17 Brit tourists nicked for pretending to be nuns

[colonel]

Moral here. You don't get that in Barry Island.

If you don't want to be arrested, stay at home in Britain.

[max_tranmere]

JRPornstar, I agree with what you say. There are some places in the world, Saudi Arabia for example, where you will be jailed for owning a Bible, or if you're caught snogging someone in public. Yet people who come here can do what they like and WE are the ones in trouble if we are not willing to change everything to suit them. And our government wonder why some people are considering voting for extremist parties in the election this Thursday...

[Sam Slater]

[quote]I think you'll find that asylum seekers/visitors/guests dress the way they do because it is part of their culture, which they should rightly be allowed to express in a free society. It's totally different from a horde of pissed-up tourists who have NO respect for the morals of the society they are holidaying in and behave in a lewd and uncontrolled way in public.[/quote]

I biased view. Like it or not one could argue that getting pissed and acting silly is just as much part of British culture as any traits/rules immigrants from other cultures bring here.

I don't agree with JRPornstar, necessarily, but generalising about the British abroad is just as wrong as generalising about any foreign national over here. I know Muslims that want to wear western clothing, and do. I also know plenty of Brits that don't go abroad to get pissed and cause mayhem (I am one of them!).

JRPornstar is correct when he alludes to different nations that aren't as tolerant as they expect us to be. However, -and this is to you JR- just because a nation is intolerant of other cultures that doesn't mean we have to lower ourselves to the same level just so you feel like we've 'evened up' the score.

[Sam Slater]

I wasn't comparing Saudi Arabia to modern day Britain, Reggie (though there's nothing wrong with doing so). I was just pointing out that generalising about the Brits abroad isn't helpful if you want to argue with JRPornstar and his generalisations about Muslims in Britain.

If your argument is sound then you should be able to get your points across in a fairer, less hypocritical way.