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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Garinda, no-one forces any immigrants to live where they do. They choose to live in and among the people who they feel they have most in common with.
Unfortunately this does not facilitate integration. I have a friend who is a district nurse in Oldham and there are some areas where Asian youths stand on the streets and tell visiting white people they will not be welcome in 'their' area,this is done in an intimidating manner.
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When Asians first came to Lancashire to work in the mills in the 50's and 60's, where they lived often saw a mass exodus of their white neighbours, with people thinking that they would paint their houses purple and orange and prices of properties nearby would fall.
So my point that we may have created ghettos ourselves because we didn't let these people integrate, I still think may be true.