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9-5-2009 2:34 PM
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Antara says:
Kevin Myers
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9-5-2009 2:36 PM
Antara
Foreigners in Britain are not equally spread. They concentrate in
urban areas, where the proportions of foreign to native are often
either parity, or in the majority. How does one inculcate a sense of
Englishness amongst schoolchildren in entire cities where the majority
of their mothers are foreign?
But even that is to presume that
all native-born mothers are culturally English (the immigration crisis
being more acute in England than in Scotland or Wales).
And this is simply not so. Many young English-born mothers have been
raised in alien cantonments, in which they might well speak a regional
English (or a Caribbean/Asian patois thereof), but they are as much part of E...
9-5-2009 2:43 PM
Antara
IT is an indisputable fact that immigration is good for a society.
Ireland is far better off as an immigrant-receiver than as a
people-supplier.
But we have a duty both to ourselves and to
future generations to create an immigration policy that matches our
national requirements. Even the compromise of being in the EU does not,
of itself, make us vulnerable to the manifold failings of the only
state with which we share a land border, the UK.
With enough political will, we could have created a land border at Newry or, preferably, an insular one at Larne.
Instead,
our weak and abject compromises with the two irreconcilable tribal
extremes of t...
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