Xenophobic Britain drives foreign students away public hysteria and paranoia over immigration

It is indescribable what is happening to England. I wouldnt even dare say Britain. And even England is such a strong approximation for I dont believe that all English people share the views Im about to distill, but it is in England that Ive been sensing spontaneous and punctual acts of hatred towards migrant workers. Im not talking about Sports Direct or even Amazon, Im talking about going to the barber shop and the dentist. Two activities that in their nature should be harmless and plain simple to the extent of going in, being seen, paying up and leaving out. Wait!, thats it, the pay up part is whats really upsetting most of the fellows I have been sensing that. Suddenly for them I am the adequate receptacle of the constant moaning towards migrants, borders policies, the EU treaties and the incapability of British governments to stand up to I-dont-know-who-and-why. In all sums, Xenofobia and nothing else.

When I seek for the professional help of a dentist and suddenly from the entrance door, to the pain chair, and then back again to the pay counter I am greeted with "... the problem is that migrants come here and they dont have to pay for their treatments... and the government think that NHS can pay for everything, well it cannot... and the migrants come here and ask for treatments...". The same exact thing happened on my journey to the hairdresser, the same moaning, my same red hears to engulf this profound discontentment of the English workers towards the migrants that I happen to be one of.

Are this people insane or havent they noticed that I am no David Cameroon. I am not a political representative of your country. I am a person that happened to leave the house where I pay rent, to get in the car with petrol, insurance and car parking associated to high taxation taken from me (and I am not complaining at all), I used a service that the government for some reason believe should be made free for me, whether it is because I have a son, I am a student or just because my monthly wage doesnt even reach nowadays the minimum wage... and suddenly these people think I am the one to retrieve their political complaints and somehow take these long sentences of pure Ignorance (thats it) to the House of Commons/Lords, I dont know what??!! 

Are these people mentally challenged or just xenophobic? I am not even going to profess the immense oblivion that is having to listen to all that without feeling disgusted. History shows that the biggest powers in Europe have STOLEN, LITERALLY STOLEN from everywhere in the world with brutal force, ignominy, tremendous greed and inflicted terror, and when a migrant comes to England seeking for a better life he is shown intolerance? I am Portuguese, therefore I havent broken any rules in coming to England and looking for a better life. Whenever I asked for state support when I most needed, the governmental services had the chance to say no - NO, WE WONT HELP YOU! No one imposed altruism on them. It emerged from the need to dignify workers and citizens as in any other EU country that did sign for these practices to be applied.

My hairdresser spends more time complaining about Muslims and Chinese people than paying attention to my style requests. Then he goes on and on about the migrants from Europe. Hasnt he noticed that most of the people that actually sustain his business are students from Middle Eastern countries, Asian countries and European countries? Is everyone ignorant about the millions that are put in the English economy by students, researchers and other professionals that travel to England for whatever reason and bring their best talents to make this country the strong economy that we see?

My dentists receptionist complains that I take money from the system and I see everyday migrants generating revenue for this country. Paid miserably in comparison to their physical and psychological exertion. Universities are piling up with students from all over the world that get money flowing at high rates in this country. Suddenly I am forced to believe that you are only a welcomed migrant and student and foreigner in this country if you bring the dough. PAY FOR YOUR DIGNITY is the system, and that cannot be that far away from NAZISM, Im sorry but its not that far-off.

Everyday we have doctors, science researchers, managers, pizza fillers, taxi drivers from many different countries doing their best and serving you with the best, saving lives, providing quality of life to everyone who uses their products and services. But the dentist, the receptionist and the hairdresser in England think that its the migrants fault the idiotic options different governments have been negotiating with their different social partners.

PAYING FOR DIGNITY RESEMBLES NAZISM AND XENOPHOBIA. Can please someone tell them that?

If a migrant, who some English people state cannot even speak proper English, takes away English peoples jobs so easily, than my friends something is profoundly wrong with that pool of skills. You can only understand what it is to be a migrant when you become one and wear his shoes. I dont agree with people being given without even trying to give back as there is a social synergy that needs fulfilling, but someone tell these people that that has not been the case. The scale needs balancing but its not the migrants fault. When a taxi driver saves your life the moment that ambulance came a bit too late, when you were having a heart attack, what will you tell this lad? And why do we always have to go to extremes to justify the need to dignified lives.

Its not the migrants fault, its globalization, poorly discussed and poorly played, but if you are scared just wait for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, we will be on each others necks until we all perish due to ignorance and stupidity.

1st Image taken from The Telegraph, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10304634/Xenophobic-Britain-drives-foreign-students-away-claims-professor.html]

2nd image taken from hercampus, [http://www.hercampus.com/school/u-mass-amherst/response-sears-nazi-ring-anything-fashion-statement].

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Jean Marie Le Pen Ebola epidemic would solve immigration problems

How many more opportunities will be given Jean Marie Le Pen (founder and honorary President of the French far-right wing National Front) to provoke chaos and feed a turmoil of plain racism and ignorance whenever he opens his mouth?

Jean Marie Le Pen states that "there is a demographic explosion in the world and a risk of submersion. A replacement (of the national population) is under way... Monsieur Ebola can solve the problem in three months." He then added that the French population is at risk of being replaced by immigrants, a tendency that can be seen throughout Europe and can be seen as a cataclysm, an invasion that has only started. Then he states that most of the so called invaders are Muslims, talks about the tendency in Islamic groups for conquering, and that numbers can pose a future threat.

I dont want to discuss politics here. We all know where policies are driving us to in Europe as in the rest of the World. We all know the positives and negatives of globalisation, and we all know that all cultures need to give and take in promoting world peace and harmony. If we are to live in peace there is a lot of work to do in offering everyone not only conditions for a better living, but also in feeding the notion that a better life standard comes with responsibilities. I wont go as far as Martin Luther King when saying that there will come a time we will all live as brothers. That is just so not going to happen in the coming 10 centuries! I think that what we have to promote is the idea that even though you might not see someone as your brother (and that is perfectly acceptable, dont beat yourself over that) you have to see it as an individual with the same HUMAN rights as you. Bear in mind that I am not talking about SOCIAL rights, but human rights. Social rights should be acquired, given to you when you embrace the pre-determined behaviour of a social group that, as a group, provides for the society as a whole. Human rights are inherited as your parents cells fuse. That is, at least, my opinion.

What I want to analyse is just some parts of Le Pens statement that might concern this blog as a science platform.

a) There is a demographic explosion in the world.

The human population has grown about ten-fold over the past 300 years and nearly four-fold in just the last century. However, there are signs that in our times the human population explosion is actually decreasing in rate, and several researchers assume that a decline will occur. [1]

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b) Ebola can solve the immigration problem in three months.

I need to use the words of two, can I call them experts?, in the studies of Environmental sustainability and Epidemics; Professor Melissa Leach and Amanda Teckman. I strongly beg you to read Professor Leachs interview concerning Ebola and Lassa, seen under the eye of the local populations, accessing here. 

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Amanda Teckman very wisely states that the greatest problem concerning Ebola is the possibility of the virus being used as a bioterrorist weapon. Her article entitled "The bioterrorist threat of Ebola in East Africa and implications for Global Health and Security" opens the discussion with a very sensitive point that has been neglected so far. She writes "Ebolas epidemiological makeup creates circumstances in which could spread quickly to ALL parts of the globe". [3] Not only Africa, but also France, Monsieur Le Pen. And she proceeds clarifying that "Global health and security are currently compromised because a vaccine has not been discovered to prevent and treat the virus and deter bioviolence". Unless Le Pen is planning to go all bioterrorist and attack Africans with Ebola on a scale and unprecedented thinking, preparation and focused aim, I see no logic in his words, if they were ever to be logical at all in the first place.

[1] The Encyclopaedia of Earth, Human population explosion, [http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/153596/], last visit on the 22nd May 2014, last update on the 26th of February 2014.

[2] World Health Organisation, Time to put Ebola in context, [http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/7/10-030710/en/], last visit on the 22nd of May 2014, last update on July 2010.

[3] Teckman, A (2013). "The bioterrorist threat of Ebola in East Africa and implications for global health and security". Global Policy Essay, pp. 1-15.

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