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2007-06-26 Britain

UK 'one of worst countries for social mobility'

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Posted by lotp 2007-06-26 06:26|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 In the past Brits who wanted to move up in society would go abroad to places like Pakistan, or Nigeria etc. to civilize them (it even kind of worked in India). Many of the problems this article discusses could be similarly solved - the unassimilated youth could go to Pakistan etc. where they would feel much more at home.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-26 07:45|| 2007-06-26 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 It has also been pointed out in past that Labour governments generally result in high unemployment, economic and social stagnation, and sky high rates of alcoholism and drug abuse.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-26 17:28|| 2007-06-26 17:28|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the interesting things about keeping immigrants apart is that they never assimilate physically. Though they may be Americans legally and spiritually, you can frequently tell an immigrant just from the way they look and dress. But their children look, sound and dress much more like Americans, generally because they want to and their grand children are Americans because they never had the chance to be anything else. If you don't accept and assimilate at some point, the three generation process never starts.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-06-26 17:33|| 2007-06-26 17:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Why yes. That's why my ancestors ejected from the place over a hundred years ago. BFO.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-26 19:33|| 2007-06-26 19:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Complete and utter drek penned by hand-wringing, sushi-eating muppets from Islington. I know people from school who grew up in council houses and are now living in 8-bedroom houses, driving the latest BMWs, etc. Half a million Poles apparently agree with me too.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Sputh1932 2007-06-26 19:33|| 2007-06-26 19:33|| Front Page Top

#6 To be contrary, one of the reasons that the Poles are doing so well is that they come in figuring that they will never be "accepted" into posh society, nor that they will be on the Queen's New Year List for awards. They are looking for, and getting, a different form of social mobility - economic returns. British society is still strangled by the level of class and privilege that aristocracies breed. The reason that the Poles are free of that infliction is that the Soviets managed to exterminate the majority of Polish aristocrats when they helped liquidate the Polish officer corps during WWII and the subsequent occupation/Iron Curtain period.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-06-26 20:11|| 2007-06-26 20:11|| Front Page Top

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