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Post by hhsussex on Jun 7, 2016 11:39:43 GMT
A really good article here www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36461853 on how the flood of migrants into Europe from Afghanistan and other points has brought cricket with them to Germany. I love this quote from a young German girl, about understanding the rules of the game as explained to her by a Pakistani: "It's something we didn't have here in Germany. But we can learn something about the game and about other cultures. We can integrate them into our culture and everybody learns from everyone." Cricket as a metaphor for non-isolationist life. Discuss. |
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Post by fraudster on Jun 8, 2016 21:44:59 GMT
I wonder if the German boys will learn from the asylum seekers and not sit on the same table as Christian girls as well. I'd rather learn from Satan's a**e-hole myself.
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 9, 2016 6:35:22 GMT
I wonder if the German boys will learn from the asylum seekers and not sit on the same table as Christian girls as well. I'd rather learn from Satan's a**e-hole myself. I'm a bit perplexed at the first sentence here. Where in the BBC report is there any such statement and what kind of relevance does that have to a story about how cricket is providing one form of integration to a new culture, and also helping that culture to understand a game from outside its own traditions? Your second sentence provides a clue to why, in another post ( unofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/18532), you say "I find people on here less willing to engage actually." What kind of response do you expect to get, other than Grow up and stop posturing? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 9:01:19 GMT
I'd like to see Sussex CCC reach out to the Brighton and Hove branch of the City of Sanctuary nationwide network: brighton-and-hove.cityofsanctuary.org/It seeks to "celebrate the contribution of those that have come here for safety" and to "reduce isolation, fear, and exclusion". Businesses and organisations in Brighton and Hove are invited "to pledge your support to the movement and get involved in any way that feels right for you." I suggested Sussex CCC should get invovled last year and that it coule be beneficial to the club as well as to the asylum seekers and refugees living in the vicinity, but sadly the club was uninterested. This was the reply: "We receive literally hundreds/maybe thousands of requests for support each year and have tried to rationalise and prioritise. We are reaching some immigrant communities through Street20 and other ways." What I found most disappointing about that response from Jim May , I think, was that Sussex CCC apparently sees no distinction between "immigrant communities" (many of whom may be the second or third generation to be born in Britain) and the needs of newly-arrived refugees and asylum-seekers. The Street20 reference is to this: www.sussexcricket.co.uk/street20 |
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Post by fraudster on Jun 11, 2016 7:31:26 GMT
I wonder if the German boys will learn from the asylum seekers and not sit on the same table as Christian girls as well. I'd rather learn from Satan's a**e-hole myself. I'm a bit perplexed at the first sentence here. Where in the BBC report is there any such statement and what kind of relevance does that have to a story about how cricket is providing one form of integration to a new culture, and also helping that culture to understand a game from outside its own traditions? Your second sentence provides a clue to why, in another post ( unofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/18532), you say "I find people on here less willing to engage actually." What kind of response do you expect to get, other than Grow up and stop posturing? Ah, reminds me of the old board. You got me HH, pants down and red handed. You know me though, I'm all about balance. Yours is a nice positive story about asylum seekers and mine is a nasty negative one. The relevance is AS, careful, in Germany and it's a story from a link on your article about the good and bad of mass immigration in Germany. The good being lovely little stories like yours, and the bad being nasty little things like Muslim boys not accepting females or Christianity, and fighting each other because they can't agree on who the Messiah is and what he stands for - bless 'em. I know what he stands for, that relates to my last sentence. |
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