Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Channel 4 News"
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In this whole wider immigration debate, there’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims. However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side. I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this.
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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, or those who were inhabiting these lands for thousands of years before Europeans aggressively pitched up. Not to mention all the African and Indian nonsense that went on as Europeans arrived and belligerently 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 those who moan about immigration into Europe have not a leg to stand on when a few non-Europeans pitch up in their backyard to play.
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As ever with these things, this boils down to the human tribal mentality linked to race (Azerbaijani Azeris v Armenians), religion (Islam v Christianity) and language (Azerbaijani v Armenian). When I consider who I am, my ‘ethnicity’ is next to meaningless. An accident of birth. Equally, I care not a jot about anyone else’s ethnicity when I judge another human being. As an agnostic, I see all organised religion as manmade and, essentially, a human control mechanism along with a comforting fairy tale to shore up the human fear of death. Yes, my language is fairly key to my identity but, as someone who speaks 3 other languages, the only reason English takes precedence is another accident of birth. All told, ethnicity, organised religion and language have so much to answer for when it comes to human internecine conflict.
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Russia, the biggest country by landmass, twice the size of Canada, the second biggest; given this, why can’t those ‘Russians’ in Ukraine just move to Russia, if they are unhappy? Ukraine is a sovereign territory. Has been since 1991. Up until 2014, it seems ethnic Russians were ok with living in Ukraine, co-existing with non-ethnic Russian Ukrainians, much like the Flemish share what we call Belgium with the Walloons. My feeling about all this, and it’s just a guess, is that even the ethnic Russians in Ukraine would be quite happy to live in a sovereign, self-governing Ukraine. My strong feeling about all this, is that since at least 2014, Russia (Putin, mainly) has stirred the pot and played on potential ethnic tensions that actually weren’t really that strong. Again, I have no proof, but my instinct, having closely observed this for nine weeks, is that this is actually about one man more than anything. Putin just couldn’t get over the ‘greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th Century’ (his words), that is, the dissolution of the USSR, and as he is about to pop his clogs, he was impelled to take his revenge for this before he does shuffle off this mortal coil. We should not underestimate just how much this really is one man’s war, and on that score, it just bespeaks how primitive we still are as a species, when we don’t have mechanisms in place to deal with these outlying, power-tripping fuckwits.
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According to the Human Freedom Index, which measures personal and economic freedom in 165 countries, representing 98.1% of the global population, using 82 indicators across 12 categories, Iran comes 5th last, with only Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen and Syria scoring worse. In 2021, Switzerland topped the Index at 9.01, followed by New Zealand and Denmark; the global average score was 7.12. Iran scored 4.03. Regions like North America and Western Europe score highest in freedom, whereas the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia rank lowest, with women's freedoms notably restricted. Venezuela, Egypt, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq made up the top 10 of those countries with least freedom. Aside from outliers like Myanmar and Venezuela, 8 of these countries have one thing in common: Islam.
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