[Livia]

Originally Posted by kazanne

I found the article very interesting and no doubt some articulate people will too.

It might be interesting if it wasn't a lot of cobbled-together scare-mongering. Whoever this "expert" is, if he looks back into his own family a couple of generations he'll definitely find an immigrant or two.

I come from Newham in east London. White, indiginous people became a minority there about twenty years ago. What difference has it made? None. Considering the mad ethnic mix of Newham - over a hundred languages are recognised by the local authority - you'd think it'd be a hot-bed of racism and violence... but it isn't. I'm not going to pretend everything in the garden is rosy, but it's no worse than any other urban area in the UK.

I moved to the countryside a while ago and I have never heard so many disgusting racist comments before in my life. That's because I now live with people who think minorities are different. They know no better, they didn't go to school with other cultures, they don't live with other cultures, so to them they're exotic, different... scary. Newham on the other hand, has been multicultural since the Royal Docks were built in Victorian times, and people from all around the world have been settling there for generations. Does it make the indiginous whites a downtrodden, overlooked group? No, it doesn't. It makes the place richer and more interesting.

I think articles like this are scare-mongering and destructive. I notice no source was mentioned. I'd be interested to know for which publication it was thrown together.