Young People ‘Think Immigrants Are a Threat to National Identity and Jobs’
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Daily Mail (London), September 27, 2008
Young people think a steady stream of immigrants is eroding Britain’s national identity and threatening jobs, a survey said today.
Almost two-thirds (60%) of the young people surveyed in the poll by the British Council thought the presence of foreign immigrants was “diluting” their sense of national identity.
A quarter said immigrants posed a threat to British workers’ jobs and 12% said they thought the influx of people from abroad was a risk to security and public order.
Two thousand people aged between 18 and 35 were asked about their attitude towards immigration and their sense of national identity.
The survey comes as shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve warned that multiculturalism in the UK has left a “terrible” legacy, creating a vacuum that has been filled by extremists.
In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Grieve said: “We’ve actually done something terrible to ourselves in Britain. In the name of trying to prepare people for some new multicultural society we’ve encouraged people, particularly the sort of long-term inhabitants, to say ‘well your cultural background isn’t really very important’.”
He told the newspaper that long-term inhabitants have been left fearful, while second- and third-generation immigrants have felt alienated and unsure what British values stand for.
Both the survey and Grieve’s comments come on the eve of the Conservative Party conference.
The British Council said the results of this week’s survey were “worrying”.
“This study throws up some interesting reflections, and also some rather worrying results,” said Paul Docherty, the director of the British Council in Italy.
“Although there are many areas where British and Italian young people have a positive outlook, it is clear that there are stark challenges facing our societies in staying in touch with our younger generation and addressing some of their fears.”
The survey was split between young people in Italy and the UK and was commissioned by the British Council ahead of its annual Anglo-Italian conference to discuss how political establishments can stay in touch with young people’s fears and ambitions.
In spite of greater European integration since the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992, just 7% of Britons surveyed said they felt like a European citizen, while 40% considered themselves to be British.
But, while some young people said they felt detached from Europe, over half said they thought the EU helped defend citizen’s rights, and 38% said it had a positive influence over the economy.
“The study was commissioned to inform debate at the Anglo-Italian conference held every year, but I am sure that the results will provide a useful point of reference for a number of other programmes in Europe and beyond,” Mr Docherty said.
(Posted on September 29, 2008)
Comments
Only 12% of British kids have any idea what is really going on. Yet, I bet the popular reaction to this is to find a way to convince those 12% that diversity benefits a community. In fact, I bet that’s what this is all about in the first place. The BNP have their work cut out for them.
Posted by at 6:38 PM on September 29
Why is it that the young people can see the writing on the wall, and the older ones can’t? The older ones do see it, they just don’t care. Liberals have tried to destroy the free world. Hopefully the young will overtake the old and set things right. There will be a heavy price to pay to set things right in the western world. I really hope they will keep a record of whom the enemy was. Retribution can be a nasty pill to swallow for the guilty.
Posted by Roller at 7:14 PM on September 29
Britain is the prototype society for multiculturalism along with possibly France. It is the first country that really began going down, back in the 1960’s. The ‘British Invasion’ in pop and rock music is now history, and with it so are the British Isles. Britain had become a decadent and now a divided society, with non-whites now beginning to run amok in their society. The Brits have virtually no cohesiveness as a people or unity in either their race or their society right now in general. Many are leaving and coming to the U.S. It is Britain that will probably go down first along with France. I believe these are the two countries to watch in the near future for strife. So really there is much to learn from Great Britain as a country simply because they are ahead of where we are right now. They are a few years closer to the police state planned for us. Look at Britain and you’ll see the U.S.A. about 10 years down the road.
Posted by Awakened at 8:11 PM on September 29
“Shadow home secretary: “We’ve actually done something terrible to ourselves in Britain.”
They will be realizing that more and more with each passing month, more so now that the financial is impacting them as well as the US.
And the US will be saying the same thing just as well, as we go further down the road to war, but the blacks will be all over the media declaring that it is white racists who are bringing things to a head, lying in the usual unintelligent, unconvincing way.
Posted by ice at 8:32 PM on September 29
““Although there are many areas where British and Italian young people have a positive outlook, it is clear that there are stark challenges facing our societies in staying in touch with our younger generation and addressing some of their fears.””
Yes, it is worrying to the multicult marxists when people, particularly the young, are waking up to the reality and not buying what they’re selling.
Posted by at 8:54 PM on September 29
The British Council said the results of this week’s survey were “worrying”.
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I guess this means a whole new set of laws and threats to get everyone’s minds right on the subject of “multiculturalism.
Posted by RHG at 9:39 PM on September 29
As in the fable of The Emperor’s New Clothes, it was a child that saw the absurd.
I hope there are enough young people out there who can see that their freedoms are being eroded and for what? An invasion that doesn’t have to happen? They have to see their freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of association restricted to accommodate foreign people who want to impose their foreign beliefs.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 9:31 AM on September 30
It’s clear that the young people in Britain weren’t informed of their government’s program of cultural suicide.
Posted by Gary at 12:56 PM on September 30
As we’ve seen in other articles here on AR, once life becomes financially and culturally intolerable, the native white population will largely stop reproducing, and the government will wonder where all the little future taxpayers went.
Posted by at 2:08 PM on September 30
“We’ve actually done something terrible to ourselves in Britain.” says a British politican.
No, mate, YOU’VE done it to US - the British people.
We had no say in it!
Support the British National Party - its the only party that cares for the British people.
Posted by GeoffM at 3:50 AM on October 1
I spent five days in London in 1973 while stationed in Germany and loved every minute of it. The historic sites, the bustling streets, the glamorous night life, the friendly British people. I’ve been telling myself and others for decades I will return.
Alas, more recently, friends have been returning from London and telling me, except for the historic sights, I wouldn’t recognize the city today. The streets of London can be downright dangerous at night. The complexion of the people has darkened, as has their former friendly demeanor. The smiles of the past have been replaced by sullen stares. Maybe I’ll find another European capital to visit.
Posted by Francis at 11:41 AM on October 2