Racism (again)

[Madhatter]

What I don't get is this.

I was on a forum, and someone called someone else a brit. now to me I am a brit, I'm british, I was born here, although not english. Why am I not offended by this and why was I shocked, to find that someone does find it offensive. It's just a shortening of the of britain.

Also I looked for some polish jokes on the net to post but as I found this site http://www.lysator.liu.se/jokes/polish.html by a pole making the exact same point as I was going to, you may as well go there.
incase you didn't know my grandad is polish, he was rescued during the war(always reminds me of uncle albert when I say that)after escaping during an air raid and travelling france rough for two years, he came here and joined up to the polish part of the english army. he was posted in Atherstone where he guarded the enemy, there he met my nan. he worked hard, paid in, took very little out and like me he'd die for this country if need be.
why is it, that poles can integrate into a country so easily, there's loads coming over now, and they never have a problem with having to look for work, although some are used as slave labour. you hardly ever hear any of them cry racism, and they can laugh at them selves when others from some countries expect everything, expect not to work, play the race card at every oportunity, and generally ruin it for the others that do want to integrate. It's these ones that intigate this pc crap, not the ones that want to integrate.

[WillowTheWhisp]

When I was young I had two friends whose Dads were Polish. It never really dawned on me that they were "foreign" because I'd grown up knowing them and both Dads spoke English very well but with a Polish accent. Three poles moved in next door to us and eventually 2 met and married English girls, the 3rd brought a girl over from Poland who didn't speak a word of English when she arrived and all she could do was smile and nod when we said "Hello" but before long she was chattering away like a real Lancashire lass.

It used to be the English who were too lazy to learn a foreign language.

[Madhatter]

yep thats what he did willow, couldn't speak a word, went to classes and could speak english very well in no time at all, he was never idle, he could do an amazing array of things, aswell as the normal male things like cars, and working with wood(everything was made from wood out there) he could cobble, cut hair, cook, sew, knit darn, crochet, better than most people i'v met. That accent did make people think he was welsh. I often got asked who's that welsh man.

[Mancie]

A couple of years ago I was working on a demolish re-build site that had 4 or so lads from lithuania, we just called them the russians,anyway one of them i'd say in his 20's could not speak a word of english
he came to work one day and was sacked because of health and saftey rules, I know his mates tried to help him get to know just basic english like "look out" "falling" and stuff but don't think he got to grips with it, he came back after a week and was near enough beggin for his job but no chance , i think he just wanted to earn a living and i don't belive many foriengers come here just to claim benifits.