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See link. Mrs Philips whose family comes from Poloand whose first name is French in origins using apostrophes that were derived from the French language and who most likely has an iphone built by a company (Apple) whose founder (ie Steve Jobs) was the grandson of a Syrian named Abdul.
But am sure my fellow posters have even more to say about this matter...
And yes the grandson of a Syrian named Abdul did fundamentally alter the culture of Britain, not entirely positive with all those damn hipsters on that ipod/iphone/ipad tinkering away at their inspiration. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGH!!!!!
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Mad old trout. Can't be arsed reading her crap, sorry.
Bruno: You should, it skewers her views on this subject rather well.
Being an immigrant does not automatically make one sympathetic to others. Mr Monkey's dad was an economic migrant who came here for a better job, got married and had five children. He retained his thick Galway accent until the day he died and rarely socialised outside of the local Irish social club and church.
However he would treat us all to regular rants about immigrants who come over here , take jobs, have loads of children and never integrate.
However he would treat us all to regular rants about immigrants who come over here , take jobs, have loads of children and never integrate.
The Steve Jobs fact (ie that he was the child of a Syrian) was unknown to me and one I intend to use in future whenever I encountered bigoted trolls posting about 'them worthless Arabs'.
Michael Portillo is another example.
FleurDuMal: Not many people know this but one of Seinfeld's aunts come from Aleppo (ie a Syrian).
Also Michael Howard
Howard was born in Gorseinon in the northwest of Swansea, Wales. He is the son of Bernat Hecht, who was born in Romania and came to Britain in 1939.[2] His mother, Hilda (Kershion), lived in Wales from the age of 6 months. Both of Howard's parents were from Jewish families and Howard is a practising Jew.[3][4] When Howard was six, the family name, Hecht, was anglicized to Howard.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Howard
Bad example though, he is worthless.
Bojo's granddad was Turkish.
Not many people also know that Frank Zappa was of Lebanese descent.
That's another pesky Arab.
And then there's Saatchi and Saatchi.
Fact is even though there has been alot of descendents of immigrants who turned to be horrible persons
<Coughs 'Melanie Philips>
There's been alot of talented people also.
Lebanese people can get married now.
They don't have to marry Melanie, mind.
< There's been a lot of talented people also. >
Very true, and even the less talented include a vast majority of AOK people.