[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Blackshep

I work with some fantastic individuals who have integrated and adapted since arriving in the UK but large numbers don't they enter the country and immediately locate to an established area and never progress. I've seen it in Birmingham, Bradford, Leicester and London and I've also seen how those communities expand when their numbers become too large for their original area.

What I meant by restricting healthcare is they cannot fly their relatives in long enough to get expensive treatment on the NHS something which is rampant in certain area's according to numerous NHS staff. As for not allowing them to group it isn't racist or xenophobic it's common sense if integration is truly the goal not allowing them to create and maintain essentially ghettos will encourage integration while giving communities an opportunity to establish a relationship.

Pretty sure if I was racist or xenophobic I would be saying stop all immigration which I haven't but good of you to invoke the default response oh and the longing for return to empire implication by the time I was born there was no empire and hadn't been for a while.

There you have it. Integration of certain different cultures is do-gooder pie in the sky.

There are at least two cultures that, imo, integrate well even though they often establish localised communities of their own. By "integrate well", I mean just get on with their lives and have no obvious concept of an infidel with whom to disagree.