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<blockquote data-quote="nlj" data-source="post: 667866" data-attributes="member: 17650"><p>Completely agree - the power of the media, left-wing or right-wing, and carefully selected footage. Here we also have different words used - the BBC used to use 'migrants', this then morphed into 'refugees and migrants'. Left-wing journalists refer to everyne as 'refugees' whereas right-wing journalists refer to everyone as 'migrants'. I think though, the vast majority are men travelling alone. Suzir also says:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are also issues of religion and culture, but this isn't the place to discuss these issues.</p><p></p><p>Some people here have been accused of double-standards. E.g. offering a spare room for a refugee family, when there are large numbers of British families living in poverty and needing a decent home.</p><p></p><p>It's such a difficult subject. My own mother's family were migrants during the Spanish Civil War and were immigrants in this country, along with huge numbers of other people. This is also true of the US. Many people don't have to go back many generations before they find a migrant or refugee.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You can't lump all 'Europeans' together and ask what we are thinking. We're all thinking different things, and by "all' I mean all the different countries and all the different people within those countries. To return to the Monty Python theme from several weeks ago: "Yes. We are all individuals".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlj, post: 667866, member: 17650"] Completely agree - the power of the media, left-wing or right-wing, and carefully selected footage. Here we also have different words used - the BBC used to use 'migrants', this then morphed into 'refugees and migrants'. Left-wing journalists refer to everyne as 'refugees' whereas right-wing journalists refer to everyone as 'migrants'. I think though, the vast majority are men travelling alone. Suzir also says: There are also issues of religion and culture, but this isn't the place to discuss these issues. Some people here have been accused of double-standards. E.g. offering a spare room for a refugee family, when there are large numbers of British families living in poverty and needing a decent home. It's such a difficult subject. My own mother's family were migrants during the Spanish Civil War and were immigrants in this country, along with huge numbers of other people. This is also true of the US. Many people don't have to go back many generations before they find a migrant or refugee. You can't lump all 'Europeans' together and ask what we are thinking. We're all thinking different things, and by "all' I mean all the different countries and all the different people within those countries. To return to the Monty Python theme from several weeks ago: "Yes. We are all individuals". [/QUOTE]
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