I was born in the UK - in London, in Guys Hospital in 1995 - which is weird cos I’m closer to St.Thomas’ 🤔
This is my home. If you send me away on a boat, I’d end up back here… or not, cos I don’t know how to sail 😭
I am not of Anglo Saxon decent - that I know of (Sri Lanka was colonised by the Portuguese, Dutch and British at various points in history).
Some might not consider me English, which is totally cool, I don’t think I’m English either cos my ethnicity is Sinhalese with a little kiwi (curtesy of mystery grandad/mum).
I am, however, British. That is my nationality.
Right now, this is my home, and has been my whole life. I love it. It will always be a part of me.
I especially love that I grew up in London, cos this stuff doesn’t matter unless you’re filling in a form. It’s not something I sit around and think about, I just know it in my heart. I love that my mum isn’t English cos I get to hear about how different her childhood was. If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t know how amazing outdoor showers are. I was so stubborn to try it when I visited Sri Lanka last. Now, I crave it. I love having had friends from England, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Jamaica, Nigeria, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Trinidad and Tobago, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia, China, Italy, Switzerland, America, France, turkey, Germany, Sri Lanka, India, South Korea, Japan, Dominican Republic etc.
I wouldn’t be who I am today if I didn’t grow up with so much love and culture around me. Granted I might be a little ridiculous sometimes, but I like who I am cos I know I have pure intentions and I try my best to understand people. I don’t always understand people - like right now with the rioters - but I am trying. I don’t care where you’re from, if I love you, you’re my family. Which means I have sisters of Afghan, Eritrean, Spanish and Portuguese ethnicity - and brothers who are of Indian, Italian, Nigerian, English and Sinhalese ethnicity. And we’re all British. I have always believed that family is where you find it. Same with home.
I can’t ignore that we do have our problems as a country, as a kingdom. Even so, how does responding in violence solve anything? I grew up around violence, and I never saw any good come of it. Just more violence. I take it as a life lesson - though I don’t know that I needed that much of a lesson 😅. I made a deal with the universe though - I’ll get my ass organised and in return I would like a mostly peaceful life with quite a bit of adventure and lots of love - that is actually a lot to ask I realise but I’m still hopeful. I just think there are no real winners in war. I understand self defence, but if you’re angry and looking for a fight cos nobody is listening, I’d recommend you buy a punching bag (pillows work for me), meditate, find your zen and work smarter to use your words with the people who deserve it. The world now thinks that we’re animals - no, not animals. Animals behave better than us. That we’re angry idiots. I’m sad, cos I know that that’s not who we are.
Im okay if people are protesting peacefully that they are unhappy with immigration. That they don’t think people like my mum should be here or that the children of immigrants should be here (🙋🏽♀️). It’s hurtful. I cried when I saw some of the things being said, and I don’t agree at all with what they’re saying about any immigrant, but I do think they have a right to say it if that’s what they believe. I agree with them that Police shouldn’t be arresting people just for that. I also understand and agree that the government aren’t doing their jobs properly. This is where my agreement ends. People will think I’m mad, but I’d rather have freedom of speech and disagree with people (peacefully) than not be allowed to voice an opinion and be arrested for comments online - which is what’s happening, and will likely be happening more, thanks to the rioters who have given government and the police an excuse to come down harder…
The media tell half truths (of course), people aren’t acting rational, the police aren’t letting people speak their truth and the people are responding with violence - though I don’t think that’s any excuse. I still don’t know what’s real. Are rioters really on their way to London to smash cars and burn stuff? Or is the media talking about a peaceful protest with a few dangerous racist plonkers? I don’t know. I know the media can lie and twist things, but there wouldn’t be anything to twist if the people weren’t committing violent acts. I do know that.
I really want to give the protesters the benefit of the doubt, even if I disagree with them. Freedom of speech is important, always. But I just see non-stop rioting/looting and burning now, and I will never agree with that. It’s inhumane.
Anyway, this was my rant. Hope I didn’t bum anyone out. Just needed to vent.
thank you for sharing this
Thank you for taking the time to read it and let me express myself 💜🫂🙏🏽
Great piece! I think violence is the end stage of long lasting and slowly accumulation anxiety, frustration and eventually fear. It’s the end signal something is structurally broken. You can condemn violence or recognize - as as society - you missed or ignored all the signals that lead to the violence. After violence comes war.
Ah man, I really hope you’re wrong 😞🫂 war is never good 🙏🏽. The only time I like it is if it’s in lord of the rings.
Would that the world be filled with more reasonable people...
Violence is being turned to because people (I think rightfully in this case) are having their home place invaded by those who wish them I'll, and instead of those who wield power (another issue to deal with in another discussion) standing up for those who are reasonable and peaceful, they are using that power to suppress those who have more right to be concerned about the artificial changes in their communities, especially when it comes to violence done to their children.
But this is all as it is supposed to be. This has been the plan all along. Divisiveness foments consolidation of yet more power in the hands of a few. It is disgusting and could easily be stopped without violence, but, those in power have chosen a path where you will be enslaved if you do not fight for your freedom, in many cases physically.
I share your sentiment about growing up in a very urban environment. While not quite as diverse as your early life, growing up in NYC could lead me to say much of the same things. It did positively shape me to be more cognizant of the enjoyment of different peoples that came together to live in a weird and wild (different from the wilds of nature, obviously) place. But I could never live in a big city these days. The nostalgia for the past is tempered by stark history, a fuller view that while you may find good anywhere, darkness gets deeper in places where too many people congregate. Thus, I wish to go live on the side of a mountain where those that might make the journey are truly worthy company, and those that will not shall not break bread with me.
This post and this response are why we need open source communication
…varying opinions beautifully (and more importantly authentically) stated by both of you🌅
…these issues are so complex…and IMHO generally boil down to failures (corruption and questionable ulterior motives) of leadership
“This”
….is why I nostr 🌅
In UK I think the problem is actually highlighted by political promise. Several governments promised to "solve" or at least "do something" with illegall immigration. But they never even tried. They never planned to try. At least to make some gesture, something.
And in combination of horrible lying about serious crimes and gaslighting anybody who tried to speak against really did prepare very combustive mix.
When there's more people but mob, there is no rationality left unfortunately.
Yes. That's exactly correct.
Plus, the citizens abdicated responsibility to various levels of gubmebt quite a long time ago. The frustration has been building for decades and is about to burst, to the detriment of all.
I could never live in the big city. The more I listen to true crime podcasts, the more I realize that friends and good people are few and far between out in the offline world
Yes, though, there is evil everywhere.
It's the money that's broken not our country.
Folks lay blame where they're told is the root of their problems while others are being told their problems are the other folks.
Same old.
Appreciate you sharing this 💜
The irony is that if you look back far enough, most of us are hail from immigrants at some point in history (myself included, and I'm soon to be an immigrant to another nation...hopefully)
Immigration is what makes countries and ideas thrive. The culmination of different backgrounds and environments blended together in pursuit of a better future. At least, that's the immigration I have been surrounded with, like yourself.
I'm blessed to have friends and neighbours from all corners of the world living within a 5 minute walk of my home. I couldn't imagine growing up where everyone was just similarly uniform, it would have been beyond tedious.
Calls for the removal of immigrants seems non-sensical to me. But so does violence. The pen is mighier than the sword, provided you have the vocabulary to weird it.
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There’s been serious disinformation at play. The horrid murder of those kids was brutally manipulated for political means.
The lie that the murderer was a recent Muslim immigrant can be traced back to a news source in Austin, Texas, propagated via X by the likes of Farage and Yaxley Lennon and those seeking to capitalise from social unrest. A lot of people blame immigration for being poorer. That’s a shame coming from people in the bitcoin world, who typically see themselves as critical thinkers?
I’m not surprised things have kicked off but I’m saddened by what caused it and who has been scapegoated for it.
The dude who killed those kids was born in Wales. He didn’t arrive on a ‘small boat’ (rubber dinghies actually). He was born and raised here just like you or I.
I actually live on the SE coast. I’ve seen the rubber dinghies land on the beach. In fact we went and helped them. Why? Because we’re fucking human. The reproduction rate in the UK is something like 1.4 per couple. 1.3 in London. With that rate no one will be able to care for an increasingly older population. That’s a fact. I know a lot of people have strong feelings about that, well either folks start fucking or without immigration the UK will decline steeply in population size.
We all have choices on who to blame but when it comes to societal decline. Is it the money? Is it immigration? Is it this, is it that? Setting fire to a Holiday Inn housing migrants, often from countries mashed up from the tools of war produced in the uk, that ain’t solving anything. Nor is blaming whole religions, colours or class for tension. Look up, not down!
Horrible that you’ve been made to feel unwelcome here by a bunch of bellends.
Fix the money, fix the world or go and smash the windows at a mosque. We all make our own path.
Good perspective here.
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I hope your govt is not maneuvering for more power and tyranny. But that’s what some of this feels like…
That's precisely what they are doing.
I hope loyal citizens like Eshara realize that and don’t get distracted by nostalgia. It’s probably easy to get complacent and think things like, “well, it’s not that bad yet.”
(tbf I’ve done little to nothing meaningful to respond to US state tyranny other than buy BTC and use privacy + censorship resistant tech)
I am loyal to the people of Britain 🙏🏽 I love the art, architecture, music, culture and history, but I never will and never have trusted the government. I think it’s terrible already. The government have no right to police what is said online - even things I don’t like to see.
But that is something Kendy 🫂🙏🏽 makes a world of difference
That’s exactly what they’re doing 😞
When is enough enough? Your govt is the worst
Tous nos territoires vivent à travers le monde des moments cycliques c'est souvent particulièrement liés à des problématiques d'ordre sociologiques avec nos systèmes de croyannces, luttes de classes sociales de pouvoir, l'espèce humaine voire le *3eme chimpanzé*qui a su évoluer grâce à ses 6 créations pourtant demeure la plus intelligente * malheureusement est capable de mettre en péril tout un tas systèmes qu'il a dûs concevoir développer au courant de ses diverses phases de l'histoire pourtant à tant instant peuvent le mener à sa perte ...n'oubliez jamais aussi notre part Darwien quelque soit le pays ...qui peut être notre cauchemar ...
Nous nous devons compte tenu de l'intelligence dont oud nous targuons de prendre du recul, et nous protéger ensemble les engagements qui permettent de maintenir le pacte social du bien vivre ensemble ( civisme, droits humains, moral...) les systèmes de pouvoirs qui ont mis en place depuis des siècles demeurent..et déraillent en période d'incertitude liée à l'économie...c'est dans tous les * soi disants grands pays" qui ont été juste à oeuvrer sur des grands textes tels que la déclaration des droits de lois où on se retrouve avec des problématiques d'ordre social et juridique qui violent les déclarations dont tout pays se devrait de faire respecter quelque soit la situation économique...
Ces dernieres années nous surfons sur la guerre des races dans presque toutes l'Europeen plus des guerres de religions depuis bien avant les années .
l'Europe y compris les USA sont plus particulièrement est en danger avec une grande partie de la population vieillissante dont peu se préoccupe et autre part en réelle difficulté sociale et économique dont la priorité n'est plus de procréer ou de se mettre mais plutôt d'avoir un accès social via un emploi stable ...et dans ces périodes il y a forcément une confrontation de nos diverses systèmes sociologiques
Ces dernières il y a un fort retour de mouvements eugénistes qui vont à l'encontre de tous les droits humains quelque soit le système de croyance ...
Là il faudrait être vigilant c'est lorsqu'il y a des influences étrangères qui financent de tels mouvements et tenter de comprendre les dessous puisque la liberté individuelle se trouve infinie en péril dans un contexte politique où des lois démoniaques ont créés à l'encontre de l'une des 3 religions monothéistes et qui stigmatisent d'office une grande partie de la partie de la population mondiale via les médias un danger pour nous tous. Les préjugés ont le vent en poupe dans ces temps de luttes de pouvoirs
Hélas ces situations de confrontation de pouvoirs politique et religieuse entraînent actuellement ce retour fort exécrable de race alors que paradoxalement nous ne sommes qu'une seule espèce: Humain en attendant que notre 6 création qu' est la technologie nous rende obsolète oisif grâce à l'IA
Pensons plutôt à mettre en place le revenu universel qui permettait au 3eme chimpanzé de pouvoir survivre tout en maintenant ses capacités cognitives
Très chère Eshara ai juste envie de vous avoir à côté our vous aérer sachez qu'en cas de troubles sociaux les artistes ont cette capacité de s'exprimer autrement pour ne pas basculer vers le côté obscur ..ou l'engagement via les œuvres...avez vous la dernière de Basquiat ?A voir ⚜️🫂♾️
Simple solution to all of this:
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"
"Thou shalt not steal"
"Thou shalt not bear false witness"
"Thou shalt not kill"
Everything wrong with society today is because people are ignoring those 10 simple rules...
I have friends and family over there. Hope you're safe. 🫂
Oh no, I hope they’re okay 🫂🙏🏽 it’s alright in London. Outside of London I think is okay but tensions are high in places 🙏🏽
I’m fine lovely 🙏🏽 not worried about being harmed at all, don’t think that would happen, but am nervous about our freedom of speech
Sending hugs 🫂.
i love your profile pic 🫡🤩
Totally what I look like IRL 😆
Don't get yourself down, luv. Although I can't deny that I have been planning on fleeing the UK. The safety of my daughter and my mum will always take priority. 🤷♂️ It is... what it is.
Feel better. 🫂🫡
I picture you as Del Boy from ‘only fools and horses’ when you say luv 😂🫂
Is it cos the government suck 😭🫂
family is everything 💯🫂
I wouldn't fear, the government is stoking fear and panic in order to pass draconian legislation.
The percieved conflict is much more asymmetrical in reality: the response to this unrest from the state, antifa, the ngo complex and the immigrant community itself dwarfs the "far right" or whatever you want to call them by an overwhelming margin, most of it organised with lightning fast speed and precision, suggesting it isnt entirely grassroots.
I just seen a video today of a man (I presume he was muslim) ,surrounded by ngos and antifa types, calling for protestors throats to be slit and he was met with applause, meanwhile this highly dangerous racist mob if we are to believe it, can't even share videos or communicate online without being surveilled and arrested.
I'm not saying this to take sides, merely to answer your question about how immenient a threat this is to you in reality, I believe it's blown wildly out of proportion in order to manufacture public consent for facial recognition data collection, draconian regulation of online communication, introduction of the notion of 'pre-crime' and censorship in general.
This Guardian headline demomstrates my point about the rapid response of ngos and leftists, some cynics among us would say preprepared.
https://www.frontpages.com/g/2024/08/07/the-guardian-234058170.webp
But that’s why I’m afraid 😭🫂 that, and people might get hurt. I’m not worried about myself at all 🙏🏽 I’m just worried cos it seems our rights of free speech are being completely taken away. As soon as I saw Keira speech, I knew it was coming. People are so horrified by the looting and riots that they’re convinced the best action is to let the government do what it needs to. Such bullshit. Look at this: screenshot 👇
I totally agree Séimí 🫂 that’s why I said the media twist it. But that’s why I was worried, cos I knew them doing that would cause people to fret and think we need this online policing. I don’t like seeing people incite violence online, or post violent content - but I mute and block like crazy if I need to.
Not all are far right, but some definitely are and things Tommy Robinson are saying today are awful.
The post I made up there was in response to this interview - worth a watch. Some people were saying that just cos you were born here, doesn’t mean you’re British, cos the murderer of the three young children was British. Some wanted a reason to be mad at immagrants I suppose. Why can’t they just be angry at him as a bad individual, and not have it be about his nationality. This was just me expressing my thoughts on my nationality and my experience growing up in London with immigrants and how there is love and it’s not all doom and gloom 🫂
I wasn’t comparing immigration from 1995 to 2024 🙏🏽 I was just responding to the idea that I wasn’t British. Reading peoples comments and Andrew Tate’s silence when asked about it made me feel like a mud-blood 😞
And I actually agree with you on this too 🙏🏽 and I know I’m not far right. Just being logical, although it is sad to think about. I’ve touched on this before, about it being a rather tricky topic to manoeuvre, so people don’t talk about it because they are afraid of appearing racist. Those at the protest who had a genuine concern about funding this were legit, but those that cared about the colour or religion… those were dodgy people with unsound arguments. If you want to protect your children, protest drugs and knives.
When I mentioned the ‘problems’ this was one of them. We have too much mass immigration - for me it has nothing to do with colour and ethnicity, it has to do with the struggle I see for people financially every day. Piers is right, it’s not sustainable and we have millions coming in and only thousands going out. But that’s not the people who are trying to find a better life’s fault, it’s the government. And not every immigrant is bad, just like not every Brit is good. That man who stabbed those kids was born in wales. Bad people come from every walk of life, in every race religion and gender - people should remember this.
Sorry about my grammar and most likely spelling 🫂 I’m so Oo sleep.I couldn’t sleep thinking about what the government were up to and people burning buildings last night.
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I can imagine that there is a lot of hurtful sentiment flying around in the ether right now.
It's such a travesty, the entire thing.
I believe that people are being used in the most hideous way.
I don't know what being Briitsh means, so I won't even approach that, although I see that it hurt you when people brought it into question, and I empathise.
Also Tommy Robinson, aka Yaxley Lennon is almost certainly an agent provocateur.
Wait, what’s that? 🤯👀 the only agent provocateur I know is a lingerie brand - there’s no way he’s modelling for them. Would be wild 👀
I think I heard this term in a spy tv series once too 🤔
An agent provocateur is military lingo for a shitstirrer.
💜🫂 yeah, I just wanted to have my say 🫂 thank you for your input too 🙏🏽
Means drinking lots of tea, mostly 🥹but also belonging and home 🫂
Who loots crocs from shoezone? They probably aren’t even real 😭 risking jail time for fake crocs… unbelievable. Also this has nothing to do with protecting children. These might or might not be far right extremists, I dunno. But they’re definitely committing crimes and are complete idiots. Crocs are the worst. I’d give them 50 years for bad taste alone. https://i.nostr.build/iLbaUJphS6kdJFvZ.jpg
@heatherlarson where did you say you were?
Heather say it isn’t so 😭 you don’t like crocs do you? 🫂
I do NOT like crocs 🤣 they are hideous. @QW loves them and wants to keister stash jibbitz
Everywhere and nowhere all at once 🤷♀️
I think bitcoin will someday make nationalities irrelevant again. Just don’t let the madness get to you before that day comes.
That would be rather interesting 🥹🫂 I’ll try 🙏🏽😭
Nicely put and I can identify with a lot of what you’ve written, especially how the media distorts and governments twist. I wasn’t born in the UK but my mother is full British and I’ve lived in the UK / London most of my life. I’ve experienced the full spectrum from lovely friendly Brits to intolerant racist and violent bigots (from on all sides). But like you, I believe in free speech. But that speech is simply better when it’s rooted in broad experience and perspectives, as well as peace and love.
Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. Thor Hyerdahl, kon tiki
You're probably underage and never went outside if you never saw a border.
They exist, and have existed for centuries. You're about to discover why they are needed.
borders divide. that's the only thing they're good for. At the end of the day we're all just people.
Yeah, go anywhere in Africa without defending your perimeter/border and then let me know how it went.
You won't value the existence of borders while you are living comfortably inside one of the good countries.
First world privilege I guess.
You don't know me, know nothing about my life or history so please do not make assumptions. I've travelled half my life and lived in 4 third world countries. First world privilege? right...
borders work better for cattle & sheep
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Love will always be stronger than hate.
I don’t think violence solves this issue. Well short of a genocide one way or the other though I fervently hope no one involved is so inclined. I’m going to weigh in as someone who is watching the small town my family has been living in and around for almost 300 years turn into urban sprawl for a large metropolitan area 15 miles away. For the most part it’s internal migration within the US. We won’t be rude to newcomers. Mostly. If you complain about the weather, the bugs or the way we do things then we’ll ask if you need help moving back up north. None of us like the extra infrastructure that has to be built, a dozen schools in my lifetime. The extra traffic. All the forest being clear cut for housing developments. The fact that now maybe we can’t just go shoot a .22 at cans in the back yard without some Karen calling the cops. Maybe it’s wrong to tar everyone moving here with that brush. It’s easy to do though and really we don’t know any of the newcomers from Adam. They are easy to spot though. Well. Easy to hear anyway.
Like I say I won’t be rude to you unless you start complaining about the place when ain’t nobody from here asked you to move here. That’s most of us but, and I’ll project here with conversations I’ve had with other people whose families have been here for generations. None of us particularly care for it if the people I know are any indication. That’s likely a function of numbers. Hundreds and sometimes thousands a year every year? Why would anyone expect us to like that?
Now that I think about it these parts were still part of the British Empire back in those days.
That sounds lovely to live out of the city 🫂 yeah I can imagine it can get annoying having people complain about it 🙏🏽
It is lovely. Not that I have ever lived in a city for comparison.
Cool story, bro.
But you still have to go.
Islam which is used to poison people’s minds is the issue, not peoples ethnicity
There is nothing wrong with Islam. Radicals misinterpreting the words of Allah is no different to the church misinterpreting the word of god. Let's not forget about the inquisition and the "holy" wars.
Islam is not a religion, but a totalitarian political ideology/system, very similar to other totalitarian systems, just like communism
So if you want to be a subservient slave, islam is perfect for you
How do severe flaws in both mean "nothing wrong" in either?
Stay safe. Hope things get sorted out quickly there.
Thank you burns 🫂💜 all is well 🙏🏽
I also was born in Guys Hospital London! You're the first I've met (e-met or on person) who was born in the same building as me!
The violence is a symptom of frustration that the Govt aren't listening to the people and running roughshod over them.
The Govt is mean to lead not rule.
Unfortunately people get lumped together because people are unable to make a distinction between the innocent and the illegals.
People want their country back.
The crackdown on social media by the Govt is because the govt feel they are losing control of the people, and will progressively tighten their hold until something snaps.
The people are most dangerous when they feel like they have nothing to lose because the Govt has taken it all away. That is the tipping point and the UK govt is speeding towards it.
Stay safe.
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