COMMENTARY: ‘When in Rome’
By Dickson Igwe, Contributor
The analogy is simple enough. If you allow a family into your home ensure their lifestyle, habits and behaviors are compatible with those of your own family.
On the other hand, if the family you invite are hostile, with habits and behaviors that are incompatible with those of your family, trouble lies ahead.
In the UK, The Reform Movement promises to deport millions of migrants especially Moslems from Pakistan and Afghanistan, who are seen as socially and culturally incompatible to the British way of life.
The most popular Female Commentator in the Virgin Islands stated recently in regard to Virgin Islands migration that ‘’ not putting safeguards in place create a nightmare.’’ She further asserted that ‘’ the territory has lost grasp of its borders and policies.
She described the territory’s social infrastructure as overburdened. ‘’ You are bringing them in. You know they cannot afford private school. Where are they going? The public system.’’ She is right.
Uncontrolled migration is a slap in the face of the children and youth of the Virgin Islands.
We all stress concern for the plight of our Virgin Islands youth. We claim they cannot find work. They end up on scooters as soldiers for the drug cartels dying young or spending years incarcerated in Balsam Ghut.
Then there are the young women who cannot find husbands because Virgin Islands men are in strip bars mingling with migrants from specific countries, even marrying some of these women.
However, the most dangerous migrants are those who infiltrate the community to form parallel communities, forming their own businesses and community groups. We know that culture well in the Virgin Islands. Specific groups who want to isolate and lead a separate existence. This is what is happening in the UK. It is leading to increasing social tensions on the streets.
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A village in Nigeria is looking for its idi0t.
Julia got to be racist to got black Tommy Robinson with his shit.
You mean fat Tommy Robinson
It is evident that self hatred in this case is fostered by the overwhelming determined efforts for import and installation of those whose globall y known cultural habits and way of life are counter productive to the character of the BVIslanders. As expected this has had an adverse effect on quality of life and much resentment fear distrust and dislike against the one outstanding demographic that has created the disruption of civility in all aspects of life for which these Vi were recognized
,and which overwhelmingly contributed positively to its quality of life and successful economy.
Too much incompatibility has but only one outcome.
successful economy.
No village idiot here. You are making a whole lot of sense. The legacy of our youths are being derailed daily by our unchecked importation of labour.
We need a Government that will pass the requisite laws to secure these porous borders of ours. They come for vacation for two weeks and they are here 20 years later filing for Belonger status. They are brought from the Pacific because they know how to say, “Yes, Ma’am and No, Ma’am because they have no specialised training, most of them. For profit margins or why is this necessary? The problem is our size and them and their offsprings are more aggressive and assertive than our youths. We have to pray for these Virgin Islands.
So because their offspring are more driven and disciplined to succeed than our own. Rather than examining the underlying causes—such as whether we are holding our youth to sufficiently high standards—we instead attempt to legislate excellence i.e remove those that we preceive as competition.
What is notable, however, is that once these individuals achieve recognition on the global stage, we are often quick to claim them as our own.Sounds like an execellent remedy for further deterioration.
Quit your stupidity. just a set of opportunist butt kissers. Give them residency permits for 5 years and then send them back to their hovels.
Most of those Virgin Islanders and Anguillans will be dead when this problem hits. They are bringing in these people for what? A few extra dollars profit. We are such a short-sighted people. This country will be unrecognizable in a few years- and it is our children who will inherit the mess – Stupes
Jackass