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Originally Posted by InOne
Some cultures do some don't. Pakistanis, Polish, Romanians, Bulgarians seem to like their own areas over here. They pretty much icolate themselves and have their own shops and speak their own language. This is the second or third wave though, the ones that originally came did make the effort but weren't very welcomed. Therefore you have the next generations being born with a chip of their shoulder and it just carrying on.
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Not just shops in ghettos anymore, though, but sometimes whole towns are becoming dominated by an "ethnic minorities" :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicest...ulation_change
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A demographic profile of Leicester published by the city council in 2008 noted:
Alongside English there are around 70 languages and/or dialects spoken in the city. In addition to English, eight languages are commonly spoken: Gujarati is the preferred language of 16% of the city's residents, Punjabi 3%, Somali 4% and Urdu 2%. Other smaller language groups include Hindi, Bengali and Polish. ... With continuing migration into the city, new languages and or dialects from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe are also being spoken in the city. In primary schools in Leicester, English is NOT the 'preferred' language of 45% of pupils and the proportion of children whose first language is known, or believed to be, other than English, is significantly higher than other cities within the region, or within the UK.
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