[Angus]

Originally Posted by fruit_cake

I don't think that fat people are to blame for being abused. It seems to me that the people who abuse them are to blame.

Fat people might be able to slim down but ugly people are always ugly and Stupid people are always stupid. I don't understand why do they not deserve special protection, yet those of non-white race do deserve it?? It seems like a double standard to me

The English are the ones who like to seperate people on grounds of race. It seems to me that the true racists are the English. You don't have to tick a form to say which race you belong to just to get a job in Spain. The Spanish might make one or two stupid jokes like with that racing driver but the entire English nation is fundamentally racist. Its a nation that likes to tell others what to do but forgets that it's flies are undone while it does it.

Nobody gets special privelidges in Spain just because their skin is the right colour like they do in England. So I don't agree with what you say!!! its your opinion and this is mine.

One flaw in your argument is to suggest that the "true racists are English". If that were the case, why would the English have permitted such levels of immigration into this country over the past half century? It is unparalleled with the rest of Europe - countries such as France, Germany, Spain,Italy etc, have far more draconian restrictions and treatments of immigrants. There may well be racist English people, but I have encountered very many racist people from different ethnicities. It isn't a one way street by any means. You seem to be guilty of the same accusation levelled at the English - ie tarring every English person with the same racist brush.

Furthermore, I also totally abhor those forms and questionnaires where you have to state your ethnicity, but far from being racist they are there to promote fairness in the distribution of resources, ie to ensure that the white English do not hog them!

As regards Spain, I have family living in Almeria who are often subjected to racist jibes and resentment, so please don't even bother pretending Spain is oh so liberal and welcoming to immigrants.