Integration Doesn't Seem To Be Working

[Gran67]

"Census figures show white Britons are leaving areas where they are minority"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320002/How-rise-white-flight-creating-segregated-UK-Study-reveals-white-Britons-retreating-areas-dominated-ethnic-minorities.html

Would you leave your area if you found yourself in the minority?

[tonyav]

Who said it was idyllic ?.

[shaneystar2]

Well it sounds as if it is ,conservation area etc :)

[tonyav]

There are conservation areas all over the country, shaneystar.

[FredPuli43]

Shari, as stated, I was in three blocks of, mostly Muslim, foreigners in Chelsea and Fuham. They were all well off and some were professionals as well. Strangely, I only sold each flat and moved on to the next because others offered me good profit and I felt like a change; I am like that, cultural; but it never concerned me that they had different religion, colour, or practices to mine (dismaying as mine often are). I had trouble with the handful of few, white,old resident, Hyacinth Bucket types, with their strange ideas of what ' proper' people did, who, notoriously but typically, were only pacified by the belief (in their minds) that I and my family had the background and status which they aspired to. It's a rubbish attitude and far more alien to me than they're being a Muslim, and not British, white, Christians, would ever have been.

That's why I ask why the objection to immigrant neighbours. To me, a good many British are objectionable, but I wouldn't move because of it.

[shaneystar2]

But you still haven't answered my question .
Would you move out if I moved in with my white immigrant husband ?

[tonyav]

Dunno.

[sp1814]

Interesting point made by a level-headed Daily Mail reader:

London and the bigger cities have always been like this. It has happened down the years going way back whenever there has been a wave of immigration. My East End family moved up in the world and settled in Southall in the 1930s. In the 50s and 60s as local manufacturing declined and the first in the family got a higher education the step up for them was moving further out into Herts and Bucks. Many of the Asian families who moved in after them have done exactly the same thing. You now have the situation in some parts of London where previously run down areas are reverting to the the middle class which populated them back in Victorian and Edwardian times. What goes around comes around.

[Sqad]

\\"Census figures show white Britons are leaving areas where they are minority" \\

These are the facts folks.....so......what are the reasons?

[chaptazbru]

shaney I don't think we're talking about one immigrant moving in, rather a whole community being taken over by immigrants, as IS happening in many parts of the country!

[Zacs-Master]

What is wrong with wanting to live somewhere where the majority of people are of the same ethnic group as you? It's perfectly natural.

[Sqad]

No...to me.....the answer is simple.

Despite the UK claiming it is a tolerant and democratic society, social and racial prejudice is still prevalent in the UK.

[bazwillrun]

"I don't think we're in much danger of anything,"

and it doesnt get much more naive than that

no need to get you any blinkers for Xmas your current ones seem to be fine

[tonyav]

There are several areas in my nearest town that were once very nice IE, large Edwardian type and some other types of houses, however I think most people would now call then ghetto's and these areas have got like that over approx 40 years.

[Sharingan]

I live on the Moors ( Clee Hill area) in Shropshire Tony, but my dad has a lot of property in Birmingham as well as elsewhere so I have spent a fair amount of time in Sparkhill. We've also lived in London and try as I might I can't get wound up about anyone's colour or religion alone. As Fred says I can find enough indiginous white British people to fall out with if I really want a fight.

[FredPuli43]

tonyav,sorry but your 12.44 post only says that your village would be "destroyed" by immigrants. In what way(s) would it be "destroyed"? Not by suicide bombers, I take it. What further and better particulars can you provide? You must have thought this through.

[Sqad]

Shari\ Fred......yes! yes! yes|...well written and all that but it hasn't dealt with the OP's question:

Why is there a marked acceleration in whites leaving integrated areas?

[tonyav]

Mmmmm, I see that your parents or whoever you live with choose not to actually live in Sparkhill or London, is there any particular reason ?.

[tonyav]

Well Fred, it wouldn't then be the village that I know and love.

[FredPuli43]

tonyav, but in what objectionable way(s), ascribable only to immigrants, would it not the the village you know and love?

[albaqwerty]

to answer sqad's q, imo it's because the whites are scared/worried about other colours, ethnicities and their life-styles.

I don't know if I would leave my area if I found myself in the 'minority'