Why are English people so cold?

I cant be sure who's from here anymore, they are a minority, I would bet that non UK origin people are being rude/nasty/offensive to other non UK people then we are getting blamed, theres a lot of people from all over the world here and some of them are bitter enemies, where do we get the blame for that

Hey Andy!


Dont take it personally as they are like that with everyone including their own race.

You should have moved Scotland as we get treated the same way and we are classed as brittish LOL now thats funny

It's nothing to do with you being foreign, it's just us English being English. I'd never invite someone back for tea or coffee unless I had built up a pretty much best-friend relationship with them. Other than that, the occasional evening drinking session with numerous mates, or going out for tea/coffee/beer is about as much as you can ask for. I live in a small Northeastern town, and even though I know where my best mate Liam lives, we only ever go to the pub. In fact, in the eight years I've known him, I have never been to his house. And I think that's normal.

As for foreigners, well Britain used to be one of the most travelled nations of all time. People would pay good money to be able to go to places they knew very little about, to be able to see what it's like in China, or India, or Egypt, et cetera. The problem the British have is that we are proud of our culture, as every nation SHOULD be, and it's not the foreigners that we're annoyed at, it's the fact that our government is effectively throwing our ancient culture away. We're very defensive of that, and we'll (though not me personally) take it out on the only people we know we can, the foreigners, rather than the government. Having said that, foreigners integrating into our society are fine, it's just the majority of Muslims in particular, who lock themselves off and form their own society which really pisses us off.

If like you said, you had integrated into our society, were friendly, spoke the language well, and appreciated our culture, then people won't have been ousting you. They were just being English, and yes, we are cold people, whether you're English, French, Chinese, Indian, Peruvian, Romanian, or even Alien. I'm learning Japanese, and I plan to teach English out there, I plan to travel in general, I'm not a xenophobe. But I also love my countries culture, and wish that the government would stop flooding us with immigration before the country becomes any more of a mess.

Thats not really what we mean Daveb.
Mr Hicks its insane. Even here.. Illegal immigrants false their ID documents. Then they get benefits from their home country and the host country.

Well Andy, if you didn't stereotype English people like you do, maybe you'll make some English friends. I'm English and have many foreign friends, but in 6 short paragraphs, YOU have failed to make another English friend because of YOUR xenophobia towards the English

Sorry sherise, I thought you were living in the uk. I know exactly what you are saying about some immigrants feeding on their host countries though. My next door neighbour is a ghanaian. He worked where I work but packed it in after four months when he realised he would be better off on benefits because he has two small children.

Mr Hicks, I am currently still residing in my home country, SA.
I would like to move to the UK. Then I would be an immigrant which is why I'm saying I can relate to how they feel about us comming there. Because here in SA we have many immigrants. Even illegal immigrants. Its irritating.. They feed on us.

sherise, you say you often feel violated by all the immigrants but surely your an immigrant yourself?

I am proud to be white. If I was black I'd be proud to be black. Anyway... I guess its the British people's right to feel like they do. Me as a South African also often feel violated by all the illegal/legal immigrants.

Talking to a Zimbabwe black man at work today about the snow, he has been here five years, and this years amount of snow is something he has never seen before, a bit of a surprise for him, but I can remember it being like this every year in the seventies, we had an interesting talk,

One or two racist people here may give you the impression that we are all racist, this is not the case, and certainly not me, it's the white indigneous population who deliberatly won't go out to work for years that gets me, living on a council estate I see the real picture.

they are the same with me - and I am english!! thats why I moved to the USA... you are spot on with your assessment...

Gainsborough Lad, I can understand they would complain. But yet again, foreigners also live in SA and it sucks. I don't like it one bit. I think its the reason some of us move away. Its safer in your country and because we like it there. Just a pity British don't like us there then.