"Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
Mar 5th 2007, 12:47 pm
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"Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
How many times have you heard these words uttered, shouted, or simple said? how many times have they been said to your kids? or how many times have you overheard them being said? in Spanish of course, or "your not in England now" "Extranjeros"
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
Mar 5th 2007, 12:51 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
How many times have you heard these words uttered, shouted, or simple said? how many times have they been said to your kids? or how many times have you overheard them being said? in Spanish of course, or "your not in England now" "Extranjeros"
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
Mar 5th 2007, 12:57 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
never heard this said to me, i take as I find and i keep myself to myself, i dont expect to much and i am trying to intergrate.
So sorry if this is your experience. I am shocked. Perhaps in time I will hear it. But there are not many expats round near me so maybe the locals dont have a reason to feel like saying it.
love
mary x
So sorry if this is your experience. I am shocked. Perhaps in time I will hear it. But there are not many expats round near me so maybe the locals dont have a reason to feel like saying it.
love
mary x
Mar 5th 2007, 12:59 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
1st day i got my new mini 110cc motobike
i was riding it on some wasteland cauing no harm what so ever to anyone.
spanish cops pull up start going mad at me, and the woman was like "if you cant speak spanish f**k off to your own county u ******"
i was shocked and scared at the same time.
i was riding it on some wasteland cauing no harm what so ever to anyone.
spanish cops pull up start going mad at me, and the woman was like "if you cant speak spanish f**k off to your own county u ******"
i was shocked and scared at the same time.
Mar 5th 2007, 1:03 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
Glad 2 b back, i'm confused.
in your other post you said you'd been there 6 years. Why did it take you so long to return to england if you were unhappy the whole time and recieved the abuse you state?
in your other post you said you'd been there 6 years. Why did it take you so long to return to england if you were unhappy the whole time and recieved the abuse you state?
Mar 5th 2007, 1:06 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
whats there to be confused about? I don't understand have you never heard of giving it a go, trying to make things work? Where did I say I was unhappy the whole time? it just to me a long time to see Spain for what it is.
Mar 5th 2007, 1:07 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
1st day i got my new mini 110cc motobike
i was riding it on some wasteland cauing no harm what so ever to anyone.
spanish cops pull up start going mad at me, and the woman was like "if you cant speak spanish f**k off to your own county u ******"
i was shocked and scared at the same time.
i was riding it on some wasteland cauing no harm what so ever to anyone.
spanish cops pull up start going mad at me, and the woman was like "if you cant speak spanish f**k off to your own county u ******"
i was shocked and scared at the same time.
That sounds about right I'm suprised they didn't slap you about.
Mar 5th 2007, 1:11 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
never heard this said to me, i take as I find and i keep myself to myself, i dont expect to much and i am trying to intergrate.
So sorry if this is your experience. I am shocked. Perhaps in time I will hear it. But there are not many expats round near me so maybe the locals dont have a reason to feel like saying it.
love
mary x
So sorry if this is your experience. I am shocked. Perhaps in time I will hear it. But there are not many expats round near me so maybe the locals dont have a reason to feel like saying it.
love
mary x
I was very similar to you tried to intergrate always tried to keep myself to myself and do everything right.
It was my daughter who got this abuse on a daily basis in school even the teachers refered to her as "the foreign child" as for me I just heard it ocasionaly, once was a bus driver who was very rude. I heard it being said many times to others or shouted behind their back unknown to them in Spanish. As for the "your not in England now" I heard that loads.
Mar 5th 2007, 1:14 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
or perhaps they had a tip off get the foreigners.
Mar 5th 2007, 1:14 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
How many times have you heard these words uttered, shouted, or simple said? how many times have they been said to your kids? or how many times have you overheard them being said? in Spanish of course, or "your not in England now" "Extranjeros"
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
Mar 5th 2007, 1:18 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
Mar 5th 2007, 1:21 pm
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Re: "Go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"
How many times have you heard these words uttered, shouted, or simple said? how many times have they been said to your kids? or how many times have you overheard them being said? in Spanish of course, or "your not in England now" "Extranjeros"
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
I've heard them loads , my daughter heard them on a daily basis even the second last day in Spain I heard a sercurity man at the airport scream them at a woman in her car. It seems to me that its considered normal, please be truthful.....I know mitzyboy won't have heard them as everyone is lovely where he is and wouldnt dare speak like that.
I just don't understand it. There are good, bad and neutral situations in ALL countries of the world. I don't think there is ONE ideallic place anywhere in the world that has no bad or grey areas.
One of the reasons I married my husband was because he was proud to be English and very proud of his country and he took a great deal of pride showing the UK off to me. I thought (and still think) it's a beautiful country and it suprised me because in Greece, all the English people I met just kept slagging the UK off!
Anyway, I lived and worked in the UK and the only thing that I didn't like (and my husband agrees) is the weather and the cost of living which is quite high.
There are alot of things that aren't ideallic about Spain. Employment being one of the major issues. A lovely place to come and live if you are receiving a pension from the UK and have some extra savings, but for young families it is bloody difficult. The cost of living is lower than the UK, but so are the wages.
Regarding the "go back to you're own country bloody foreigners"....how often is this phrase used in the UK regarding immigrants? I think it is a phrase that is used worldwide.
So far, I have not had any such experience, however, I am not saying that it doesn't happen.
My point is that there are positive, negative and GREY areas in all countries. You have two choices, either deal with it or move on.