Garry, I've never supported or welcomed the genocides committed by the British.
So its not any way to support/defend or condone a desecration, destruction or invasion of Britain.
It happened for a wide range of reasons... very few of them right or fair... and the same can be said about what is happening now. The solution is not burning books and labels and 'camps'.
He smears British people as lazy scum, and makes up a load of lies.
He is talking from personal experience regarding the people he has had contact with... my brother spent some time in the UK and worked on building sites and he said that the people who hire prefer kiwis and aussies because they actually work while the locals tend to turn up, sign in and then bugger off till smoko. The people doing the hiring were corrupt as well... they would pretend to hire 50 guys and only hire 30 and pocket the extra wages themselves. Now that is not to say that all construction everywhere in Britain is exactly like that, but clearly some of it is. BTW he told me they were pulling down an old block of flats and all of a sudden the locals turned up and took over the job of working in the bathrooms... it seems the tiles were worth a pound each undamaged so they would carefully remove them and take them round the back of the build site to a guy in the van. When the bosses found out they demanded a cut.
I am not going to say that that makes all Brits criminals or lazy... it is just the system they had in place where there was no accountability for each worker so the locals pretended they were working on another floor... they might be playing soccer or off down the pub... the only problem was when the bosses turned up for lunch, but you just buy them a beer and find another pub for tomorrow.
If you let me round your house to stay and then I said "Garry you're a cunt, you're all lazy New Zealand scum", you'd probably be a little offended, yes?
I would just write you off as another winging pom mate...
and now Britain. ANY and EVERY country can do without his kind. Surely you can see that?
Someone who is guilty of being patriotic is someone guilty of being human.
Don't take it so personally. He is entitled to his opinion and calling him names is not going to change his opinion, though it might make you feel better it is really just a waste of your energy.
Most people generalise, I am sure there are a few Brits he admires and respects too... but if you abuse him he is going to ignore that..
In general terms, short term economic migration is a problem because it is not a fair competition. British people cant take their money back to Pakistan or Estonia. So Brits become exploited and oppressed. That isnt a good thing or a democratic thing.
Likewise, Muslim fanatics (or Baltic Nazis) aren't healthy for a tolerant and cultured society- another reason to ban it, yes?
Look at the US Canada border and the US Mexico border... that is the price of success. Most westerners have no idea what life is like in other countries... the worst thing the west has done in the last 200 years is not bomb or shoot, it has been to embargo and isolate. Bomb craters can be filled, but being forced to struggle to survive is far worse... of course people from such countries would like to live where the infrastructure is intact, where roads are built and maintained... where there is a bus service and electricity supply that isn't on from 10am till 2pm during the day if that.
Perhaps if the West had been nicer and allowed countries to grow and prosper they wouldn't be running to the west to make some money.
Of course realistically the current movement of people to the west is actually only a fraction of the number it could be.
If he can honestly claim that while coming of age in the Soviet Union in the 1980s he had free and unrestricted access to a multitude of books and printed material representing a variety of viewpoints, then I will retract my remark.
Black markets are everywhere... ironic in this case...
Were you free to read anything and everything you wanted?
Should you be asking me?
Perhaps I would have a different opinion of you if you had opened with such a question and then stated your views based upon that answer.
Personally I try not to judge the people I interact with, and certainly the idea of prejudging them based upon their skin colour or ethnicity is mildly vulgar to me. I realise it is not helpful, but it reminds me of the Nazis and their world view and I find that repellent.
Cuba is a basket-case and an economic back-water, although much of that can be attributed to the US embargo.
Much? Cuba was the med of the atlantic and would be THE go to holiday destination for north americans... except the US bans that.
However, the fact that Cuba claims, "America hurts us with their embargo" is a tacit admission that communism does not work.
Clearly Chinese communism shows it can work when the rich west invests in their economy by using their cheap labour.
It wouldn't matter what form of government the Cubans adopt as long as the US has an embargo they are in trouble. Democratic Iran proves the point. As does Communist China.
If they were truly convinced of the validity of communism and if communism were truly workable, they would not want to trade with the USA and they would not need to trade with the USA.
Really? Because the US was happy to licence production in the Communist Soviet Union... the DC-3, a wide range of Ford trucks and tractors, the Maxim machine gun are just a small selection of US or western products licence produced in the Soviet Union.
Communism is not about a closed economic system, the communist chinese system at the moment has a free market economy... the main difference is that the Chinese have one political party and the US has two.
Cuba's relationship towards the USA is the equivalent of a wayward son who moves out of the house at age 18 but then still calls mom and dad on a regular basis because he needs them to pay his rent, pay for his groceries, pay for his utilities, and pay for his gasoline.
Cuba and the US are not related it is more like a neighbour punishing a neighbour. The US does not and has never paid Cubas bills or assisted it in any way. Before Castro most Cubans had menial jobs and most of the land owners were white foreigners, and most of the money was in casinos controlled by US criminal organisations. If your goal was to be a cabana boy all your life then it was utopia.
Cuba talks a big talk about communism and self-sufficiency and how they don't need to deal with market economy nations, but then in the next sentence they moan about how the American embargo has hurt their nation and how they want to be able to buy food, medicine, spare parts for their vehicles, and modern vehicles, from the USA.
Communism has nothing to do with self sufficiency... communism does not mean the country is not open to international trade.
I rather doubt Cuba wants to buy anything from the US, it is the US economic action against any company that operates in Cuba and the US that is the problem... who is going to enter the Cuban market if it means they cannot enter the US market?
The US is just a bully.
And a petty one at that. They were happy to trade with China... a country that pushed them out of North Korea during the Korean war, but wont trade with Cuba... both communist countries, but China has killed rather more Americans than Cuba ever did.
The Arabs simply took the collective knowledge of the Greek-Roman world assembled at the library of Alexandria as well as the Persian library of Gundashapur and brought it all together in one place. They also compelled thousands of the best minds of the Greek and Roman worlds to work on massive projects for them, although this was common with the Turks, Arabs, and Mongols.
Thank you.
You have described western white civilisation.
They simply took the collective knowledge of the world and assembled it into one system and used it to built their "world".
They stood on the shoulders of Giants, but claim to have reached heights all on their own...
They claim if they fall no one will ever reach such heights again...