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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Those white people voted to get out of the EU largely because they don't like the influx of immigrants.
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The vast majority of those immigrants are white Poles, Hungarians, Croatia, and other Eastern Europeans.
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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Much like the US, these people want to return to a time where being white meant you got special treatment. These are people who are bothered by seeing minorities sharing the things they've always enjoyed.
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This may be one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen on this forum. In the old days these people pine for virtually everyone in the UK was white. What possible special treatment would a white person in Yorkshire in 1962 receive if everyone who lived and worked in his community was white?
You're betraying a stupefying ignorance by projecting the American racial experience onto the UK.
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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
This is just very simplistic, even if you kind of buy the anti-immigrant line we are talking about eu immigrants like Greeks, Poles, Hungarians, Croatians, and so on. These people are very white. Yes some people have always been resistant to immigrants taking away their jobs, they need them to survive, but it is literally not a black/white issue.
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Exactly. It's kinda funny but also kinda pathetic to see so many who clearly haven't a clue about the UK or the EU making such sweeping judgements.
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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Except the "old way" is mono(white) culture.
Don't kid yourself, for most, veiled racism is 100% the reason they voted against this.
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Nativism might be the main reason for a lot of people - keeping in mind that means being suspicious of the French, Poles, Czechs, etc. Nativism in the UK is not only (or even mainly) a racial thing. But we need to keep in mind that the EU isn't a popular institution in most of its member countries. Think about how Albertans would feel about more and more political power being centralized in Ottawa. Now imagine if Ottawa was in a foreign country, with a far more bloated and far less efficient bureaucracy.