I love the work that John Cleese has done in the world of comedy he has made a splendid contribution to English comedy, but I am concerned about the views he so widely express. He has every right to make statements about what he feels but needs to think a little bit and not in a Monty Python sort of way.
He is not comfortable, allegedly, with the fact that London looks like a foreign city full of people from every part of the world. But he ignores the fact that most major and successful cities on the planet that mix and diversity. There were 200 languages spoken in Rome and as many in Constantinople. That is how it all works. Those who were asked to come here in the 50s to help reconstruct the country after the war worked hard to build the post war Britain up. And of course John would know that they then had children and their children are now having other children. That's how it works.
The success of New York city has a lot to do with that diversity again. So these are not new trends and John should know this.
The most serious thing that concerns me about his views is that he does not seem to understand the fact that he is being very hypocritical. He has been living in Los Angeles since 1990 so I would assume he can see that he himself is a foreigner in another country? Or is he saying that it is OK for an English person to immigrate but not for anyone else? Should someone from Los Angeles see him as a foreigner? Where does it all end? We live in a globalised economic system so this is the trend. Get over it John and stop thinking that you are any better than anyone else, embrace the fact that you are a foreign immigrant your self and be more understanding. And what about the half a million Brits to live in Spain and the 40,000 in Cyprus etc etc...
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