BruceVC

No you are wrong there, I am a white English person but I was born in Africa so I know a lot about Colonialism When were your people begging for work? Aaaah don't play that game...if you know about colonizations then you know what i am talking about... There used to be a time where my people depend on British almost as if withoout the British we will lost, working with white masters is a guarantee of life...become your servant, your ghurka, polishing your shoes, open the door, carrying your stuff, and say "yes mem...yes sir...", working in your plantations and mines in our land, working in your companies in our own land...this is the life of us Malays under your "western education"... Do not pretend you don't know what you done to indegenious peoples around the world... Yes of course I understand what Colonialism means Sadly I had family member who were involved in Apartheid And yes Colonialism was a terrible system that mistreated many people. But I'm still not sure what you would like the UK to do now ? If its justice you are after the West has bled and suffered immensely during WW1 and WW2 But seriously what would you like from the West?

Man learn to quote, no-one wants to read wall of text which are no longer integral to disscussion bellow Good point but can you answer the actual question

Thank for sharing I am learning a lot , is Slovakian language the same as Czech? Very Close, we can understand each other without problem (well, if you are not too young) Why did your countries separate ? By greedy politicians in 1993, but without war, which would not be possible in many of the "civilized" countries They just signed some papers, and we became two states. Actually Slovaks were very nationalist (after czechs invested tons of money to industrialise them ) but no hard feelings from Czech side, town were I live is full of Slovaks because of better job opportunities and univeristies. We are like brothers and sisters who like to tease each other from time to time Well it was only the typical "loud minority" Led by V. Meciar and J.Slota and their "nationalistic" rhetoric because they wanted to get their corrupt hands on privatizing the fruits of the said industrialization :-/ Lot of common people at that time prefered loose federation over separate states :-/ This is interesting, do you see now when you are faced with a perceived threat like Islamic extremism that actually challengers your entire culture how similar you are ? In other words you are family

No you are wrong there, I am a white English person but I was born in Africa so I know a lot about Colonialism When were your people begging for work?

Thank for sharing I am learning a lot , is Slovakian language the same as Czech? Very Close, we can understand each other without problem (well, if you are not too young) Why did your countries separate ?

When you make posts like this I think you are trolling because this has been discussed at length The West allows Muslims to practice freedom of religion and be Muslim . Why would you battle to maintain to be Malay or Muslim, do you mean living in Malaysia ? The West won't force women to wear a hijab ...we have no codes around dress and that will stay like that unless Western governments lose elections to conservative ones

Thank for sharing I am learning a lot , is Slovakian language the same as Czech?

So would you feel your country would accept say 20,000 Turkish refugees ?

How do you guys feel about Turks from a historical East European perspective ?

Sure, I will

This is relevant and impacts most of us @ TN Just to be clear why was the last thread closed? We were discussing crime in the EU and the impact the refugees have on this

Well, anyone with a life threatening illness is deserving of sympathy even if they are somewhat responsible for what happened. It's pretty crass of her to not realize that. I'm not sure what apartheid has to do with it though. That was a s----y thing to be sure but I don't see the connection with AIDS and it is over now. Remember this one truth Bruce, as----es are born that way and can't help it. Don't bother getting mad ay them, just avoid them. Yeah...the thing is those types of comments I just can't leave. How can she be so completely unsympathetic and dismissive about a virus that can impact all people ....it was so utterly selfish and ignorant

Yes I was looking at the last column

I am not trying to come across as boastful but my initial assessment was right about crime being slightly higher in East European countries

Guys I want to tell you something about just how dysfunctional some white South Africans .....despite the fact its 21 years since Apartheid ended Since yesterday was World Aids Day and in South Africa we have 6 million people on AV drugs as they have HIV this is a day where we discuss HIV and we look at the stigma in society. Anyway on this one talk show they had this young black guy, 24, who had HIV and was discussing how he caught it, he was promiscuous, and what he deals with in society and how there is discrimination in some areas So this white women phones and says " does your guest expect me to feel sorry for him " She was 58 and after living through Apartheid she still somehow feels that the only responsible thing to say is to phone in and basically try to humiliate a young black person who has HIV....like 6 million other people I was so angry, I phoned in and really was critical about her

WOD if you could chose to kick-out any states from the USA who would they be? The blue states in the map above, but mostly California and New York, that's where all the evil comes from. http://www.newgeography.com/content/005110-jerry-brown-s-insufferable-green-piety "These fans miss a big part of the reality. Outsiders think of California as a prosperous place that mints billionaires, but overall the state’s economic recovery has done little for many, if not most, state residents. Even with the boom in Silicon Valley, roughly one in three Californians live check to check, the state has higher rate of poverty than Mississippi, as well as one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients. Among the emerging Latino majority, a prime Brown constituency, the state’s cost-adjusted poverty rate is more than 33 percent, compared to just 22.7 percent in Texas, a state often derided as unenlightened and cruel." "Of course, there’s a long history of such bifurcated society, where people tend to stay in their class and the poor depend largely on handouts from their spiritual “betters.” It’s called feudalism." So may be KP was right about feudalism. Shame WOD ....but won't you miss the erudite and liberal views of your Californian brethren Funny enough its very healthy and expected to have a level of rivalry between states, you are made stronger by your differences

But Hurlshot you have new members like me ....isn't that better ?

I wish you would stop ignoring me, I often disagree with you ....but its not personal. I enjoy having debates with you But I would like you to ruminate on where you live and how fortunate you are ....yet you question why I say the West offers the best quality of life to its citizens

Your idea of Western Culture is a state with neoliberal ideals? Bruce's definition of the fantastic characteristics of western civilisation is, well, what Bruce himself believes (or purports to believe to get responses). Utterly unsurprising. Though I suspect in this case he'd be far from alone in that. Yes Zora, the West offers its citizens the best quality of life and has the happiest citizens in the world But these aren't just my words, they are fact http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/03/20/international-happiness-day-happiest-countries/25073055/ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/23/travel/feat-world-happiest-countries-2015/index.html http://themysteriousworld.com/10-happiest-countries-in-the-world/ http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/05/05/the-happiest-countries-in-the-world-5/2/ But you know whats really ironic. You always provide us with " informed and reasonable " information about how corrupt, inconsistent and hypocritical the West is ....yet you live in a first world Western country. You will say " Russia needs to invade Turkey " behind the luxury of your first world Western comfort Don't you feel like a hypocrite?

I knew you would say this, its classic view from someone who suffers from " white guilt " ..

Now this is an interesting post, I am not sure if its true but it does raise some debatable points

Dark I can guarantee you Rostere is correct, thats why I said in an earlier debate " I don't believe the Swedish migration system is a failure" This is good news by the way, it means there is less reason to question the sustainability of the EU...end of the day surly we all want the EU to survive and prosper ? On what basis do you guarantee that? If you have a set of hard data that proves this, please share it with me. I shared with you and compared statistics in regards to crimes and also how the life looked in Switzerland in 80s Rostere will present evidence if he wants ..but he is very bright and reasonable so I do believe him But its not up to me to present evidence about Sweden

Dark I can guarantee you Rostere is correct, thats why I said in an earlier debate " I don't believe the Swedish migration system is a failure" This is good news by the way, it means there is less reason to question the sustainability of the EU...end of the day surly we all want the EU to survive and prosper ?

Well, not necessarily the ethnicity, though, he didn't make much mention of it. Saying all Americans are dumb or that the British are bunch of drunkards isn't racist, it's being prejudiced against a large group, for example. If he had said he assumes the rape statistics would be high as those rascally Magyars like a bit of raping now and then, that would be racist. But that's what's implied. Hungary doesn't have any significant minorities (Roma?), so other than "Magyars liking a bit of raping now and then", why would anyone assume such a thing? It's not "hai guise here's Hungary rape stats, they pretty high", or "hai guise what are Hungary rape stats?". It's just BVC assuming random stupid **** about an Eastern Europe (read: non-Western) country. Unlike American or British, Hungarian is an ethnicity. Prejudice about a particular ethnicity is hard to write off as not racism. *braces for a YT rant from a random "not racist" guy with really bad taste in hairdos* Is anyone surprised? BVC is the pinnacle of "liberal" racism (more like racism applied liberally). Everyone non-western is a sad little untermenchen savage that should join the superior civilization, for their own good, you know. We are superior therefore you must accept us and if you don't you eventually will, because we will bomb you for your own good and democracy before you realize the error of your ways. And damn you for making us do it! And on and on it goes with fascinating, bot like persistence. I'll be honest Drowsy if what Sarex said is true about how belligerent all the ex-Yugoslavian countries still are then its best you don't join the EU....but I cant believe you guys refuse to move on and just can't achieve a meaningful peace with your neighbors? Its not that hard but you seem determined to follow the path of interminable conflict ...I don't understand the logic ? That was weak my friend, but enough to confirm everything I just said about you. This is what Sarex said .....how can you not see this a really bad indictment of the region ....thats why I don't believe its that bad "Croatia is getting military equipment (from the West (US I think)) that can be converted to a range where they can launch missiles at us (Serbia) and they are licking their lips about it. Apart from that they are constantly look for a way to trip us up. Albania is looking for any way it can to destabilize the region around it and annex Kosovo to it's borders. Macedonia is fighting a battle with it's own people because it's Muslim population has gotten so high it's influence can now cause a civil war and it's changing one puppet regime for another. Bosnia has Muslim terrorist training camps in it that are operating unchecked and the country it self is falling apart because the system that is in place is unable to do anything about that. Bulgaria is just falling apart economically, because the west won't help and they can't look to the east for fear of economic reprisal from said west. Hungary is pissed at us for letting immigrants through even though they would have probably condemned us as monsters with the rest of the world for not helping them otherwise. "