The older West Indians are the most polite, law-abiding, God-fearing people that you could ever want to meet, and a very traditional British education system is still maintained in the Commonwealth countries of the Caribbean, most of which remain staunchly monarchist and several of which freely choose to remain British Overseas Territories, although Britain is trying to stop the Cayman Islands (like my native Saint Helena) from including Christianity in the new Constitution, as the local population strongly desires to do.
All in all, if, as Rod Liddle puts it, "young men from the African-Caribbean community" (half of all children with one Afro-Caribbean parent now have one white parent, anyway) commit "the overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London", then there is something about Britain, or probably about London specifically, that has had that effect on them.
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Bah. A hundred years ago, the Rod Liddles fulminated against gin-sodden "shanty-Irish" hooligans mafficking through the streets of Cricklewood and Southwark. A hundred years hence, they shall be raging at a new set of "unassimilated barbarians". Romanians, perhaps…
ReplyDeleteI don’t suppose it ever occurs to gentlemen scholars like Liddle that it is the brutish soullessness of post-modern life and the dehumanizing anonymity of market-defined “Mass Man” (rather than a certain kind of DNA) that create the kind of lawlessness they abhor.