These are fairly predictable but I would recommend reading the whole "Ask a Filipino" article.
Ask a Filipino: "I noticed there is not only little-to-zero intermixing among races, classes or religions, there’s in fact noticeable antipathy among members of these racial, social and religious groups. "Us versus them" is a recurring thread. Even a supposedly non-violent British protest is shocking to the uninitiated, with banners proclaiming "Death to the Queen" fairly common."
New York Times: "As the budget cuts take hold, risk of unemployment increases and social measures like youth projects are sacrificed, Mr. Beech said, and “all logic says there will be an increase in antisocial behavior.”
Times of India: "Tottenham has a large number of ethnic minorities and includes areas with the highest unemployment rates in London. It also has a history of racial tension with local young people, especially blacks, resenting police behaviour including the use of stop and search powers."
The Egyptian Gazette: "The deep seated problems, which face British society will not be solved overnight. The criminal behaviour of young hooligans needs to be condemned and brought under control, but the issues facing Britain, which they raise go much deeper than setting shops on fire. Where once the family was the backbone of the nation, now television soap operas in Britain present as normal every kind of abnormal behaviour. Where once it was natural to look up to older people and to contribute one’s best to society, now it is normal to insist on individual human rights, no matter what influence that has on society as a whole. Religion is no longer even to be talked about."
Moscow Times: "The policeman who pulled the trigger on Duggan had only one child, whereas Duggan fathered four. The world can probably tolerate a ratio of one gangster for every policeman. But if in the next generation there will be four Duggans for every policeman, that will mean the end of law and order."
Tehran Times: "But while those in the Middle East have marched in the hope of positive change, Britain's violence has been almost nihilist, focused on looting and a quick burst of the sort of publicity and power inner-city youth feel they have long been denied."
Asia Times: "If there is no absence of ability to address basic needs and the environment exists for hardworking people to succeed, why then are the rioters in London showing their ingratitude towards the welfare state? The question boils down to one of negative and positive reinforcement strategies: for too long the left in Europe have argued that society's failures must be embraced rather than cast out for life's hard knocks. The burning shops of London are proof that leftist thinking is dangerously wrong - the rioters aren't sated by the welfare state, they are spoiled by it."
Ask a Filipino: "I noticed there is not only little-to-zero intermixing among races, classes or religions, there’s in fact noticeable antipathy among members of these racial, social and religious groups. "Us versus them" is a recurring thread. Even a supposedly non-violent British protest is shocking to the uninitiated, with banners proclaiming "Death to the Queen" fairly common."
New York Times: "As the budget cuts take hold, risk of unemployment increases and social measures like youth projects are sacrificed, Mr. Beech said, and “all logic says there will be an increase in antisocial behavior.”
Times of India: "Tottenham has a large number of ethnic minorities and includes areas with the highest unemployment rates in London. It also has a history of racial tension with local young people, especially blacks, resenting police behaviour including the use of stop and search powers."
The Egyptian Gazette: "The deep seated problems, which face British society will not be solved overnight. The criminal behaviour of young hooligans needs to be condemned and brought under control, but the issues facing Britain, which they raise go much deeper than setting shops on fire. Where once the family was the backbone of the nation, now television soap operas in Britain present as normal every kind of abnormal behaviour. Where once it was natural to look up to older people and to contribute one’s best to society, now it is normal to insist on individual human rights, no matter what influence that has on society as a whole. Religion is no longer even to be talked about."
Moscow Times: "The policeman who pulled the trigger on Duggan had only one child, whereas Duggan fathered four. The world can probably tolerate a ratio of one gangster for every policeman. But if in the next generation there will be four Duggans for every policeman, that will mean the end of law and order."
Tehran Times: "But while those in the Middle East have marched in the hope of positive change, Britain's violence has been almost nihilist, focused on looting and a quick burst of the sort of publicity and power inner-city youth feel they have long been denied."
Asia Times: "If there is no absence of ability to address basic needs and the environment exists for hardworking people to succeed, why then are the rioters in London showing their ingratitude towards the welfare state? The question boils down to one of negative and positive reinforcement strategies: for too long the left in Europe have argued that society's failures must be embraced rather than cast out for life's hard knocks. The burning shops of London are proof that leftist thinking is dangerously wrong - the rioters aren't sated by the welfare state, they are spoiled by it."
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