But its not that simple. He comes here as a kid, doesn't get citizenship, behaves most of his life, makes a mistake and then gets booted back to an alien country.

I guess I am not surprised at the lack of compassion on here at times, but it's all rather sad nonetheless.

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Not sure how two random comments from idiots whilst living in London constitutes as a huge problem.

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It's not a huge problem. The nuts an bolts of this thread is 'I came here to earn money and a couple of people have mocked me'.
Why people wish to defend the apparent 'victim' baffles me but each to their own.

From what I have seen living in West Croydon the past 5 years, racism between ethnic groups is as rife if not more so- especially between African and Carribean people.

I still firmly believe the UK is one of the most tolerant countries in the world.

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Government has a responsibility to the individual as much as to the majority arguably more so, given the capacity of the majority to utilise democratic mandates to favour them (ie if your a white upper to middle class person, you don't need protective legislation as you dominate the democratic process).

The failure of governments to protect minority groups and individuals that fall 'in the cracks' stems from the desire to appeal to their electorate and relection, rather than to actually serve the interests of each and every citizen and person of the UK.

As such it generates prejudical legislation, where in someone like in Reborn's example, faces extraordinary punishment beyond that of the offence committed, which would be considered unacceptable if he had the right 'qualification' (citizenship, which arguably anyone who's spent 8 years as a child in the UK should have by default).

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Whilst its true that racism between different ethnic groups is also a problem it doesn't in anyway validate discrimination. Having experienced the prejudice between Indians and pakistani's first hand in the UK, it was quite eye opening.

Of course prejudice against the main ethnic group isn't an experience of the majority of the white british population, where as everyone I know from a non-white background has experienced racial threats and prejudice.

Indeed the only time I received any kind of 'racism' was when I was going out with an Indian girl (and I got that stick from both whites and Indian males).

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