Cultural Holocaust?

Interesting report on the BBC Website today about ethnic minority numbers on the rise in the UK.

Ask many people who bemoan the amount of 'foreigners' in the UK the percentage of ethnic minorities in our country, and you'll probably get an answer anything from ⅓ to over 50%. Such is the ignorance.

As this report shows, it's currently 8%. This is so ruddy low it's almost funny people make such a deal about it.

This 8% figure is everyone who does not consider themselves 'white', which according to organisations like the BNP & EDL are the very people that are over-running our country and swamping our culture.

I remember a few years back having a similar discussion with someone who was adamant that the Mujahideen were camped in his privet hedge. I asked him to take a guess as to what percentage of the UK was non-white. After clarifying if I was including ALL non-whites ("you mean all of them? The yellows as well as the darkies and curry-munchers?"), he said it must easily be near 60% now. He simply didn't believe me when I said the figure was well below 10%.

People like him who see danger in ethnic migration, see colour everywhere. They swear blind that you can't walk down the street without bumping into a dreadlocked rasta off his face on pot or a Muslim wife who's been forced into her hijab.

The fact is, that street will more than likely contain 7-10 white people for every 1 Asian, African or Oriental person you see. Try it yourself - spend 20 minutes counting how many people walk past you and how many are of each ethnicity. Obviously your results will vary on where you are - In many parts of London or larger cities you'd obviously expect it to be a higher ethnic count, but I'd wager that except in certain obvious areas, you'll still find the ratios very much in the white majority. Southall may indeed see this ratio volte-face - but Bourton-on-The-Water* will be a decidedly pasty place.

Although the point of this BBC article is showing that the report estimates the figure is expect to rise greatly over the next 40 years, I think you can also look at it as a way of showing that this country is not actually 'swamped' with people of different ethnicity who are going to destroy our very British way of life.

How can a 92% majority consider itself swamped? How, even if the non-white population does rise to 20% by 2051, can 4/5 of the country actually feel threatened by this, even if we accept the extremely ridiculous notion that all of the estimated 20% will go out of their way not only to avoid assimilating a single aspect of existing British culture and customs, but to actively try and destroy it?

Not everyone likes what the UK stands for and wishes to preserve it's finer aspects. But the likes of these chaps below don't look in any rush to me to settle in Saffron Walden over the next few years.

Perhaps, if our culture is going to be removed by such a small minority of perceived outsiders, it's actually for the better as clearly such a cultural holocaust could only take place if such a whopping majority didn't actually care about their current circumstances enough to preserve the good aspects of it?

Or perhaps more likely, that 92% white majority aren't being swamped at all, as equally won't the 80% in 2051. Despite what the Daily Mail & Express and their readership would have you believe.

Cultural Holocaust? Nah, we'll still have some wankers just as racist and unpleasant to those of different backgrounds, with or without an extra ethnic influx.

Similarly, the good things about this fair land will also remain - chief among these, thank god, will be wide-spread tolerance and acceptance of minorities.

As the French say - vive la différence!

Mind you, I'd have a different slant on all this if it was mostly French people coming in, with their smelly cheeses, their hairy armpits & their surrender-monkeying.



*I grew up near there in the extraordinarily-white Cotswolds. At my school of around 800 children, there was 1 Chinese girl, 1 Indian girl and 2 black boys during the time I was there. The rest was ethnically Caucasian.