A Non Racist Observation
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A Non Racist Observation
Just checked into a hotel so I can collect my wife from the airport tomorrow. Nice hotel in Hayes, just 15 minutes drive to Heathrow.
Popped into Sainsbury's to get some bits and pieces and was surprised to find I was the only white person in the entire shop (excluding one guy at the tills).
There were more white people in a supermarket I went to in Mumbai. You could be forgiven for thinking that this supermarket was in India or Pakistan.
I never knew that this part of London had been so completely taken over by immigrants and their descendents. I knew that towns like Bradford had become more than 90% asian but this still came as a surprise.
Really not sure what to think. Obviously integration into the ethnic stream has not happened but for me the jury is out at present.
Popped into Sainsbury's to get some bits and pieces and was surprised to find I was the only white person in the entire shop (excluding one guy at the tills).
There were more white people in a supermarket I went to in Mumbai. You could be forgiven for thinking that this supermarket was in India or Pakistan.
I never knew that this part of London had been so completely taken over by immigrants and their descendents. I knew that towns like Bradford had become more than 90% asian but this still came as a surprise.
Really not sure what to think. Obviously integration into the ethnic stream has not happened but for me the jury is out at present.
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Did they charge you tourist price?TOG wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:14 pm Just checked into a hotel so I can collect my wife from the airport tomorrow. Nice hotel in Hayes, just 15 minutes drive to Heathrow.
Popped into Sainsbury's to get some bits and pieces and was surprised to find I was the only white person in the entire shop (excluding one guy at the tills).
There were more white people in a supermarket I went to in Mumbai. You could be forgiven for thinking that this supermarket was in India or Pakistan.
I never knew that this part of London had been so completely taken over by immigrants and their descendents. I knew that towns like Bradford had become more than 90% asian but this still came as a surprise.
Really not sure what to think. Obviously integration into the ethnic stream has not happened but for me the jury is out at present.
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Re: A Non Racist Observation
Try Southall, a little further on from Hayes. Some of the best Pakistani food outside of Lahore.
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imagine how they feel / felt when its reverse-- which it usually isTOG wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:14 pm Just checked into a hotel so I can collect my wife from the airport tomorrow. Nice hotel in Hayes, just 15 minutes drive to Heathrow.
Popped into Sainsbury's to get some bits and pieces and was surprised to find I was the only white person in the entire shop (excluding one guy at the tills).
There were more white people in a supermarket I went to in Mumbai. You could be forgiven for thinking that this supermarket was in India or Pakistan.
I never knew that this part of London had been so completely taken over by immigrants and their descendents. I knew that towns like Bradford had become more than 90% asian but this still came as a surprise.
Really not sure what to think. Obviously integration into the ethnic stream has not happened but for me the jury is out at present.
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Re: A Non Racist Observation
While waiting for your brown wife to arrive at the airport you got pissed off by how many brown people they were letting in to your country.
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As soon as a conversation starts with "A Non-Racist Observation" you know what is coming.
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Re: A Non Racist Observation
Perhaps you can enlighten us all rather than making a cryptic comment.
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I lived in London for 15 years and don't remember ever having to go to Hayes, unless it was on the way to or from Heathrow. There are loads of shithole suburbs around many European cities that have a lot of immigrants, but who cares because it's very unlikely you'll ever need to go to one.
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My wife is Singaporean Chinese and has a very pale complexion.
Usual stupid reply from someone who has not read my post properly.
The last time I was in Hayes was around 50 years ago and the asian population were regarded as being exotic. When an ethnic group is displaced I do not think it is a good thing. I think it is much better if different cultures are spread around rather than grouped all together like Western people tend to do when they move overseas. In a foreign country I prefer to live among the original ethnic group rather than my own countrymen.
I just wonder why people move to a foreign country and try to turn it into what they have left behind?
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nothing wrong w/ bringing some of your own culture with you when you leave a country behind.
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