White haired old man in Charity Shop: "This has become an indigenous country. They're coming in from everywhere. We're becoming all mixed up. And they bring diseases. Hepatitis B. Ominous times...."
One wonders how many people making such comments know anything at all about their own ancestral make-up? It's all based on that grand old British assumption that everyone else is a foreigner.
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Date: 2013-11-26 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-26 03:36 pm (UTC)One wonders how many people making such comments know anything at all about their own ancestral make-up?
It's all based on that grand old British assumption that everyone else is a foreigner.
Othering........I know it so well.