I am not surprised but I am nevertheless disturbed that not one of - TopicsExpress



          

I am not surprised but I am nevertheless disturbed that not one of my fb friends picked up the obvious fallacy in this report I shared yesterday. A British passport is merely a travel document that can only be granted to British citizens and therefore, a foreigner cannot be granted a British passport. I am not surprised because the English media constantly makes reference to "British passport holders" rather than "British citizens" when alluding to people the media regards as "foreigners", thereby suggesting these people are not quite British. This helps to create xenophobic attitudes. I attended a conference a while ago where it emerged that independent research had shown that 80% of English people who had xenophobic attitudes confessed to having these attitudes because of what they had read in newspapers and not as a result of personal experience.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:14:46 +0000

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