British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Aug 17th 2015, 1:50 am
#31
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Gone are the days when Brits could fill in a few boxes on a piece of paper ... then jump to a new country and open up a tea room! 
Aug 17th 2015, 12:40 pm
#32
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Mind you, most Canucks seem to have no idea of the hoops a potential immigrant has to jump through either.
Plenty of times, I've heard folk bang on about, "these frikken' immigrants, eh?" in the same tone I recall my old man talking about the 'Pakis' way back in the late 60s/early 70s in the English Midlands. Clearly, they are confusing the non-English speaking 'refugee/asylee' type immigrant with the more usually industrious type who intends to make the True North his home.
Plenty of times, I've heard folk bang on about, "these frikken' immigrants, eh?" in the same tone I recall my old man talking about the 'Pakis' way back in the late 60s/early 70s in the English Midlands. Clearly, they are confusing the non-English speaking 'refugee/asylee' type immigrant with the more usually industrious type who intends to make the True North his home.
Aug 17th 2015, 3:58 pm
#34
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Mind you, most Canucks seem to have no idea of the hoops a potential immigrant has to jump through either.
Plenty of times, I've heard folk bang on about, "these frikken' immigrants, eh?" in the same tone I recall my old man talking about the 'Pakis' way back in the late 60s/early 70s in the English Midlands. Clearly, they are confusing the non-English speaking 'refugee/asylee' type immigrant with the more usually industrious type who intends to make the True North his home.
Plenty of times, I've heard folk bang on about, "these frikken' immigrants, eh?" in the same tone I recall my old man talking about the 'Pakis' way back in the late 60s/early 70s in the English Midlands. Clearly, they are confusing the non-English speaking 'refugee/asylee' type immigrant with the more usually industrious type who intends to make the True North his home.
Aug 18th 2015, 7:49 am
#36
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Why on earth would you think they should? I only have an idea of the hoops potential immigrants to the UK go through because of forums like BE. If I weren't on BE et al I'd be totally ignorant of the procedures they go through.
Aug 18th 2015, 2:33 pm
#37
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Mind you, most Canucks seem to have no idea of the hoops a potential immigrant has to jump through either.
Plenty of times, I've heard folk bang on about, "these frikken' immigrants, eh?" in the same tone I recall my old man talking about the 'Pakis' way back in the late 60s/early 70s in the English Midlands. Clearly, they are confusing the non-English speaking 'refugee/asylee' type immigrant with the more usually industrious type who intends to make the True North his home.
Plenty of times, I've heard folk bang on about, "these frikken' immigrants, eh?" in the same tone I recall my old man talking about the 'Pakis' way back in the late 60s/early 70s in the English Midlands. Clearly, they are confusing the non-English speaking 'refugee/asylee' type immigrant with the more usually industrious type who intends to make the True North his home.
In Toronto where half the city wasn't born in Canada and most of the other half grew up within a 2 to 4 hour radius people simply don't seem to discuss immigration or pass comment.
That might change as you venture out but my general feel is that Toronto is highly liberal which I think will be a good thing with the upcoming election as the Conservatives won't get a look in.
Aug 18th 2015, 2:46 pm
#38
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Interesting how the popular culture lags behind the realities. There was a time when Britain would just waltz in to a country with an army if Brits wanted to go; Send the gunboats in if there were later objections. Then the colonies went and got all independent and had their own rules. Some have not caught up yet.
Aug 19th 2015, 12:38 am
#39
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
Aug 19th 2015, 12:50 am
#41
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
I have to admit that I've met a few Brits here and thought quietly to myself "how the hell did you get in?". I'm sure there's always a perfectly reasonable explanation and it's just a personal prejudice against people less intelligent, educated and cultured as myself.
Aug 19th 2015, 1:13 am
#43
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
So I suppose I must be better than him?
Aug 19th 2015, 1:37 am
#44
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Re: British, Arrogant? Qui moi?
I think we could all improve our approach, sensitivity, understanding and up our levels of professionalism and social graces ... kinda like this fella!!
"Quite".
"Quite".
