The Editor, Sir:

I am shocked at how the recent emigrants from the West Indies to the United Kingdom view us who have been living and working very hard for many years. They think we have it very easy!

Most seem to be of the impression that they can just come and stay with some family member or friends and work and save all their money. They do not wish to contribute to the running of the home. They want the heating on at all times, leave the lights on and more than one at the same time, eat and drink as much as they want, come and go as if at a hotel, keep many friends and sexual partners, get their clothes washed, food cooked and yet do not want to even help clean the house.

Wake up

I would like to remind all the West Indians that leave their nice job or no job to come to England, to wake up to reality. I once wrote about 'Foreign nuh nice' in the Jamaica Star. Read it on the Net. My point is that most families here have worked hard for years to put all the latest and best of things in their home, be it the plasma/ sky TV, computer system and the BMW. Some are still being paid for.

Please be careful of what your expectations are when you go to any foreign country and be prepared to use your initiative to compromise on a lot of personal and other issues to get along in that country.

I am, etc.,

SAMUEL DUNMOODIE

sjtd1@tinyonline.co.uk

Kent, U.K.

Via Go-Jamaica