56.7% of birth in London to foreign mums

[Dragonfall 10]

The issue here is, what type of cultural change this statistic brings - aside of colour/race etc. If it indicates a rise in the birth of children to closed communities, immigrant ghettos, communities with separatist cultures, then overall, British culture will inevitably change. It's for the individual to decide whether this is a positive or negative thing.

[MrSmith 10]

I don't remember reading about many fossilised pre-homo sapiens being discovered in England, ergo, we must have come from somewhere else.

 

Only the person that comes here is an immigrant, their descendants aren’t immigrants.

[eastbank 10]

Tell that to the thousands of foreign students who come here every year to study and return to their native countries at the end of their courses.

 

and think of all the student moves that we would miss out on...and the loss of all those lovely beer vouchers...

[choogling 14]

Yet they all gave birth to English children.

Bernard manning once told a one liner about a stable a dog and a horse.

[MrSmith 10]

Prince Philip?

 

An immigrant doesn't have to settle somewhere permanently. There's an international agreement whereby someone is classed as a migrant if they settle somewhere for more than a year.

 

I just checked several other dictionaries and they all say the same.

 

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country:

 

migrant

a person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions.

[MrSmith 10]

Tell that to the thousands of foreign students who come here every year to study and return to their native countries at the end of their courses.

 

They aren’t immigrants.

[choogling 14]

I have no idea why the number of mothers born outside the UK is even something worthy of reference unless you have a problem with the 'outrageously high' proportion, as it appears that the DM have.

 

The implication that mothers born outside the UK are somehow something less than desirable is very clear, and very unpleasant.

It is also a view supported by many

[Halibut 12]

It is also a view supported by many

 

Do you believe that mothers born outside the UK are somehow less desirable than UK born ones?

 

If so, why?

[medusa 16]

Do you believe that mothers born outside the UK are somehow less desirable than UK born ones?

 

If so, why?

 

And, once you've explained that can you then explain whether the ones that you find undesirable are brown skinned or whether it's everybody who has an accent?

[Convict Edd 10]

Do you believe that mothers born outside the UK are somehow less desirable than UK born ones?

 

If so, why?

 

And, once you've explained that can you then explain whether the ones that you find undesirable are brown skinned or whether it's everybody who has an accent?

 

Putting words in another posters mouth, much?

[Halibut 12]

Putting words in another posters mouth, much?

 

No, asking you what your opinion is - you appear to support the view that foreign born mothers are undesirable. Do you?

 

If so, why? If not why not?

 

It's not rocket science.

[Convict Edd 10]

No, asking you what your opinion is - you appear to support the view that foreign born mothers are undesirable. Do you?

 

If so, why? If not why not?

 

It's not rocket science.

 

:hihi::hihi:

 

I love it when you post stuff.