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Voluntary Ghettoization


Immigrant neighbourhoods are a part of most world cities. Are these neighbourhood exclusionary or a method of self-protection or?
 

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Login to find out (September 9, 2005 at 9:16pm)
hey! if i'm the king. and you're the queenn....... !!! :D P:
 
Login to find out (September 9, 2005 at 9:15pm)
not modest?
cuts like a knife.

and this from someone who think's i'm as good as jailbound.

ah, where have i gone wrong?!
 
Login to find out (September 9, 2005 at 4:42pm)
i wish i had will power. great things could have happened in my life would i have had it );

come on though, is not like you to be bashful or modest. bring on the xenophobic platoshadow. you know you are king in this village and we won't rat on you
 
Login to find out (September 9, 2005 at 4:15pm)
i want to get into this, but i can't think of a way for expressing myself without sounding like a fascist, a social darwinist, a fundamentalist, a racial Supremecist, or a racist xenophobe. or some mixture of the bunch...

so emm...


i'll just tell you all that i did some cardio today,
i hate cardio, but i made myself do it, now that it's done, i'm glad i did it.

but i don't want to do it again tomorrow.

but ithink i my force myself.
 
Login to find out (September 9, 2005 at 4:05pm)
Baba: Did you ever see the movie "My Son the Fanatic" released a few years ago?...talks bout the same issue.
 
Login to find out (September 9, 2005 at 3:24pm)
What the F is going on in Londonistan!

I just read an article and it is quite sad. Second generation kids are more fundamentalist than their parents. The same parents are ashamed of their kids fundamentalism.

What happened to normal race relation problems of, "My Beautiful Launderette", fame?
 
Login to find out (August 30, 2005 at 10:10pm)
true re:multiculturism shazia....we've all got are positives n negatives...and maybe there's a thing or two we can learn from the "other"

CF: cummon now, tell us how u really feel..lol
 
Login to find out (August 30, 2005 at 6:58pm)
I hate promiscuous people!
 
Login to find out (August 30, 2005 at 4:36pm)
promoting multiculturalism can only go so far. promotion is no good if the society on the other end of it think that it will do them more harm than good. which is sort of the case at the moment. i think a lot of people of our parents generation and even our own are wondering how the heck they have brought up their kids and how they are going to ensure that their values live on...

and when the other society is seen as amoral and promiscuous etc - i dunno.

there is a lack of tolerance and acceptance on both sides
 
Login to find out (August 29, 2005 at 4:09pm)
LOL...was trying to figure out wat this #39 thing was...some secret code or something...i get it now...
 
Login to find out (August 29, 2005 at 4:04pm)
I don't think there is a solution...it just is...a "natural" tendency i guess...maybe promoting multiculturism can counter the effect...but not by much i don't think.
 
Login to find out (August 29, 2005 at 3:39pm)
i dont know what the solution is :(
 
Login to find out (August 29, 2005 at 3:39pm)
it starts of as self-protection because it is more familiar and people feel safer. but then it becomes more of a ghetto and then it becomes more and more a ghetto until it is exclusive. or perceived as such.

i think 'white flight' exacerbates it too - in the uk when brown people first started coming over, white people didnt like to live next door to brown people so moved out, brown people moved in etc etc. the problem is that here, unfortunately these neighbourhoods tend to be in inner city areas and tend to be associated with higher unemployment, a worse standard or education and more poverty and health problems.
 
Login to find out (August 28, 2005 at 6:57pm)
Self protection. A sense of familiarity and comfort is why people from a particular ethnic background stay in the same neighborhood. Sure, everyone goes out to work, but when you come back home, you want to be able to speak in your language, talk about politics with your neighbors, run down to the shop for 'masala' etc etc.