Originally Posted by eurotramp

Lets see...if you would live in a country were women cover them self from head to toe...would you do it your self..or would you stick to your western ways of dressing?

Originally Posted by Sallyanne

Thanks, interesting.

I remember when I first went to university, a local man came up to my friend and I in the pub and started chatting, saying, "Are you nurses or students?" "How did you know?" "You're looking around". We hadn't thought about it before but the local women kept their gaze lowered.

Originally Posted by eurotramp

Lets see...if you would live in a country were women cover them self from head to toe...would you do it your self..or would you stick to your western ways of dressing?

Originally Posted by Kate2112

Where did you go to Uni ?

Originally Posted by Sallyanne

Didn't want to offend anyone...Leeds

Originally Posted by Heading home

I agree with you that all education should be secular. However, rather than banning religious education from schools, I think the basics beliefs behind ALL the major religions should be taught. Like it or not, religion is a major part of many people's lives throughout the world and I think it is useful to have some understanding of what these beliefs are.

Originally Posted by Sallyanne

I think of myself as a Labour supporter, but to my mind they took a wrong turn by encouraging the growth of religious schools. State schools could be made purely secular, as here in the US, if you want to set up a religious school it should get no government funding and its curriculum should come under scrutiny. Hearing that a large proportion of students in British universities now reject the theory of evolution appals me.

We have allowed people to come to Britain without any requirement to learn the language or adapt to the native culture. The first wave of immigrants from the West Indies, Uganda and India faced a lot of racism but the desire to integrate was there. In our attempts to combat racism the balance tipped in a way which was hard to foresee.

Originally Posted by zoe13

so there is one labour supporter!!

lmao

Originally Posted by Kate2112

Two

Originally Posted by zoe13

yeh and doesn't it make sense that both of you live outside the uk.... funny that

Originally Posted by Sallyanne

We're champagne socialists - along with Elvira

Originally Posted by Mercedes

whiteor you lily folk, (who says I haven't got


why don't you lot read what I've said and not what you think I said. Add another nationality into the scum frame and everyone gets on their own high horses. If they had been IRA I would have said Irish scum, and having Irish in my family, probably no one would have commented.

I have an Australian and British passport and so do many of here. Even though they lived in Australia for years and even those who live there, how many of them think of themselves as Australian, many still think of themselves still as British. Correct? So lets say one of us blew up an Australian plane full of whoever, do you think they would call us Australian scum or British Scum? Holding a passport does not make us that Nationality of that country, its what we think we are that counts. Many on here have slagged off the Australians, Canadians, Americans, yet they are themselves living in that country, and yet they are rude and insultive about the people of that country. You only have to read these boards to see it.<<snip>>