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I think a lot of these people might actually be racists.
I feel that about people restoring Victorian features as well! Except @Mickie_Cricket
Plus to be fair to that lady, there were no Muslims in the 50s, so thats period correct.
amey
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Our old upstairs neighbour lived in the 1950s. She wore 50s dresses, had a 50s boyfriend, had one of those little Nissans that are really a Micra but look 50s and went to tea dances and vintage fairs every weekend where she hung out with people who looked just like her. Her style was pretty much like the clothing brand owner from Bolton in that story. When she moved out she moved into a 30s art deco block she'd been trying to get a place in for ages by posting 50s postcards through the 50s letterboxes of the 50s inhabitants.
She claimed that the multigenerational Muslim family next door (who are lovely) were trying to poison her cats and refused to eat the food they brought round during Ramadan because she reckoned it wasn't safe or something, and was always accusing them of minor planning violations and other heinous crimes, even though they'd lived here for about 40 years more than she had.
What I'm trying to say is: I think a lot of these people might actually be racists.
Much conservatism is founded on a rose-tinted view of a past which never existed. They believe in halcyon days of vicars on bicycles cycling through chocolate box villages and stopping to chat with elderly spinsters. Cricket on the green and warm beer. The days when everyone was polite to each other and life was simpler. Entirely coincidentally I'm sure, these visions never seem to involve brown people (or black ones, for that matter).
By any objective measure the 1950s weren't better than today, they were much much worse.
Give me millennial minimalist wank any day!