8 WHY IMMIGRATION HAS BEEN BAD FOR THE IMMIGRANTS

It’s not only the indigenous population that the foreign invasion has been bad for – the immigrants themselves, and their descendants , have suffered, and will continue to suffer, in a multitude of ways. Of course, on balance, they are in many obvious ways better off than they were in their original countries. This is particularly true of the more successful among them, who can lift themselves up to a far better way of life. But look at those on the low rungs of the ladder: the elderly Asian housewife, living on a dirty, hopeless, crime-ridden estate surrounded by some of her race and others not – how much better off is she? The young black kid threatened by gang violence and antisocial behaviour, trapped in a concrete hell – is he really much better off than he would be in his homeland?
This is something that is rarely commented upon. It is blithely assumed by many that of course they’re better off here – the Left don’t even give a thought to the fact that life might not actually be that wonderful for them in this green and unpleasant land. What of the discrimination many must face? Because discrimination is a natural human reaction and although we are a nation that tends to successfully cover our innate feelings with layers of civilised behaviour, there will always be a form of unconscious discrimination against those who are not like us. It could be that somebody is dressed differently, that the person is of a different sex, a different age, a different class. The Left were right in the ’80s when they said ‘all whites are r-cist’, though they might have also added ‘all blacks are too, and all yellows’. So it is this immigrants have to contend with. If a black person does not get offered a job for no good reason he may well holler about it and feel hard done by. He may be right – he may well have been overlooked because of his colour. He may not have been. That’s the fizzing dynamite culture of the multicultural land. Potentially you lose because of the way you are, not necessarily what you do.
It has also been pointed out that ‘minorities’ are more likely to suffer violence against them. This is true, although it is largely from people their own colour. (Statistically, a white person is about 20 times more likely to be killed by a black person than a black person by a white person.) One reason is races tend to crowd together and mix only when necessary, so an estate could soon become a hotbed of black gang violence and pull in even those not directly connected with it.
One of the tragedies of what has happened is that perfectly lovely, hard-working, well behaved immigrants suffer from the backlash against unfettered immigration. The sense of frustration felt by the average British person about the events of the last 60 years cannot be exaggerated. And people do sometimes take their frustrations out on others. (This is the sort of thing that is unsayable in Labour’s Britain but again, it is a simple fact of human existence.) How tragic that they might take it out on the wrong people, say on the local Asian shopkeeper who has provided the neighbourhood with solid service over the years. A thick white thug struggles to identify the new arrivals from the old ones, the assets from the parasites. To state again, it is all about the numbers. The more the immigrant population, the greater the difficulties. For everyone - including the new citizens.