English people attitude towards Poles?

i'm from the US in the South...so people automatically assume i'm a racist, which is why one of my best friends is a black guy...lol, yeah, i think thats pretty racist too :)

its "ooop norf " lol
no, er,Argyleshire origionally,checkmate lol

so... you have a good black friend becaue people automatically assume your racist...?

Not half - 13c

aye..

no, lol. i'm saying people automatically assume i'm a racist hillbilly because i'm from the south, yet one of my best friends is black...i'm just saying some people assume your something just because where you're from...i don't even know if its relevant, at the time it seemed like it was, but now i'm just confused as hell :D

What the hell is this ?

lol,I would have put the disclaimer,some of my best mates are black/asian. but it sounds cheesy and anyway,why should i....he he, you should have heard us at collage, me,a guy from Ivory coast and a guy from pakistan, the stuff we'd call each other just to wind up the pc mob :)

Its context and intention, Im not sure I like the fact lady that your implying im rascist just because I know what bairnchudd means or that ghandu was not a cousin of Ghandi

.k

aye means yes in oopnorfish

6 Points in scrabble

aye aye

i remember when i was in london a black guy sat next to me on a bus and at one point we might have even looked at each other but i cant remember exactly


you learn fast

Yes but, the problem I feel (and is just my view) is that you can identify 'common properties' in any nationality but it still wouldn't produce you an average of what we now term as a "British ' person. My reasoning is that there are far too many

variables entering the equation to be able to produce a meaningful average in this case. What would you put down as 'common properties then' for example ?

It's easy to do it in say a country like Poland. e.g. One could say that the average polish person is Catholic. That could be based on fact (high percentage are) or a generalisation (as again it's factual knowledge) .

How could you say something similar for Britiain. Also, bearing in mind that we are now England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Even the term 'Brit' is questionable as well !!

aye aye can also mean "phwor" or "hubba hubba" :)
or just aye aye look at her ,what does she think she looks like
Eeeh lad,is another aye...or ey oop, meaning hi.....

I didn't imply anything. I merely stated that I was not entering into such a discussion.

How you choose to interpret that is down to you and your understanding. I cannot be held responsible for the way you choose to read what I have written in black and white. Huh !!

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:)

Interesting question.
When one thinks of stereotypes are we drawing on the "common properties" or the uncommon, or the "just different from me" properties ?

weve only been britain since the union of 1708(?)
and of course you cannot come up with an average briton,thats why you narrow it down into sub groups,english (chwip spurrgh) Scots welsh etc then maybe further down to british asian,british muslim British bangladeshi etc etc but, seemingly even though you are looking for ways to "find" the avarage brit you dont seem to like the most obviuos way to subdivide for clarity as I attempted to do.

When I was in my early to mid 20s no one gave a crap about these labels and beyond loony bnp types people were pretty much colour blind. Over the last few years we have seen increasing nonsense handed down from on high that seems to want to subdivide us and point out differences and have everyone in nice little boxes and at the same time not......

Wherever you go in the world, you will always be in the minority.

well tell you what lady in red come out and tell me straight what you think instead of hiding behind little comments designed to get peoples backs up, come on,libal me Im gonna pee myself when I show my collegues at work this thread tommorow and so will they:)

again,always the mature course of action ,and one taken by people with no leg to stand on..."Im not entering into a discussion" wow,thats gonna work innit

:)

if we can agree that common properties is synonimous with characteristics then the results of a MORI poll might answer your question -

The MORI report found a great deal of resistance to the idea – especially among
the British focus groups – that there was any such thing as uniquely “British”
characteristics. Nonetheless, a number of clear characteristics which could
be described as “typically British” emerged fairly consistently from all the groups:

• humour;
• politeness;
• individuality;
• pride;
• tradition/history; and
• reserved/uptight/snobbishness.

These lead us to the criteria for assessing Great Britons.

Characteristics of Great Britons

Reserved

Tradition & modernity

Sense of humour

Strength & determination

People who are perceived to have achieved things despite the odds are regarded as more “typically” British than people who are perceived to have had an easier time of it.

Paul Crake
RSA Programme Director

lets just add this as another supposed characteristic

Yes, they probably will - but why?

That's not actually true. Britain has been a very racist country and though things have changed to a large degree it is still with us. It's just that then, there were no laws to help those who were being racially attacked in all areas across our society. :( Therefore, many chose to turn a blind eye to what was happening. ( When I say 'attacked' i dont mean physically. I mean in the workforce, day to day lives etc)


No. I don't wish too......what are you going to do now ? Bully me, call me names. etc......

:(

my poor spelling and slightly ranting tone maybe....damn ,wheres the blushing emoticon when you need it. Seriously guys,im no rascist,just old n cynical and a bit of a devils advocate sometimes ....

I never look at mori polls bubba.......

what date is that mori poll from and to please ?

last thing id want to do,my apologies Lady

I'll have to follow on with this tomorrow am just too tired to discuss it any further this evening. But it's an interesting debate so will be happy to continue with it tomorrow.

:)

Night all :)

whether you look at them or not they remain a respected research organisation

the report was a work-in-progress 2OO4 - 2OO5

just one more thing ma'am...how can a "country" be rascist, people from that country maybe,but the whole country? Even in Sth africa there were plenty of white people in or supporting the ANC by definition south africa had a policy of rascism but a "country" is just land,hills and rivers etc....unless the Trents a rascist

No me neither. Generally these polls reflect about 1000 (or however many people are asked - never more than a couple of thou) people in society and not the British public as a whole.


Night LIR :)

Night LiR.
Here is a link for breakfast tomorrow.