Message from @Fluffles
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lole
i can’t say i was surprised either. a lot of average folks in these countries are getting extremely sick of the rising muslim enclaves in their cities.
people are always hostile towards the other
thats just human nature
@Fluffles whites have lived in New Zealand since the 1700s, you can’t act as if it isn’t a homeland for large numbers of white people now.
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true enough
if you live anywhere in the US/UK/CAN/AUS/NZ Anglosphere it’s pretty much a given that most of the people there are white and most of them have been living in these respective lands for hundreds of years now.
see i think i have a very different perspective as a nonwhite in the anglosphere
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what *is* your ethnicity, if you don’t mind my asking?
im chinese
idk, here’s the thing to me
before, in places like the US and the UK, immigrant groups would temporarily cause a scare at first and then it would peter away because said immigrant groups would gradually assimilate themselves within a decade or so into the local culture
they assimilated because of stuff like this
rampant racism and discrimination, being killed, that stuff happened to basically any immigrant group
they assimilated because they had to to survive
are you saying it’s better not to assimilate?
What's the saying, when in rome do as the Roman's do
when the alternative is basically death apparently not
it’s when you *don’t* assimilate that discord grows between ethnic groups
they don't have to interact with the white majority
Which creates problems when things conflict with the laws of the land
and it’s when these muslim enclaves force islamic law onto non-muslims that this really pisses people off
my point here is that this is relatively different from most other instnaces of immgrant groups
correct
previous immigrant groups didn’t attempt to enforce their cultural customs onto the majority
It's a different kind of immigration too, traditionally it's been European waves of immigration, where the values were skewed but mostly inline
It's a shit storm of circumstance and the current zeitgeist
you can walk through Chinatown or the Irish Quarter without being told to put on a head covering, like my mother was when we were walking quietly through a Muslim neighbourhood in London
right because if they did shit like what just happened would happen to them
this is the same sorta shit thats been happening to immigrant groups
you *don’t* have the right to force foreign customs on locals when you are the outsider
this is the same expectation if you work as an ex-pat in Hong Kong or Shanghai
it isn’t exclusive to Western countries
this is common sense
I hate to use the word but it's better to go along with the flow in public, makes things better overall
refusing to assimilate is the genesis for these sorts of problems
and you know what? we know historically Muslims *can* assimilate, they are deliberately choosing not to now