From the UK: Anyone who now thinks Britain is too multicultural? (in light of the Olympics)

[pampango]

The anti-immigration squad must have found Golden Saturday a bit awkward

Jesus! More multicultural crap! More bleedin' foreigners winning our medals! Even cheering with indecent enthusiasm for Team GB! Who the hell do they think they are? And what the hell happened to this great nation? Tory MP Aidan Burley, an immigrant from New Zealand, dissed Danny Boyle's inclusive opening ceremony in a tweet. By now he must be spitting his (probably whitened) teeth. So too the risible journos who've been whinging about "plastic Brits" in the team, an obnoxious term invented for competitors not born in the UK. ...today intolerant right-wingers question the motives of non-indigenous sportspeople and are furious they have been chosen to represent the UK.

Golden Saturday must have been a bit awkward for this awkward squad. Mixed feelings must have curdled the patriotic juices when Mo Farah, born in Somalia, won the 10,000 metres, hugged his daughter and pregnant light-skinned wife. And when he pronounced himself the proudest of flag wavers. Or when Jessica Ennis, the daughter of a black father and a white mother, wept as she received her gold while 80,000 fans cheered and belted out the National Anthem. I wonder how the formidable anti-immigration prophets and campaigners react when medals are won by super-fit migrants and children of migrants?

David Cameron and others are ever-ready to chastise "non-integrated ethnic minority communities". Nothing wrong with that per se because we do have some ghettoisation, and that is a concern. But in the name of fair play it would be good to hear these leaders just sometimes ask white Britons to treat us genuinely as their compatriots.

Day after day, we are woken by the Today programme telling us how bad migration is, how bad we migrants are, as do most of the papers, fiendish trolls, the far right and some nicely spoken, respectable citizens too. You'd think we are all terrorists, sex offenders, killers of daughters, illegal entrants, alien criminals, and procreators of too many more of the above. The abuse heaped upon me for being an Asian Muslim incomer with attitude would kill and bury me if I let it. We fight back because we are worth it and so is the state we live in. That poetic paradox may explain why immigrants don't give up.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-anyone-who-now-thinks-britain-is-too-multicultural-8008818.html

The Olympic competition between all races, nationalities and ethnic groups must drive right wingers crazy. There are no guarantees that the "good guys" will win. It must be worse for them when people who are "not really British" represent the UK either as athletes or fans. That applies to many countries where some people (particularly on the right) look at immigrants as less than genuine citizens.

[Rabid_Rabbit]

1. I have found it to be the opposite

There is a local British restaurant that I frequent (mostly during soccer season). One guy asked something along the lines of 'Why can't all immigrants be like this, hard working and not on assistance'

[pampango]

2. That guy's sentiment plays right into the author's point about what immigrants hear everyday.

"Day after day, we are woken by the Today programme telling us how bad migration is, how bad we migrants are, as do most of the papers, fiendish trolls, the far right and some nicely spoken, respectable citizens too. You'd think we are all terrorists, sex offenders, killers of daughters, illegal entrants, alien criminals, and procreators of too many more of the above. The abuse heaped upon me for being an Asian Muslim incomer with attitude would kill and bury me if I let it. We fight back because we are worth it and so is the state we live in. That poetic paradox may explain why immigrants don't give up."

'Why can't all immigrants be like this, hard working and not on assistance' - sounds like the guy in the restaurant thinks that most immigrants are lazy and on the dole. That's the kind of negative attitude towards immigrants that the author was writing about. Kind of an updated version of the old conservative belief that most African Americans were lazy and on welfare.

I wonder if this guy (if not him then others who express similar sentiments) would look at 'hard working' immigrants (if he recognizes the existence of such) as people who are stealing the jobs of 'real' British people. If the immigrants work they are 'job-stealers'. If they don't work they are 'lazy welfare bums'. Sounds like a good Catch 22 the right has constructed for immigrants.[/]

[Rabid_Rabbit]

3. The article

pointed out that the right wing should hate the success that immigrants are having at the olympics. My example pointed out that they are using the success of the olympians to point out the 'failures' of other immigrants.
I did not mean to imply that the right wing is supporting immigrants as a whole.