@astrologica wrote:
You are quite right Creeky...integration doesn't require everyone to be the same. But it does require that everyone has the desire to be integrated. This country has fallen over backwards to include and integrate people of other faiths and races, but the fact is that you cannot force people to integrate if they don't want to.
I agree. Atempting to force people to integrate will never work - however people don't live forever and the best chance of ensuring that the second, third, fourth generation do integrate is not to show hostility to the first generation immigrants.
The first generation of Caribean immigrants did not really integrate either and the racial discrimination exhibited by many which was not made illegal until the late sixties did not encourage the second and third generation to integrate either and led to the race riots of the eighties. Later generations are now much more an integral part of British society.
