It'll just take time to adjust to the migation of the last 20 years or so. My parents didn't care much for the influx in the 50's and 60's. This is represented by the attitudes of TV shows mentioned. I went to school with their kids so never an issue for me. I don't much care for eastern europeans or Somilians, don't wish them any harm, don't want to "send them back" but I am guity of avoidance (section 2 on Allports scale). I think its true to say that many of those groups feel the same towards me. Their children go to school with my nephews, for that generation there will be tolerence, in the main there will never be intergation. I'm not racist but I'm not naive enough to thing it'll end up any other way.

Funny too how the right wingers always insist on "integration", which seems to run counter to their loud insistence on "individual freedom" and "liberty". So that means different standards for freedom and liberty depending on skin colour and/or godhead? Because integration seems to be forced conformity which certainly doesn't celebrate or at least allow much room for individual freedom or liberty (unless, as some have of you have suggested above, freedom and liberty are to be allowed only in the economic sphere). The hard right and hard left seem to have different ends but the same means; if you think of politics as a circle then it makes sense.

Only an opinion...

1)  Admiral Cod is currently laughing himself silly.

2)   Nobody has 'exposed' or 'revealed' anybody as anything - What we have seen is the Admiral's bandwagon being jumped by all those who have felt the need to (me included)...

3)   This is all about the racial mix of Hogwarts, as you will recall.


... Next we will get to grips with Noddy...  No!  Mr. Punch!  - That deformed, hook-nosed, wife-beater...

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... wanking... trains... take-aways... woodlice & silverfish... the NHS... falling over... patience... not saying what you mean... being kind... nice smells from the Giant vibrator... proper muffins (not those little American cakes)... the welcoming warmth of the Underground in December... curry-based burps... frowning in the rain & smiling in the sun... black cabs... raised eyebrows...

To be fair though, you are talking about Leicester - Norway must seem a paradise by comparison......... mind you, Azerbaijan would probably seem like paradise by comparison!