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Originally Posted by Pierre
The problem is that some politicians and other equally unqualified experts seem to believe in the misnomer that is a multi-culturial society.
It doesn't work, people like to be around their own kind, it makes them feel secure and safe. If you're an immigrant you don't want to be the only immigrant on you street, You'll feel like an outcast. If immigration was a slow process then the immigrants coming in would feel like they had to integrate in order to belong, but with the levels of mass immigration large communities have been born and therefore immigrants feel like they don't need to integrate.
Also in areas where there are a lot of immigrants where are all the former owners of these houses??? Well as soon as an area starts to get a large asian population then all the white people scarper because suddenly they're in the minority and don't feel comfortable with that and need to move to where they're back in the majority. All their kids are pulled out the local school because there are too many asian kids there and you end up with 99% asian schools and 99% white schools literally hundreds of yards from each other. So the next generation of kids don't mix leading to more segregation of communities.
Integration doesn't work, multi-culturalism doesn't work (well not the way this and previous governments have tackled it).
multi-culturalism and integration would and could work if immigration had been controlled and thought about and immigrants had been given time for their communities to integrate with the existing communities instead of the mass immigration we got which threw it all out of kilter.
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I think you have probably hit the nail on the head to a certain extent, I know in Cardiff the immigrants who came in many years ago were sailors that settled there. I believe the majority were single men who settled and married local women, this has meant they have integrated into society.
There does tend to be distinct areas in Cardiff where these immigrants live, but I think that was mainly due to them living close to the area they worked.
I also know a black Jamiaican family ( an ex-girfriend of mine) whos mother came over here after getting a british passport when Jamaica became independant. She has 2 sisters and 3 brothers all married, and the strange thing is not one member of her immediate family are married to a black person. So you could say they have fully integrated into the community unlike other races.
I think very often its all down to accepting that you are no better than anyone else, and different cultures act differently and have different morals. Some races will never integrate into this country because they disagree with our way of life and our religious beliefs, at the end of the day as they say.
When in Rome do as the Romans do.