//For once, well done the BBC for not bowing to right-on politics//
No but it was shown at midnight and not advertised at all.
I wonder what the diversity industry will make of this man?
//Speaking on the documentary, he said: 'I do often think if my childhood friends were around right now they would say, 'He's more British than us. He's more proud of being an East Ender than us.'
'Everything this area stood for is being eradicated slowly but surely,' says this proud, sad fifth generation East Ender. 'In ten years' time, there'll be absolutely no trace of Cockney culture.'
Things used to be different, he says. 'I miss those days when everyone knew everyone.' Now his children are growing up with little knowledge of 'the British way of life'. These days, he says, some schools are more like 'Africa or Romania'//
There are some multi-generation immigrants who feel like they are East Enders, like Usman Hussain, whose family moved to East London from Bangladesh in the 1930s.
Mr Hussain is a fifth-generation Londoner who said he was pleased to see more Muslims in the area but, at the same time, misses the white friends he knew when he was young.