XVIII. The Knights of Nelson (II)

At the same time, the people of the "China Strange Organization Tour Group", who had just escaped from Hyde Park in a bus and were slowly "squirming" on the streets of London that were heavily congested, were also looking at the racist leaflets thrown by the Nelson Knights just now, while discussing what they saw today.

In fact, Wang Qiu had always been very puzzled by the fact that Weishenme could see so many blacks in Britain - it is easy to understand that there are many blacks in the United States, and that is mainly the descendants of African black slaves who were purchased in bulk by tobacco and cotton plantations in the south of the United States before the Civil War. But there are no plantations in Britain itself, and the black people in Africa are not suitable labor for the factory, so where did so many black British people come from?

-- The United States is a country of immigrants and needs to constantly absorb foreign population, but the United Kingdom is not! In the past few hundred years, not to mention absorbing labor, the British themselves were often forced to stay in Britain by population pressure, and had to migrate to the United States!

It was only now that he read the flyers of the Nelson Order and chatted for a while with a few colleagues who had been on missions in England that Wang Qiu realized that the tens of millions of foreign immigrants who were currently triggering the social crisis in Britain initially seemed to be the legacy of the collapse of the British Empire.

Although Indians, blacks, Southeast Asians and Chinese came to London as early as the end of the eighteenth century to study, work, live and struggle in the "shijie capital" at that time, it was only a drop in the ocean compared to the entire population of Britain. And many Zuihou are still going home to their own homes, rather than settling down in London. In addition to adding a bit of internationalism to London. It didn't cause too many social problems.

The real problem of the imbalance in the population of British society as a whole originated in the forties and fifties of the twentieth century, when the British Empire's Shijie colonial system began to crumble - with the lowering of the rice flag in the colonies. The troops, civilians, and expatriates originally stationed in the overseas colonies withdrew to Britain itself, and thousands of local natives who had served the colonial government of the British Empire and had long assisted the British colonial army in suppressing and ruling their own compatriots - in the words of the Chinese were "traitors" - because they feared that after the independence of the colonies, they would be liquidated by the new nationalist government, and they also packed their belongings, dragged their families and fled their homeland, and moved to Britain with their British masters.

On the other hand, although under the crushing of the two giants of the United States and the Soviet Union. The small-bodied British donkey (Churchill's self-deprecation) had to give up his Shijie empire, but initially dreamed of a comeback one day. Coupled with the tragic World War II, which brought a staggering number of deaths to Britain, caused a shortage of labor...... So. The British government is very lenient towards these loyal minions, as well as the leading party that is indispensable in the event of a counter-offensive one day, and makes it easy for them to apply for citizenship.

Thereupon. Indigenous people of India, Malaya, Hong Kong, West Africa, South Africa, and other former British Empire colonies. With the retreating British colonial officials and troops, a steady stream of British colonial officials and troops poured into the British Isles, resulting in the so-called "reverse colonization" phenomenon.

Something similar happened in the United States - at the end of the protracted Vietnam War and the final collapse of the South Vietnamese regime, the United States had to hold its nose to accept a large number of South Vietnamese fugitives to prevent them from being liquidated by the Viet Cong, which eventually led to the immigration of nearly two million Vietnamese to the United States.

In a word. For those Western countries that are a little more disciplined, the colonies and semi-colonies located in the distance. Not only is it a symbol of wealth, profit, and power, but it is also a source of trouble, drag, and obligation.

To get back to the point, although the total number of foreign immigrants who moved into Britain in the fifties and sixties was not particularly large, they were particularly conspicuous because they were generally concentrated in major cities such as London, Manchester and Birmingham. In addition, although the British Empire is over, the imperial specter of the "British Commonwealth" still exists, and the "special relationship" between the Commonwealth countries makes it relatively easy for people to move between these former colonial countries and Britain itself. So, after the first large-scale emigration was successfully laid, they soon continued to import their relatives and friends into Britain...... Zuihou simply shoved an elephant into the pinhole, causing the number of foreign immigrants in Britain to swell rapidly.

During this period, the population structure of the United Kingdom began to age, and there was a shortage of young and middle-aged labor, and one of the most effective countermeasures adopted by the British government at that time was to use international migration to supplement the shortage of human resources. This measure has indeed alleviated the shortage of social labor for a certain period of time and avoided the decline caused by the aging of the population, but the resulting consequences are also serious.

First of all, Britain's original national attributes are relatively single, there are many remnants of feudal aristocratic traditions, and it has never become a "melting pot of all ethnic groups", and its ability to accept and digest immigrants of all ethnic groups is much worse than that of its former colony, the United States.

Although they are English-speaking countries in the same vein, and Shijie overlords who have ruled the earth one after another, the social atmosphere of the United States and Britain is completely different.

The United States is a young country and a nation of immigrants, inherently fickle and compatible, with less history and more room for social upside – at least in the early days, and has always had a tradition of absorbing immigrants from all over Shijie, not paying much attention to clichΓ©s like blood.

However, Britain is an ancient (as opposed to the United States) small country and nation-state, and it also has a thousand-year-old monarchical aristocracy, a strong legacy of bloodlines, family concepts, and a relatively rigid and rigid social class - in fact, the so-called "advanced" Britain is still a legal aristocratic state to this day. Under the king, there were more than 1,000 large and small princes, dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, barons, ecclesiastical nobles, court nobles, etc. The House of Lords, composed of more than 1,000 people, and the House of Commons (House of Commons), elected by the remaining 80 million people, are theoretically equal, and together they form the center of British politics.

In the heyday of the British Empire, the House of Lords used to have much more power than the House of Commons. Even today, when the aristocracy is seriously declining. The House of Lords also remains an important part of British politics. The division between the aristocracy and the commoners has always been an important feature of British history, culture and politics. One of the major characteristics of the aristocratic tradition is the closed social circle and the extreme emphasis on blood and family lineage......

Therefore. Even at the height of the British Empire, Britain's high cultural circle, dominated by the old aristocracy, was unable to integrate the social elites of the colonies of India, Burma, West Africa, Malaya, and Egypt as its own. And in view of the fact that these "noble bloodlines" in the upper house cannot be defiled, it is even more impossible to stuff Indian princes and Burmese chieftains into the British aristocratic circle through marriage and other means.

-- Just looking at the conquest of the island of Great Britain by England for so many years, it is impossible to merge even the Irish and Scots, who are close at hand. Even the weakest of the Welsh, who still retain a certain degree of independence, shows how poor the British's ability to integrate is.

The only liliang that the British Empire could rely on overseas was the British army, which consisted of Anglo-Saxons. The use of the indigenous colonial army had to be done with caution - the history of the British Indian colony came to an end after a mass coup d'Γ©tat by the indigenous army of India.

(Many mistakenly believe that Gandhi's pleas moved the British government to allow India to become independent.) But did not notice the Indian mutiny of the same period. οΌ‰

Throughout. The English have never been able to solve the problem of national identity within their borders. The burden can only be unloaded by abandoning the country.

On the contrary, those conglomerates and political families in the United States, although they also have a closed and conservative side, but in terms of origin, they are common to all ethnic groups in Europe, and there is nothing "noble" about them, and their historical origins are much shorter than those of the British aristocracy, and they are naturally more dynamic than those of the British aristocracy.

In a word. When it comes to discrimination and exclusion against foreign immigrants, the traditional British are not much better than the Japanese.

So. When foreign immigrants gain a foothold in Britain and begin to want to enter the British high society and fight for political rights, they will find themselves discriminated against wherever they go, and the repression and repression they endure are simply unimaginable, and there is no feasible breakthrough - wealth can be earned, fame can be accumulated, religious beliefs can be changed by pinching their noses, but what about skin color and blood?

If it is a docile Chinese and Indian, they may be able to swallow their anger when they encounter such unreasonable treatment, but those hot-tempered Muslims who have been wronged and encounter the wave of revival of Islamic fundamentalism in Shijie may not be so easy to stop......

Second, when the British were absorbing international immigrants and filling the labor shortage caused by the aging population, not only the much-needed labor force came in, but all kinds of mosquitoes and flies also came in -- the large influx of black and Arab communities in Britain not only brought a huge impact on the traditional conservative British society in terms of religious beliefs and living customs, but also greatly increased the frequency of drug-related and violent crimes......

For example, among the more than 2.5 million American prisoners, at least half of them are blacks -- it is no exaggeration to say that many foreign immigrants who are still lazy and lazy live their daily lives in Britain to receive benefits and commit all kinds of crimes, thus triggering widespread hostility among white Britons.

Before the financial turmoil swept through the West and the social economy fell into recession, the British government could barely reconcile the relationship between old residents and new immigrants with social welfare and multicultural policies - using official means to enforce mutual respect and tolerance between different cultures within a country, so that people with very different linguistic and cultural aspects could coexist in the same city - but it could not stop white Britain from moving out of the big cities, just as white Americans moved to suburban villas and ceded the slums in the urban areas to blacks.

Then, as an unimaginable financial storm swept across the UK, government finances plunged, factories closed, shops closed, and more and more people were unemployed at home. In order to compete for dwindling jobs, the tension between the British poor and foreign immigrants has heated up dramatically.

And the main culprits of this disaster, the banking conglomerates that have stirred up trouble in the midst of the financial turmoil, are also working on it, deliberately stirring up ethnic contradictions and creating ethnic conflicts in order to divert the attention of the people - otherwise. The hatred of the people will be concentrated on these financial vampires, and the best response is to find a more targeted target to put out the fire of the people: for the ruling class, national contradictions are always stronger than class contradictions.

So far. Increasing turmoil and chaos inevitably enveloped the whole of London, and indeed the whole of Britain......

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β€œβ€¦β€¦ Weishenme will have so many Indians and Muslims settled in London? And how will the British right be so unabashedly hostile to us? You only have to look through the history books to understand this question -- how did you Chinese get to the United States to build railroads in the nineteenth century? And after the completion of the railway project, what is the image of Chinese workers in the United States? What kind of cruelty was he subjected to? ”

Slowly squirming on the bus, Rahman from Pakistan. While drinking mineral water, Abbas chatted with Wang Qiu, Wang Yao, and the people of the "China Strange Ability Organization Tour Group" about current events in the United Kingdom. β€œβ€¦β€¦ Heathrow Airport, where you just got off the plane, was built by Indian and Pakistani labourers. They did the meanest, hardest jobs in Britain, and lived in the dirtiest, most dilapidated neighborhoods. Sending my children to school in the cheapest national neighborhood every day, making an appointment for three weeks to see a doctor when I am sick, and getting paid is shrinking month by month...... Zuihou is regarded by the British as a parasite who comes to take advantage! And the culprit who causes all the disasters and bad luck!! Is there any reason for this?!! ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but have a hint of anger in his tone. and a bit of ridicule. β€œβ€¦β€¦ What do my compatriots say that rob them of their jobs? It is clear that the British are lazy and picky, and they refuse to do this, and they refuse to do that - although the colonies have been lost, and the armored forces and the Grand Fleet have been destroyed, these proud British gentlemen still regard themselves as the largest power in Europe, based on the glory of the British Empire, and the nobility in their bones has not been shaken by the economic crisis. For example, although it is difficult to find a job right now. But I have a cousin who recently emigrated here, and it was easy to find a job selling broadband internet in London. This job requires constant door-to-door visits. They also had to be treated coldly by others, and their salaries were meager, so no white British man was willing to do it, because they looked down on it, felt that they had lost their status, and could only hire foreign immigrants.

Two days ago, a British college student was unemployed at home for almost a year, and he really had no choice but to apply for a job at the company where my cousin worked, and he was immediately hired by his British boss. Who knew that this guy refused to do it on the first day of his probationary period, on the grounds that this job had to run outdoors every day, and it was not a job that a British should do - listen, it was not a job that a British should do! So what else do they want to do? Continue to enjoy the offerings of shijie?! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ That one...... Comrade Rahman, since the British have treated you so unkindly, and have not even been guaranteed security, why should your compatriots continue to emigrate to England? Wang Qiu blinked his eyes and asked, and then got a sharp rhetorical question:

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Nineteenth-century Americans treated Chinese laborers badly, so should the Chinese continue to immigrate to the United States? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Because at that time, the living environment in late Qing China was even worse, and it was almost impossible to survive...... Is your country so miserable? Wang Qiu said.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The entire South Asian subcontinent is so miserable, a little comrade from China. My hometown of Pakistan is certainly in turmoil, with explosions at two ends in three days, and everyone is not even guaranteed to be safe - I remember a Chinese construction team that came to my hometown of Peshawar to repair a signal station once complained that their construction site was full of bunkers and gunfire, and it was not like they were engaged in engineering, but they were guarding the mines in a StarCraft game!

As for India...... Do you know? In rural India, the most terrifying thing is the wave of peasant suicides, every year, there are some places in India due to floods, droughts, pests and diseases, etc., resulting in crop failure, causing famine. These famines were large and small, and if they were small famines, the peasants would have to borrow usury, and even have to sell their wives and daughters; As for the Great Famine, the peasants really couldn't eat, so they would commit suicide en masse. ”

Rahman said with some disdain, "...... Usually, tens of thousands of disaster-stricken peasants commit suicide every year across the country, and they are really cowards who lack the sense of resistance! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ With so many people starving to death, doesn't the Indian government care? Someone interjected in surprise.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ There was still a lot of relief food allocated, but the local priests, nobles, and landlords were so large that most of the relief supplies could not reach the untouchables, and it would be nice to be able to leak a tenth of them through their fingers. ”

Rahman shrugged, "...... What's more, Indian officials may wish that these untouchables would die more! The growing population has driven grassroots officials crazy, and the resulting security, environmental, and health problems cannot be solved. In their opinion, if they can't find a way to get rid of some of the 'superfluous people', many places will become hell...... Tell me, in such a desperate environment, for the poor, I am afraid there are few more ways out than to emigrate overseas! And given the special relationship between the countries of the Commonwealth, it is relatively easier for us Pakistanis and Indians to emigrate to the UK than to emigrate to other countries......"

Then, between their small talk and sighs, the bus finally drove to London's Chinatown.

And in another corner of the city, the Knights of Nelson, an extreme xenophobic organization, also made a "triumphant return" from Hyde Park...... (To be continued......)