The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111625   Message #2358575
Posted By: Howard Jones
05-Jun-08 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: English Folk Degree?
Subject: RE: English Folk Degree?
Racism is a slippery word, it can mean different things to different people and all too often it is used as a substitute for rational argument. But that's not to say it isn't real.

It appears to me that WAV is perfectly happy that other cultures exist, he is respectful of them, he just doesn't want them here. He doesn't think that's racist. Others do. Make up your own minds.

There are plenty of threats to "good English folk culture", but most of them come from the apathy and even hostility of the English themselves (for example see this letter from yesterdays Times), not from immigrants, whether from other parts of the British Isles or from further afield.