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Originally Posted by sraL
Interesting dog in a stable post... I was talking to someone recentkt about immigration and he said if someone's born in Somalia, then gets naturalised as British, that doesn't make them a Brit any more than a dog born in a stable is then a horse.
Weird how these two things both came up recently, I'd never heard that before his rant/your post
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Yeh its one of the few times i've been able to use it in a positive light. Its normally a go to for people with a racist agenda. I think the way i used it works tbh i literally used different animals and habitat as a metaphor for other animals and habitats.
The racist angle doesn't really work. Can't help but point out we are usually seen as the "noble" horse and the immigrant is used as the "lowly" dog.
A more fair version would be just because an Arabian horse sleeps in an Andalusian horse stable doesn't make it an Arabic horse. As we are all people, just slightly different genetically and sometimes characteristically (culturally). We ultimately have the same use of the stable and the same ability to make use of it.
..but that's all a bit much for Dave from down pub using it as a segway to making you watch his latest Britain first clip.