Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Polls open in France as Macron aims to beat far-right Le Pen - BBC News" video.

  1. In my experience every culture I can think of in the UK integrates fine. Elements of Islam buck this trend, but the rest are fine.
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  2. It’s unfortunate that France has to bear the burden of their Empire after all these years, isn’t it? If they didn’t want so many players of African heritage in their team, then perhaps they should have kept their nose out of African business in the first place.
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  3. She is a bit. If you look closely her right leg is slightly shorter than her left.
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  4. I’ve always found it interesting when Europeans who consider themselves ‘indigenous’ to this continent and more entitled thereby compared to other less-entitled, ‘non-indigenous’ folk, suddenly go silent when America is mentioned, or Australia, or New Zealand, or Mexico, or Peru, or Brazil; for by their logic no European who arrived post 1519 in Mexico, post 1524 in Peru, post 1500 in Brazil, post 1620 in America, and no European who arrived after 1606 in Australia and in New Zealand after 1642 has more entitlement than the ‘indigenous’ Aborigines. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and aggressively imposed their ways. No, somehow it’s ok that European settlers moved to these places and brutally subjugated (and in millions of cases, enslaved) those already settled there, but when non-Europeans arrive in Europe, to work, to seek a better life in most cases, somehow that’s just not on. Hypocrisy and double-standards doesn’t begin to cover it, and Le Pen and her ilk have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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  5. She is a bit. If you look closely her right leg is slightly shorter than her left.
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  6. Why are you telling us?
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  7.  @funnyboyjohn  So why shouldn’t the native peoples of every country from North America to South America feel ‘entitled’ to their countries and throw all the ‘non-indigenous’ European stock out then? You can’t have one rule for one and another rule for you, for that would be double standards hypocrisy of the most egregious kind.
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  8. Lol@‘veiled’.
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  9. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies, strong support for the Armed Forces, suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures, strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty), and a general authoritarianism and the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms.
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  10.  @funnyboyjohn  Mixed race? Moi? I fear you may have the wrong person, mate. Try again. Try better. If you’re up to it.
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  11.  @jamiedalton2623  It’s called ‘immigration’, mate. They are coming here to live and work, not brutally subjugate and enslave.
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  12.  @davidblackwood106  Indeed. Just good to be aware of what our forbears did, though, eh?
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  13.  @funnyboyjohn  *were a European *it’s
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  14. What you got against pigs? They are some of the sweetest creatures on Earth; and they’re a darn sight more honourable than human beings.
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  15.  Mike Kush ❈  Indeed. You invade and brutally occupy several countries without their consent, and the descendants of these countries actually win the World Cup for you! France should be grateful.
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