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I'm a WASP (white anglo-saxon protestant), so I guess it would be ok to build a gated community and only let other WASPs in?
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It's not gated (at least i've never come across any inner city retirement village in the uk that is u.s.-style gated). It's not a monoculture*, there are 40 places reserved for supply to a segment of the asian community in that area who have been officially marked out as uncatered for.
there are _3 unreserved blocks on the same development_, whose places are up for general consideration.
I'm really, really sick of my fellow WASPs (I was christened and raised in church of orange, no less) kneejerking themselves into a tailspin as soon as any non-white minority dares to suggest that it have facilities which cater to it, in a very small way, as though it were the majority.
These people have cultural requirements that are markedly different to us nice white folks, why shouldn't they be catered for as they would like to be?
The lib dem says the first thing they should do is make sure they aren't breaking any laws. well, isnt that the first thing every authority should be doing? and, we only get one little comment from mr lib dem, knowing lib dems in this country, i'm damn sure he had more to say than that.
You're swallowing a sensationalist line from a non-story cooked up on a slow news day.
*though i'd have no troubles in allowing moncultures in specific circumstances for tiny minorities with cultures very different to that which surrounds them every day. (Why should a muslim live in a home where he or she watches others eating pork, wondering if his food is being polluted?)