The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113211   Message #2412616
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
13-Aug-08 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (temp.)
"Racism: belief in superiority of particular race,; antagonism towards members of a different race based upon this" (Collins Dictionary)...I hate imperialism/"superiority of particular race" and I have only questioned the act of immigration itself - NOT any "differnet race" Pip. However, it's not just on Mudcat that pro-immigrationist keep trying to equate racism with the questioning of immigration, so it's not surprising that dictionary definitions have moved that way. But, just recently, there has been a movement back toward the understanding that, in a democracy, it IS acceptable to question immigration, and NOT acceptable to brand someone as a racist for doing so. So your criticism IS false and defamatory.
Volgadon - I cited Dig. Trad. above over "Barbara Allen"...there is an English and a Scottish version, and dispute over which came first.
I don't know a lot about Noel Coward, frankly - I'm mainly into English folk and hymns.
Nationalism with fair-trade - a UN regulated (NOT free) global economy.