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In respect to Muslim Communities, try: Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure; Abbas, T. (ed), 2005.
If you want a good example of how migration and settlement affects tensions between communities in the long run, try;
Whereever Green is Worn - Tim Pat Coogan (2000)
In the modern context, the major waves of migration to Britain have been the Irish of the 50s/60s and later in the 1980s; and the South Asian migrants during the 1950s/60s and East African Asians during the 1970s (particularly after Idi Amin expelled the business owning Asians from Uganda).
What Kermit's point flags up is that, the social and economic conditions of the sending regions will have quite an affect upon the experience of the diaspora. For example; the general profile of Indian Muslims and East African Asian Muslims is drastically different from that of Bangladeshi and Pakistani migrants.
Indian Muslims, for example, would often have come from areas where there were developed market economies and educational institutions. Thus the knowledge and skills of business and education disposed them favorably to establishing themselves in Britain; hence your 1970s derrived stereotype of Indian cornershops.
By contrast the Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups often came from poorer rural sending regions (such as Sylat, and Azad Kashmir). Thus their experience, usually of unskilled labour or work in northern mills and factories, was quite different.
:yes: Definately, which is why I love it so much.
However, Brighton and Sussex in general is fairly wealthy in comparison to northern cities like Bradford, and Whites are still in the vast majority despite more and more ethnic families moving down here, espescially in Brighton.
Because of this, there is no reason for hatred of other races to grow.
There is more than a little truth in that, although I think that to say it is the source of 'most' tension might be going too far.
The MCB seemingly came out of nowhere to 'represent' the 'British Muslim Community' after 9/11 and 7/7, and there are some question over how and where they came to this prominence, and also over their membership.
yes that's called advertising to every group possible
I remember the riots in 2003 (I think), when it was perceived that the Kurdish Asylum seekers were being treated better than native British people. Funnily enough, they day after it happened... Just like the day after the London bombings the BNP were dragging their knuckles around Wrexham town centre with their hateful leaflets.
I do blame media influence, but I can see too how tensions can be made worse by people on the left (or who claim to be) in their attitudes. For example, some gay rights activists who criticised far right Islamic terrorists for preaching homophobia were put on a website similar to Redwatch, only for people who are apparently Islamophobic.
The fact is that we live in a system which exploits people as it is and not everybody has the access to resources to educate themselves and there are political groups and media companies who will use this for their own gain sadly...
I think also that racism is very complicated. Not only is it institutionalised, I think that a lot of people are subconsciously racist and that it is different to being malisciously racist... If that makes sense.
lol
Atzmon who the SWP has defended even closely associates himself with the notorious anti-Semite, Israel Shamir. Shamir believes in an alliance of the far-right and far-left...
More disturbingly he believes in all sorts of bizarre anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
yes i know, in politics it isn't really a spectrum, more of a circle with centre on the opposite side to the extreme left and right parties :thumb:
my post previously was off topic i just found it amusing
It all depends where you live and how well off people are.
If everyone's doing fine then there's usually very little racism, if people are struggling to make ends meet then they band into their subgroups.
My sister is half-cast and for about ten years (on and off) she was abused because of this. There was endless times i would walk down the street with her and have to face her being called a ni**er or something similar. Moreso there were endless times I'd have to help her as she got jumped by up to 10 people at a time.
However , we moved area for a while and the abuse stopped, (which is why i say it is worse in some places than others). Now the family has moved back to the area we were at (excluding my sister who lives elsewhere), and my brother sometimes gets the same treatment. He isn't coloured but just tans VERY easily, and there are times he will be called a p*ki or similar.
Its strange though, because when we moved away. My sister didn't get taunted, but others did. We had pakistani's who lived on the same street, and they were one of the niicest families i know, however they were driven out by a family of gypsies who weekly would abuse them by either name calling or window breaking.
I think every area has a target to blame for their misfortunes, and they pick on whichever group is the minority group in that area. Very sad that this happens to this day.
I dont think theres really any tension or trouble between any different groups thankfully.