races, cultures and creeds, live in this area. You can buy fried chicken from one place, shwarma from down the road and even Syrian confectionary in a shop nearby.
I love where I live. Sure, it's a little bit busy. There are buses 24 hours a day going past my flat, and there's a blind gentleman that shouts 'WHY' at the top of his lungs on most mornings, over and over again. That's fine, albeit a little irritating at 8:00am.
Sometimes, I hear people arguing across the road, especially after a night out. On the odd occasion, however, I'll hear an altercation in the day. It's always an English man or woman, shouting at somebody else who isn't responding. I once witnessed a shouting match on the tram to Didsbury, and again, it was two English men after a night out, drunk and angry. During the time last week when the Stone Roses were playing, I saw two English women having a fight in the street over something that I couldn't quite discern. It seemed fairly arbitrary a point to fight over nonetheless, not to mention to do so in the street. I'm also quite certain they were also drunk.
You want to know what I see in Rusholme? I see people going to a shisha cafe, talking amongst themselves, flirting with people they find attractive, eating good food and laughing. They always dress well, and look clean and tidy. They respect themselves and other around them. Sometimes I'll see a beggar in the street, asking for change or a light for their cigarette. One homeless man asked me for a light, and when I told him I didn't have one, he didn't shout at me like some of the beggars I see in the centre of Manchester. He just told me to have a wonderful day.
What I see in Rusholme is not a boatload of immigrants, taking over our land, stealing our jobs and threatening to bring people to harm. What I see is a melting pot of cultures that are, in my opinion, far superior to our own.
I don't see these people as 'Foreigners' or 'Immigrants'. I see them as human beings. People who, just like anybody else on the planet, want to live a comfortable enough life, maybe start a family, teach their children to be good people, to respect their culture and creed, and not to disrespect others.
So, what are we so afraid of? 0.5 percent of our population is taken up by immigrants. They help to boost our economy by working in this country. If I ever emigrated to another country in, for example, Europe, I don't think I would receive as much hate as some of these people do from us for being an immigrant.
This is beginning to feel as though I am rambling on, but the point I'm trying to make is this: these people that have come to live in our country are not aliens. They aren't here to destroy our way of life and replace it with their own. They just want to co-exist. I know this because I am one of them: a human being!
It makes me impossibly angry reading the news these days. All I see is Xenophobia, Racism and Hatred from the press. These problems that we face in the UK are not caused by immigration. Not the NHS, Not the housing crisis, not benefits. They are caused by our inaction as a nation to solve the real cause of these issues, because a high concentration of people in this country are too quick to blame somebody else, and usually the nearest person different from them.
I agree, we should take Britain back. Take it back from the people who hold us back, who concentrate all their resources and time into political gain, at the expense of the minority, rather than the benefit of the nation as a whole.
Leaving the EU will only make this worse.