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Sorry for the long post but just sharing...
I lived in slough for a short period of my childhood. I and my two brothers where three of five white British kids in the school of over 1000 pupils.
I loved the foods and celebrations that the school promoted for the Sikh Muslim and other religions, even Christianity though there wasn't much demand for anything bar Easter and Christmas for the obvious material gains a child enjoys... The colours and smells the sounds and atmosphere was amazing!
The biggest problem I encountered could IMHO be put completely down to the parents passing on their hatred of anything different to the kids, everyday I got the snot kicked out of me while protecting my brothers as best I could against attack purely for our ethnicity, one day I had had enough, after having knives lunged at me beaten with skipping ropes in the tennis courts and generally tortured everyday, at age 9 I had enough... And contemplated dark imaginings a 9 year old would be disturbed in doing so, either by killing or be killed.... Sounds drastic but I lived it and there's a point all of you would snap to. After school ended I saw the 11-12 and 13 year old groups that gave me the most abuse and legged it to the parent pick up area in hopes my mumm was there to rescue me (no shame in it after all that), she wasn't... I was in the tree lined drive of the school god knows how many burka clad women stood watching doing nothing as the kids drew more and more blood each time their knuckles buried into my face... Nothing that is except crowd around and watch as my head was being stamped and spat on. My mum like a sodding hero of old burst through the black wall of burkas and the only way I can describe it, 'twatted' each of them till she got to me, then screaming at these mothers who only then reacted... By pointing and shouting at HER! I needed my head scanned after vomiting several times due to a big concussion and then a dentist to see what he could do to sort my teeth out...
Took it to the headmaster the next day as mum needed the boys names for the police, apparently Mr Dhatt had no idea who they where and laughed at the idea I was victim of racist attack, actually saying and I quote "you cannot be rascist to a white person". There was a total cover up no action was taken.
I was home schooled till we moved to a friendlier area...
This was my experience of these "self policing communities" that "oppose evil".
This gave me a questionable attitude toward the ethnic community for years, I'd even say it made me racist. I'm glad to say now though I recognise the difference between the religious SELF persecution that those groups rely upon to exact their agenda, and the amazing cultures that exist in our community, unfortunately many are now tainted .
My mum has just come back from Jordan after a charity trek across the desert, and said the Muslim people in Petra where some of the most amazing wonderful folk that you could meet!
I think that here in Britain and abroad we see a sub culture that descended from the immigrants to this country who hold on to and pass down old resentments and stories of persecution to their kids that in turn tell their own. By the snowball effect of Chinese whispers, twisting religion to political agenda and truly evil people that unfortunately in this country find themselves as community leaders and spokesmen within the ethnic population things won't get better before they get much much more worse.
And for you foreign folk to our shores that aren't familiar with slough its a big town just outside of London that is for all purposes, a slum, you can smell it when driving past on the motorway (not kidding, its worse in summer), iv witnessed a gun point car jacking, stabbings and innumerable robberies, its a truly horrible place to live... As was my experience.
I lived in slough for a short period of my childhood. I and my two brothers where three of five white British kids in the school of over 1000 pupils.
I loved the foods and celebrations that the school promoted for the Sikh Muslim and other religions, even Christianity though there wasn't much demand for anything bar Easter and Christmas for the obvious material gains a child enjoys... The colours and smells the sounds and atmosphere was amazing!
The biggest problem I encountered could IMHO be put completely down to the parents passing on their hatred of anything different to the kids, everyday I got the snot kicked out of me while protecting my brothers as best I could against attack purely for our ethnicity, one day I had had enough, after having knives lunged at me beaten with skipping ropes in the tennis courts and generally tortured everyday, at age 9 I had enough... And contemplated dark imaginings a 9 year old would be disturbed in doing so, either by killing or be killed.... Sounds drastic but I lived it and there's a point all of you would snap to. After school ended I saw the 11-12 and 13 year old groups that gave me the most abuse and legged it to the parent pick up area in hopes my mumm was there to rescue me (no shame in it after all that), she wasn't... I was in the tree lined drive of the school god knows how many burka clad women stood watching doing nothing as the kids drew more and more blood each time their knuckles buried into my face... Nothing that is except crowd around and watch as my head was being stamped and spat on. My mum like a sodding hero of old burst through the black wall of burkas and the only way I can describe it, 'twatted' each of them till she got to me, then screaming at these mothers who only then reacted... By pointing and shouting at HER! I needed my head scanned after vomiting several times due to a big concussion and then a dentist to see what he could do to sort my teeth out...
Took it to the headmaster the next day as mum needed the boys names for the police, apparently Mr Dhatt had no idea who they where and laughed at the idea I was victim of racist attack, actually saying and I quote "you cannot be rascist to a white person". There was a total cover up no action was taken.
I was home schooled till we moved to a friendlier area...
This was my experience of these "self policing communities" that "oppose evil".
This gave me a questionable attitude toward the ethnic community for years, I'd even say it made me racist. I'm glad to say now though I recognise the difference between the religious SELF persecution that those groups rely upon to exact their agenda, and the amazing cultures that exist in our community, unfortunately many are now tainted .
My mum has just come back from Jordan after a charity trek across the desert, and said the Muslim people in Petra where some of the most amazing wonderful folk that you could meet!
I think that here in Britain and abroad we see a sub culture that descended from the immigrants to this country who hold on to and pass down old resentments and stories of persecution to their kids that in turn tell their own. By the snowball effect of Chinese whispers, twisting religion to political agenda and truly evil people that unfortunately in this country find themselves as community leaders and spokesmen within the ethnic population things won't get better before they get much much more worse.
And for you foreign folk to our shores that aren't familiar with slough its a big town just outside of London that is for all purposes, a slum, you can smell it when driving past on the motorway (not kidding, its worse in summer), iv witnessed a gun point car jacking, stabbings and innumerable robberies, its a truly horrible place to live... As was my experience.
It is my belief that to be prepared information must be deseminated and distributed as quickly as possible to those that have the ability to teach and deliver those lessons they learn
Those that can not teach must be taught to act that can not act must be protected that would mock ignore and harm be addressed.
Those that can not teach must be taught to act that can not act must be protected that would mock ignore and harm be addressed.