Advice Packs

Defiant as I may sound since I am an immigrant and living in somebody else's country means living by their rules, but moves such as these from the Government are downright pitiful attempts at preserving the country's culture.

London is cosmopolitan, there are different people from all over the world which is what makes it so culturally and socially live. And I suppose, at some point in our lives, we all get cross at some new immigrant who tries to get on the train before people have got off or somebody who won't understand the language.

But being an immigrant, I know those are hard times and one learns them as they go along. I don't know enough to comment on London's culture now to say about 20 years ago but I have a feeling that the rude behaviour associated with Londoners is not down to increase in culturally different people as it is with a bigger population (which might be down to immigration).

But despite everything, in a manner similar to teaching values, settling into British Culture cannot be forced upon with the introduction of Migrant's Advice Packs.

In some ways, the ID cards, the Migrants' Advice Pack are humiliating.

Whilst the freedom of speech the single most important thing that makes Britain with its terribly grey weather more attractive than the Sunny skies of India with rigorous measures as these, I feel that perhaps living in this country would mean being subject to constant mortification of my thoughts, actions and being.

That everytime somebody talked about immigration and its effects, I would feel guilty for ruining their standard of life in a selfish move to improve my own standard of living.

That if I made a mistake while walking down a street of London now, somebody could just turn back at me and say: "Didn't you read your Migrants' Advice Pack?" I even foresee a point based system like driving licences for immigrants where if they accumulate too many points they will be deported on the grounds of being unable to integrate in the British Society.

And this is really what would prompt me to pack my bags and go back to my country - and perhaps, that's their whole point...