Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jul 5
th, 2014 at 7:44pm:
I don't want to share my country with a bunch of cowards.
Aren't you South African? Didn't you flee the RSA when the Apartheid government was deposed?
Quote:The Sri Lankans leaving were described a Lankan work colleague to me as useless, trouble makers who wouldn't be missed.
Out of a matter of interest, is he Sinhalese, rather than Tamil?
Quote:So were taking in other peoples garbage in other words?
We always have. Forgotten who were the first European settlers? The dross of the British working class, the sweepings of the gutter, the inmates of the prison hulks...
Quote:Interesting most are men in those boats. So they fled and left the women and children behind?
It is invariably the men who are active politically and therefore the most likely to earn the wrath of the government or opposition groups. Women and children tend to be left alone because of that.
Quote:Like I said cowards. Just what I'd expect from them.
My grandad served in India during the unrest in 1946-48. He told me what they are like on the subcontinent.
So, you don't think matters might have changed in over 50 years?
Nowadays, rather than the British Empire killing the natives, it's the natives killing their fellow natives...
Quote:Running away and leaving their women is about right for that lot.
I don't want to share my country with cowards.
Yet we have welcomed South Africans, Rhodesians, British, Irish, Scots, Welsh, all fleeing oppression and hardship, to name a few nationalities and I'm sure you've welcomed them as well Andrei. Could it be they're OK 'cause they're white?