http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6420000/newsid_6426300/6426397.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm
"Now, all of us take a deep breath, prepare to rethink our ideas about our ancestry. We're familiar of course with the idea that the English are descended from Anglo-Saxons, while most of the people in the rest of the British isles derived from Celtic ancestors, but now a medical geneticist is arguing that we can forget those Celtic ties. Deep down, we've far more in common with the Basques! Dr Steven Oppenheimer from Oxford University has written "The Origins of the British: a genetic detective story". So our ancestors were Basques not Celts, is that it in a nutshell? Yes."
Dr Oppenheimer then goes on to explain the genetic link between the Basque country and the British Isles. Turns out that two thirds of the native population of the British Isles are descended from that region straddling the Spanish-French border, and most of the other third are are descended from the first farmers to settle in these island between six and four thousand years ago. Who cares? Obviously not the BBC. Despite, or perhaps because, of the implications this has for the debate about immigration, there is no text story on the BBC covering this subject. If it turns out that rather than being in Britain for only one thousand five hundred years, two-thirds of the people in Britain have been here for eight to ten thousand years, and most of the rest for four-to-six thousand years, the great PC argument that 'we are all immigrants' here in Britain starts to look like the most desperate of garbage.
Prominence given to this story by the BBC? On the same page as this audio story, it has links to two other stories: 'Rare twin giraffes born in zoo' and a story about a video games conference in San Francisco. If the conclusions of Dr Oppenheimer were that actually most British people had arrived in Britain since 1600, I'm guessing there would have been a big story on the front page of the Beeb website, certainly a text story in the Nature/Science bit. This disgusting PC manipulation of inconvenient truths is very close to social engineering.
The idea that immigrants need to be molly-coddled by the media with fake stories about how we are all recent immigrants so they won't feel like such intruders is based on garbage reasoning. Immigrants ALWAYS feel like intruders into an alien place full of people unlike themselves- that is the lot of the migrant. I've done it and I know exactly what it feels like. But these PC idiocies do nothing to change the raw facts: over time, immigrants meld more or less successfully into the general population. Humans have been doing this for all recorded history and presumably long before. Its hard and stressful but after a few generations it happens. To try to sugar the pill by lying to immigrants is both stupid and unnecessary. Most immigrants have a much more hard-nosed view of moving to a new and alien land. Most take it for granted that life will be difficult until they learn the language, learn the culture and find a way to successfully live in this new situation.
That has not stopped our PC legions from developing The Utterly Moronic way of 'helping' people to migrate to Britain. This includes: giving migrants all their many government hand-outs IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, thereby precluding the necessity of learning English. Telling them over and over again that there is no reason to learn or adapt to British culture, they can keep their own GUARANTEEING conflict with British people who may not like Pakistani culturally-acceptable murder of relatives for instance, or African genital mutilation of women. And constantly excoriating the native population in print and on TV and on the radio about their terrible terrible racism, the end result of which is that new immigrants automatically assume that the British ARE racist (beyond the human norm).
Racism (a very poor replacement for the term in-group exclusivity) is endemic to humans. It is everywhere and in all people. Its also not a problem. Discrimination, the day-to-day punishment of people for being outsiders, is a problem. Dhimmitude is a perfect example of discrimination enacted into law. Britain has done a very effective job of suppressing discrimination, as have many countries in western Europe and North America. They have done this through legislation. In-group exclusivity, however is permanent and not open to legislative pressure. Neither should it be. You only have to look at individuals like Michael Portillo and Sgt Beharry to understand that In-group exclusivity very quickly allows the migrant to be in the group if they are successful at adapting to the groups norms and folkways. That should be the goal- not the formation of dozens of disgruntled, badly-adapted, politicised minorities all agitating for a better deal from the racist natives. I already hear a lot of chatter to this affect from New Labour, who have gone down that road and have reaped its awful harvest. Not so much from New Conservatives though. Will we spend another ten years while DaveC learns the same things?
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