Britain Has Always Been a Tolerant Society. Discuss

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Britain has always been a tolerant society - and rightly proud of it. Immigrants have been welcomed for generations and most people think nothing of visiting a Pakistani doctor, Caribbean restaurant or French dentist. And most people's circle of friends and family includes people from different races. Yet we are bombarded with claims, often repeated by senior politicians, that a flood of foreigners is dividing the nation into race ghettoes. Today, research reveals the truth about modern, mixed-race Britain. Based on the last Census in 2001, which included race origins for the first time, it shows we happily live in multicultural communities everywhere. MYTH -UK takes more than its fair share of immigrants TRUTH - Numbers rose from 2.6 million in 1961 to 5.4 million in 2005 - a 110 per cent increase that is in line with the rest of the world. Less than three per cent of the world's migrants live in BRITAIN. And we have a smaller proportion of immigrants than the US, Canada, Australia and several European countries including Germany. Percentage of world's migrant population living in.. UK 3%, GERMANY 5% USA 13% MYTH -Britain is becoming a country of racial ghettoes TRUTH -The only concentrations anything like ghettoes are of white people. There are no very high concentrations of particular ethnic groups. Even the least white ward in Britain - Southall Broadway in the London Borough of Ealing - has a 12 per cent white population. At street level average white person lives in an area which is.. -94% white At street level average Pakistani person lives in an area which is..-26% Pakistani MYTH -Ethnic minorities don't mix with other racial groups TRUTH -Less than 20 per cent of minorities born in BRITAIN have friends only from their own group. White people are actually the most isolated in their friendships - more than half only have white friends.

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