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An email I sent to the Vanessa Felz Show on BBC Radio London in response to a call for views on the London Borough of Brent: | |||
I was born and grew up in
Wembley (now part of Brent) in the 1950's and 60's and witnessed how its
population, along with its entire culture and character
changed from native British to multi-ethnic mix.
When, a few years ago, I went
back for a nostalgic walk down memory lane, I was shocked
and confused: the streets and buildings were nearly all as
they had been, but the people had completely changed: not
just a new generation, but a different race and culture
and a cacophony of foreign languages.
Looking for the odd white face
amongst the crowd, I was left feeling like a foreigner in
my own country, which made me sad and then angry. Not, I
hasten to add, at the immigrants themselves, who one can
hardly blame for taking advantage of the opportunities
made available to them (and who on the whole are nice
enough people), but at the politicians who allowed this to
happen, and the intellectual elite, especially in the
media, who encouraged them, and who silenced anyone from
the native population who objected (as many did) by
accusing them of "racism". My parents joined the "white
flight" feeling bitter and betrayed, although they didn't
flee far enough and the flood of immigrants soon caught up
with them; but to their credit, they never voted for BNP
(or whatever it was called back then); they just stopped
voting for anyone.
I am left wondering how such
madness (allowing mass immigration into our already
overpopulated country and imposing
multi-racial/multi-cultural society on an ethnically and
culturally more-or-less homogenous native society) could
occur in our "enlightened" and "democratic" country. Now
there's subject for an anthropologist, who perhaps
(hopefully) some day soon we can hear discussing his study
with Laurie Taylor on
BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allow.
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