I just despair of the gullibility of the general populace and their lack of critical reflection. If they just thought about what they were reading and how likely it was to be true, a lot of ill will towards ‘the other’ could be avoided. More occasions like that meeting to explain different cultures. One of my fellow (female ) stall holders came over to my neighbours stall where an Asian woman was attempting to haggle. The stall holder was dealing with the situation with humour, refusing to lower the price. This other woman went over to listen, having failed to get me to go with her, then came back to me and said how the Asian woman wanted ’slapping’. Now tell me there is no racism in Britain.

This woman had already complained how she couldn’t get help to rent a shop, not like the Asians who get all this money. What money? I’m tired of all this rubbish I hear every where, repeated so often it becomes accepted as true. No doubt there are tabloid Spanish papers, which print similar stories about British immigrants. And some Spanish people willing to listen. No doubt they complain about the shops which spring up to sell baked beans and other English delicacies. And the smell of English food probably.

C’est la vie unfortunately,
Marjorie