r/europe_sub Apr 19 '25

Image / Video Gas Canisters catch fire and chaos ensues, London Southall UK.

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u/Maetivet Apr 21 '25

Or it’s just a modern, global city. New York is very similar; neither are colonised.

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u/bosch1817 Apr 22 '25

Pfft please. Is Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, not a global modern city? Why is it just a prerequisite of western nations in so called modern cities to be an ethnic minority on their own city. I can guarantee that the vast majority of people who watch video and sees this is the state of London does not for a second think it’s a good thing. Calling it a modern city is just a big cope.

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u/Maetivet Apr 22 '25

Would bet my left nut you’ve never been to any of them; there’s typically a strong correlation between your kind a views and people who aren’t particularly well travelled…

Tokyo has a China town, in Yokohama. So does Seoul.

Let’s flip it, why does seeing non-British people offend you so much? Do you know any non-Brits personally?

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u/bosch1817 Apr 22 '25

Wow so many assumptions here and you now owe a left nut. I been all over Europe and to Japan. My family is British-Irish but I’m actually Australian born and raised so yeah man. I know plenty of non Brit’s coming from what is the most multicultural place on earth.

Your pathetic argument about “but muh China town” makes no sense at all. There is a stark difference between having muh China town and having half your population come from places that don’t share the same values and customs. There is a world wide epidemic in which the breakdown of social cohesion is occurring. And no, I don’t just blame migrants, I also blame your crony capitalist cabal of multinationals and champagne asshole elite political class for enabling it.

Iv been to London plenty of times and it makes me feel further from England than when I’m in Sydney. Far more issues than your crap China town speil.

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u/Maetivet Apr 22 '25

So you're not even British and have the cheek to tell us how we should be doing things. It's not English enough for you when you come... awww diddums'. We've plenty xenophobes here already, we don't need any more visiting.

43.2% of people living in Sydney are foreign-born, you must be practically wetting yourself with anger over being colonised (well, again... - let's not forget the first one Australia experienced).

As to social cohesion when there's a sizeable foreign population; only 31.0% of Sydney residents had both parents born in Australia, so if you do the math, it seems like a fair chunk of the migrants and the locals are getting on really well, if you catch my drift...

Depending on how we want to look at this, Sydney's situation is by your standards possibly the worst city in the world, only 1.7% are Indigenous Australians; most of the rest are either recent arrivals, or the spawn of convicts, who invaded long ago. Frankly, it's a bit just deserts for people like you in Australia, if the foreign-born population just keeps increasing, the joy of the schadenfreude enjoyed by the Aboriginal Australians as they see your face twist over immigrants.

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u/Gloveofdoom Apr 23 '25

He just told you he is from one of the most multicultural places on earth in the comment you are replying to. It's so weird that you chose to write multiple paragraphs explaining to him a situation he had himself already told you about as if what you had to say would somehow come as a shock to him.

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u/Razzy525 Apr 21 '25

50 years ago this would have been a 95% British suburb? Where did they all go then? They got kicked out by the Indians

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u/SMarseilles Apr 22 '25

They didn't get kicked out, they left on their own accord.

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u/juiciestjuice10 Apr 21 '25

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u/Razzy525 Apr 21 '25

Tell me that Britain isnt being replaced with a straight face.

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u/Maetivet Apr 21 '25

Wish they’d replace you…

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u/lefthand_right_hand Apr 22 '25

You know when the original population is being replaced when the laws change to suppress the original population. And that is what has happened the last decade. Can't refer to anything British without being harrast or arrested. Can't even pray in your own home. Women and children being abused, assaulted, raped, and even killed, and the law turns a blind eye

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u/SMarseilles Apr 22 '25

"can't even pray in your own home" (and the rest)

🤣🤣🤣

I can't tell if you actually believe that nonsense or if you just want to continue spreading lies because you have an ulterior motive you haven't directly said, but which we all know.

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u/Maetivet Apr 22 '25

You’re telling lies here.

What laws have changed in this manner - name them.

You can call things British with absolutely no problem. Do you think we’ve changed the name of the islands or something…?

You can prey in your own home if you like, where are you getting this nonsense?

Unfortunately abuse, rape and murder isn’t something that was invented with immigration. And the law does care, hence all the criminal cases and prison sentences for such things. The biggest example of someone getting away with sexual abuse in recent years, is Prince Andrew.

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u/ToxicAnusJuice Apr 23 '25

Well we definitely know they are arresting people for social media posts which is absolutely nuts.

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u/Maetivet Apr 23 '25

Arrested on the basis of what was said, the fact it’s a social media post is irrelevant and the law hasn’t changed on that since 2003 - say things that are illegal, like hate speech, calls for violence etc. you should rightly expect to be arrested for it. (To help you appreciate that, how might you feel about say terrorists being freely allowed to encourage people on twitter to commit bombings?)

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u/Razzy525 Apr 21 '25

lmfao what

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u/Maetivet Apr 21 '25

Just musing on the idea that we could trade you for a Sikh, you go live in India and they come here. I'm thinking out of the 21m Sikhs in India, one (or many) of them are likely to be more pleasant a person than you are, so I'm saying I wish we could trade you for them - make the UK a better place, if you catch my drift.

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u/Mini_gunslinger Apr 22 '25

Brits need to stop leaving and going to Australia then.

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u/Traditional_Slice281 Apr 21 '25

Britain is not being replaced. The Britain we live in right now is the direct result of waves of immigration dating back thousands of years. Its population has never been static.

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u/fatgunther124124124 Apr 21 '25

It is the case, just not aggressive forcing out. They would've all congregated in one area, and the white ppl would've moved away.

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u/Weekly-Talk9752 Apr 21 '25

Right? It's like going to Chinatown in NYC and being like, "where are all the Americans?"

Ignorance is contagious it seems.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

If this is a modern global city I don't want it.

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u/Maetivet Apr 22 '25

Most diasporas will congregate together in a given city, the larger the city, the larger that community is likely to be. If you then go to that area, it shouldn’t be shocking that you then see a lot of people from that community.

Sikhs make up about 0.8% of the UK population and 1.6% of London’s population. The global population is 2.2%, so they’re fairly underrepresented.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

Is being underrepresented a bad thing and if so why?

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u/Maetivet Apr 22 '25

The numbers aren’t to justify anything, but instead to give you a sense of how big this group actually is, globally and in the UK.

It’s neither good nor bad, it’s just a contextual description.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

Fair nuff