O/T Coronavirus Thread (4)

[wendun]

By the way we as a country are in denial. We will be killed in large numbers by the behaviour of certain demographics and certain ethnic groups. Just listened to WATO on Radio 4. A very nice Black lady was interviewed and said she dreaded going into the office in central London from her home in Brixton because large numbers of people on crowded buses refused to wear masks. Up here the much maligned middle class, middle aged, (dare one say, white) residents of our villages adhere 100% to the mandatory requirement and adherence in supermarkets is near universal. We don't have ethnic minorities but the only people ignoring social distancing are raging's beloved 18-24 mob of littering yobs.

[wendun]

I thought the local councillor said it was the Bangladeshi origin community, is that classed as South Asia?

I honestly don't know, Grist. South Asia has always seemed an odd concept but that was most definitely the phrase used on Today this morning. I would not quibble with substituting Bangladeshi though.

[millersrus]

I’d have thought it’s South Asia, along with India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

[wendun]

I’d have thought it’s South Asia, along with India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Thank you. I think you must be right.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I see that Kirklees council has published corona advice in numerous languages including Urdu, Farsi and Arabic because they are concerned that the message isn’t getting through to some communities where a significant number don’t speak or understand English

Which is fair enough, but it got me thinking about what these people actually do that is of benefit to society as a whole?

Can’t be easy finding work.

[millersrus]

Looks like Afghanistan Nepal Bhutan and the Maldives could be in the list also

[wendun]

I see that Kirklees council has published corona advice in numerous languages including Urdu, Farsi and Arabic because they are concerned that the message isn’t getting through to some communities where a significant number don’t speak or understand English

Which is fair enough, but it got me thinking about what these people actually do that is of benefit to society as a whole?

Can’t be easy finding work.

My dear Grist, I am frequently reported to various authorities for asking just how the f*ck an island in the North Sea ended up with huge populations from South Asia, Africa and the Carribean, many of whom can't be rrsed to learn the language. I am however repeatedly told this is a GOOD THING which I suppose is proven by events in Leicester, Rotherham, Rochdale and Bristol to name but a few. Then again if Germanic Vandals can set up a kingdom in North Africa I don't see why South Asians shouldn't set up theirs in a few northern towns.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Looks like Afghanistan Nepal Bhutan and the Maldives could be in the list also

Yes, Afghanistan is described as on the border of central and South Asia so I suppose Pakistan and Bangladesh being further south must be South Asia

[WanChaiMiller]

I see that Kirklees council has published corona advice in numerous languages including Urdu, Farsi and Arabic because they are concerned that the message isn’t getting through to some communities where a significant number don’t speak or understand English

Which is fair enough, but it got me thinking about what these people actually do that is of benefit to society as a whole?

Can’t be easy finding work.

Im guessing it was the call for workers from the Empire to help rebuild Britain in the post war years.

I understand that Enoch Powell was one of the MPs who went out to the West Indies on a recruitment drive. Funny old World.

But signs in different languages is not unusual in the modern World. I see road and public transport signs in both Mandarin and English in darkest industrial China.

[wendun]

Im guessing it was the call for workers from the Empire to help rebuild Britain in the post war years.

I understand that Enoch Powell was one of the MPs who went out to the West Indies on a recruitment drive. Funny old World.

But signs in different languages is not unusual in the modern World. I see road and public transport signs in both Mandarin and English in darkest industrial China.

Yes, Wan, that is the usual fairy tale spun. It is sadly bollox. Several million men were demobilising to the point where women who had filled many ***** roles were forced out of the workplace back into the home.
What post-war Britain lacked was capital NOT labour. The heroic myth of the Windrush sailing to our aid to staff TFL is comical. And what economic need did we have in the sixties, seventies and eighties for huge numbers of unskilled, illiterate villagers from South Asia whose most visible contribution to our society is purple and orange paint schemes and ubiquitous mosques?