Saturday, January 04, 2014

Immigration and racism

I have neighbours. Two of them are Romanians. One of them told me a story today with Romanians and Bulgarians now being part of EU or something, and as per this year being eligible to work anywhere they want. Apparently this became a big story in the UK, what with a minister standing at the airport on the 1st of January awaiting hordes of Eastern Europeans. And of course with the press ready with their cameras.

Two came. And both of them had jobs in the UK already. I dunno, them being Romanians I took the story with a grain of salt, but then read the news.

I think the fear of the foreign is more of a threat than actually being a foreigner. Like myself.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ha ha. Sadly its probably more true that the motto of that 'news' site suggests

Witchbitch said...

Probably shouldn't believe everything we read in the news :).