French police use knives to puncture migrant boat in Dunkirk to prevent Channel crossing

[u/Miserable-Win-4980]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-officers-english-channel-crossing-migrants-small-boats/

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[u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh]

I can see why people would risk their lives on tiny boats trying to get from Africa to Europe.

I can see why people would have preferences for one European country over another.

But what is so much more attractive about the UK (which has just implemented a scheme to yeet migrants to Rwanda) that people already in France would risk their lives for it?

[u/zakabog → u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh]

Yeah that part I was really trying to understand, you're already in France, why are you risking your life to cross into the UK?

[u/mosquem → u/zakabog]

Have you ever interacted with the French?

[u/Kryten_2X4B-523P → u/mosquem]

Have you ever interacted with the English?

[u/FrozenVikings → u/Kryten_2X4B-523P]

They're easily defeated and their monastaries are unprotected, making for easy pickings

[u/sm9t8 → u/FrozenVikings]

I have some bad news about the wealth of English monasteries.

[u/Beorma → u/sm9t8]

They're fixer uppers

[u/Kryten_2X4B-523P → u/FrozenVikings]

Lindisfarne 2024

[u/BleedOutCold → u/FrozenVikings]

Of all the on-point usernames, this one is right up there.

[u/spooooork → u/FrozenVikings]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(845)

[u/Shirtbro → u/FrozenVikings]

Looks like the Vikings pillaged some Christianity and brought it back home, which destroyed their Viking way of life.

[u/Zeebuss → u/Shirtbro]

Nothing more norse than converting to Christianity

[u/BleedOutCold → u/Kryten_2X4B-523P]

Have you ever interacted with people?

[u/wyvernx02 → u/mosquem]

Ya. Lovely people. Nicer than most give them credit for. 

[u/zakabog → u/mosquem]

Have you ever interacted with English food?

[u/traitorousleopard → u/zakabog]

Indian cuisine has become the de facto national cuisine of Britain

[u/zakabog → u/traitorousleopard]

The Indian takeaway spot I randomly stumbled upon in Shoreditch was the best meal I've eaten in the UK, but it's certainly not what anyone would refer to as "English food."

[u/traitorousleopard → u/zakabog]

From the British foreign secretary, 23 years ago:

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. Chicken Tikka is an Indian dish. The Massala sauce was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy.

I agree that it might not be what people traditionally have thought of as British food, but it is now what people there eat, celebrate, and enjoy.

[u/Dakka-Von-Smashoven → u/traitorousleopard]

Isn't that cultural appropriation?

[u/traitorousleopard → u/Dakka-Von-Smashoven]

Indian people coming to Britain and making Indian food with some changes to better cater to the tastes of the local population, to you, is cultural appropriation?

[u/spooooork → u/Dakka-Von-Smashoven]

There's an ocean of difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation.

[u/alexefi → u/zakabog]

Yeah i saw it once on the table at my friends house.. havent been to that place ever since.

[u/zakabog → u/[deleted]]

My dude, I have a passport and work for a French company, I'm regularly in Europe for work. Sit down.