[user104658]

Do you know what I've noticed and find really sad? Over the last couple of weeks, and especially since Thursday, there's been a noticeable difference in a lot of my immigrant customers. They're making obvious deliberate efforts to make small talk / chat about sports and events / generally making clear efforts to, for want of a better term, "be liked".

Not that this is a bad thing in itself, of course the outcome of such efforts can only be a good thing. But the REASONS for it - the obvious desperation to be accepted and liked and not glared at or whispered about (and believe me there has been plenty of that) - is very sad.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Do you know what I've noticed and find really sad? Over the last couple of weeks, and especially since Thursday, there's been a noticeable difference in a lot of my immigrant customers. They're making obvious deliberate efforts to make small talk / chat about sports and events / generally making clear efforts to, for want of a better term, "be liked".

Not that this is a bad thing in itself, of course the outcome of such efforts can only be a good thing. But the REASONS for it - the obvious desperation to be accepted and liked and not glared at or whispered about (and believe me there has been plenty of that) - is very sad.

TS its only the first week
its a temp blip.


Conservatives
Run The UK


Farage is not part of the Cabinet.


Fecking Get that old Tory of the BBC Breakfast
he is stupid keeps saying they need Farage



FARAGE is UKIP
another Party

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by arista

TS its only the first week
its a temp blip.


Conservatives
Run The UK


Farage is not part of the Cabinet.


Fecking Get that old Tory of the BBC Breakfast
he is stupid keeps saying they need Farage



FARAGE is UKIP
another Party

You make it sound like a good thing that the Tories run the UK?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Do you know what I've noticed and find really sad? Over the last couple of weeks, and especially since Thursday, there's been a noticeable difference in a lot of my immigrant customers. They're making obvious deliberate efforts to make small talk / chat about sports and events / generally making clear efforts to, for want of a better term, "be liked".

Not that this is a bad thing in itself, of course the outcome of such efforts can only be a good thing. But the REASONS for it - the obvious desperation to be accepted and liked and not glared at or whispered about (and believe me there has been plenty of that) - is very sad.

It would be the same for any british people in their country if the roles were reversed I am sure

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Do you know what I've noticed and find really sad? Over the last couple of weeks, and especially since Thursday, there's been a noticeable difference in a lot of my immigrant customers. They're making obvious deliberate efforts to make small talk / chat about sports and events / generally making clear efforts to, for want of a better term, "be liked".

Not that this is a bad thing in itself, of course the outcome of such efforts can only be a good thing. But the REASONS for it - the obvious desperation to be accepted and liked and not glared at or whispered about (and believe me there has been plenty of that) - is very sad.

This is not really going to be a popular post, but I king of think they should always have been making some kind of effort to integrate rather than isolating themselves. I feel like some of the...unsavoury..views a lot of British people have come from fear of the unknown. People ignoring you when you walk past them, blanking you if you attempt to talk..etc.

Of course a lot of immigrants do make an effort to 'fit in' but a lot also don't bother, the guys who own the shop up the road from me speak perfect English, but they often talk in their own language when there are English in the shop, which tbh I find quite ignorant :/

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Do you know what I've noticed and find really sad? Over the last couple of weeks, and especially since Thursday, there's been a noticeable difference in a lot of my immigrant customers. They're making obvious deliberate efforts to make small talk / chat about sports and events / generally making clear efforts to, for want of a better term, "be liked".

Not that this is a bad thing in itself, of course the outcome of such efforts can only be a good thing. But the REASONS for it - the obvious desperation to be accepted and liked and not glared at or whispered about (and believe me there has been plenty of that) - is very sad.

I don’t know about you but because racism and bigotry is at the forefront at the moment, I make a special effort with foreign shop assistants to be extra pleasant. Before they were just shop assistants like anyone else but because I’m now aware of how they are possibly feeling, it makes me want interact with them more. I like to think they are being extra nice because they are feeling accepted by all us none bigot/racists and not because they are attempting to be more accepted.