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I didn't even know this show existed... I like Channel 4, especially its dedication to British comedy however it's current trend of trashy reality and documentaries are going a tad too far such as Benefits Street and The Undatables which pretend to be positively showing the other life where in reality they're just taking the proverbial piss out of the individuals simply because it's a current media frenzy
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Thread: Protests over Immigration Street
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2015-01-31, 02:05 PM #1Deleted
Protests over Immigration Street
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2015-01-31, 02:15 PM #2The Undying
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Is the show inaccurate? Does it focus on the stereotypes? If the show is inaccurate and it becomes a hit I can see it harming the people it depicts. I would think the producers of the show would have an obligation to show people who are not living the stereotype, healthy well adjusted types. Then it would be okay to show the uneducated fundamentalist living in squalor with 14 kids.
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2015-01-31, 02:22 PM #3Titan
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"They have also handed in a petition of more than 1,000 signatures."
"Benefits Street received more than 1,700 complaints over a perceived negative portrayal of benefits claimants."
Cut to the british version of the FCC saying "As we all know, every complaint is one billion peoples thoughts!"You're a towel.
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2015-01-31, 02:39 PM #4Deleted
Ugh...i cringe everytime I see something about immigration in british news, because it's always the same point of view, the same nationality bashing, unresearched, biased crap that I've had to digest for almost 3 years. Now there is a show out there to grind my gears further.
I guess immigrants will NEVER be able to wash themselves of stereotypes no matter how hard they try to go against them.Last edited by mmoc438dc94cad; 2015-01-31 at 02:42 PM.
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2015-01-31, 02:41 PM #5The Insane
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Yeah, it's fucking terrible. A show gets 4 complaints out of ten million views and the BBC is forced to make an apology for offending somebody (instead of telling them to stop watching if they don't like it).
Originally Posted by Gumboy
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2015-01-31, 02:47 PM #6DeletedTBF it's pretty much like that in any country Originally Posted by Undead Puppy
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2015-01-31, 02:57 PM #7Deleted
Why are some idiots always trying to use something that is "popular"?
Je suis un immigrant?
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2015-01-31, 03:43 PM #8Deleted
It would be nice if one of these shows portrayed immigration in a good light. Take my next door neighbours; both hard working, full time employed as nurses, children, English speaking & generally integrated well... but no, we all know this is going to be the worst of the worst and trashy AF to get anti-foreigner types whipped into a frenzy.
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2015-01-31, 03:47 PM #9Stood in the Fire
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The series is based on people living in the city's Derby Road, which the TV station calls "ethnically diverse".
Let them broadcast it, there is no issue. Don't like it? Don't watch it.
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2015-01-31, 04:10 PM #10The Undying
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It could well be that she is actually French - we have a lot of them despite my protests to Westminster. Originally Posted by b2121945
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2015-01-31, 04:36 PM #11DeletedDoesn't change a bit of what I said. She wouldn't use that sentence before the shooting. Originally Posted by Kalis
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2015-01-31, 05:11 PM #12The Undying
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It's just French for "I am an immigrant" and being held up by a little old white lady to break the stereotype people usually have of immigrants. I associate it more with Spartacus (Kirk Douglas version). Originally Posted by b2121945
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2015-01-31, 05:21 PM #13The Undying
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I'd appreciate some balance instead of a black and white view of things. In the US, we have wildly productive immigrant populations and wildly unproductive immigrant populations. There's no need to pick one side.
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2015-01-31, 06:08 PM #14Deleted
This thread is skewed in the wrong way because the op used the word immigrant and associated the topic with benefit claimants.
This thread is about benefit claimants some of whom are also immigrants.
There is no room for discussion about productive immigrants in this thread because that's not what the topic is about.
I feel sad that this thread will ultimately lead to people to excusing immigrant benefit claimants because of productive immigrants.
People will naturally mix their viewpoints up because the op has mixed the subject matter up.
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