This is going to be waaaay to much information that I shouldn't really be sharing, but seeing where we are now, I just have to say it in the hope that it gets to at least one person and changes the way they think.
I am considered 3rd generation British. My great grandfather was born in what was British India/Raj in 1922. He died in 2020. British India was subsequently divided under British rule much later and he was technically born in what we now call Pakistan. He was 17 when he joined the British Army and a father of two, he had my grandma and my great uncle. Great grandad was one of the 400,000+ Muslims serving in one or both of the World Wars, for, the British Army.
My grandmother was only a few months old when she arrived in the UK with her dad. She lived her whole life in the UK and went on to have her children one of them being my mum, and then I came along rather a lot later.
I just want people to think, just please please stop and think before opening their mouths. Every single person you see who doesn't look like your typical British person (whatever that is) has a story, they have a background and heritage that you know nothing about. The black person or Asian person or brown person or Sikh person or Hindu person you see walking down the street is here for a reason. Take a look at history, do your research and have a look at how the UK actually became what it is now, a diverse country with many cultures living (semi) peacefully.
All I have been seeing on social media (algorithms obviously) is the constant racist comments and the old chestnut of "deport them" "go back to your own country" etc. It got old a long time ago and it just shows the sheer ignorance of so many.
I was born in the UK and I know nothing different. I never had my own country to go back to and I am just as British as your children and grand children.
Although I now live abroad, I love my heritage and I love that I am able to say that the UK was where I was born and raised. I don't consider myself a practicing Muslim (my name on here gives it away somewhat!) but I respect my families religion and I respect the culture I was born in, just like millions of others.
It is not "fresh off the boat" or "off the back of the lorry" which is the rhetoric that so many people just spout without even having an ounce of historical knowledge or context.
If the next time you want to know about something, ask that person, ask them how they came to be where they are.
Before ignorantly assuming that you know that someone everyone is fresh off the boat without papers, you may be surprised to learn that they have been here just as long as you have, and their families certainly have, too.
My great grandfather's story is my story and I'm proud of him and I'm proud of my story.
I have been lurking here and I value the many informed opinions whether it's something I agree with or not. I am glad there is open and honest discussion about what is happening in our world, as a whole, right now.
I am considered 3rd generation British. My great grandfather was born in what was British India/Raj in 1922. He died in 2020. British India was subsequently divided under British rule much later and he was technically born in what we now call Pakistan. He was 17 when he joined the British Army and a father of two, he had my grandma and my great uncle. Great grandad was one of the 400,000+ Muslims serving in one or both of the World Wars, for, the British Army.
My grandmother was only a few months old when she arrived in the UK with her dad. She lived her whole life in the UK and went on to have her children one of them being my mum, and then I came along rather a lot later.
I just want people to think, just please please stop and think before opening their mouths. Every single person you see who doesn't look like your typical British person (whatever that is) has a story, they have a background and heritage that you know nothing about. The black person or Asian person or brown person or Sikh person or Hindu person you see walking down the street is here for a reason. Take a look at history, do your research and have a look at how the UK actually became what it is now, a diverse country with many cultures living (semi) peacefully.
All I have been seeing on social media (algorithms obviously) is the constant racist comments and the old chestnut of "deport them" "go back to your own country" etc. It got old a long time ago and it just shows the sheer ignorance of so many.
I was born in the UK and I know nothing different. I never had my own country to go back to and I am just as British as your children and grand children.
Although I now live abroad, I love my heritage and I love that I am able to say that the UK was where I was born and raised. I don't consider myself a practicing Muslim (my name on here gives it away somewhat!) but I respect my families religion and I respect the culture I was born in, just like millions of others.
It is not "fresh off the boat" or "off the back of the lorry" which is the rhetoric that so many people just spout without even having an ounce of historical knowledge or context.
If the next time you want to know about something, ask that person, ask them how they came to be where they are.
Before ignorantly assuming that you know that someone everyone is fresh off the boat without papers, you may be surprised to learn that they have been here just as long as you have, and their families certainly have, too.
My great grandfather's story is my story and I'm proud of him and I'm proud of my story.
I have been lurking here and I value the many informed opinions whether it's something I agree with or not. I am glad there is open and honest discussion about what is happening in our world, as a whole, right now.
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Most loveliest man who once again was born here 
what a sad world we genuinely live in when I actually think this could potentially work to an extent 