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Originally Posted by Russ
How much mixing did I do? Well it’s not like I kept a diary of who I mixed with on a daily basis but from the latest census at the time white people were 49% of the city’s population.
Each Saturday we’d go shopping in the city centre (for those who don’t know Leicester there’s a large clock town in the centre which very often had evangelical Muslims giving out leaflets etc, I was never snarled at when Id decline. All shopping centres would have a great deal of Muslim and non-white shoppers, nobody ever gave me any grief.
Sundays we’d go to local parks, attractions etc, again nobody looked at me twice, they (just like I) got on with enjoying themselves.
When I did go to the ex’s daughters parents evenings no non-white parents or staff paid much attention to me.
When I go to pick my son up from school nowadays I don’t get hassle from any of the parents there either.
Is that enough mixing for you?
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How much of that is really mixing in the sense of "multiculturalism" and not just keeping mainly to one group? As the article says, "Tensions had been rising between different minority communities
for quite some time,". It wasn't just the cricket match.