zukunftsangst wrote:
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
If I hadn't heard about it on the news, I wouldn't have noticed. It's pretty bad in some places, although nowhere near as bad as the Paris riots a few years ago, but London is a big city. In most places everything is going on exactly as normal.
As for the analysis of the riots, they're not racial, not religious, they're simply caused by long-term deprivation, unemployment, and lack of community cohesion in certain London suburbs. Add to that a healthy dose of opportunist consumerism, and that's the recipe. The shooting of that dude was the spark.
Having said that, it's not quite as bad as they make it out to be on the news.
As for the analysis of the riots, they're not racial, not religious, they're simply caused by long-term deprivation, unemployment, and lack of community cohesion in certain London suburbs. Add to that a healthy dose of opportunist consumerism, and that's the recipe. The shooting of that dude was the spark.
Having said that, it's not quite as bad as they make it out to be on the news.
I've heard there is a certain element of racial tension from multiple people I've talked to who live in London and the UK.
Not really, it's more economic.