Census 2011: fewer than half of people living in London are white

[norm]

It's still a city in England, it's just more culturally diverse than ever. Why is that a bad thing?

It's a question of identity.

Why are such efforts made to retain the appearances of listed buildings? Why when you mention giving up the pound in place of the euro do people get so emotive about it? (Financial reasons notwithstanding). Because they value the historical significance of it.

London is the capital of the UK, it should bear a greater resemblance to the rest of the country.

 

[PMKeates]

London is a huge city with many different pots of culture scattered across it. The reality is that while there are many areas seemingly completely populated by ethnic minorities, there are other areas seemingly completely populated by white middle class.

 

[Mason-]

Hey, that sounds a teeny bit like an open door policy to me

How is say Africa less fortunate? They have masses of resources, if they stopped stealing from each other they would be fine, India manages to be a superpower with nothing going for it.

That is what foreign aid is for, except going back to problem #1, they keep stealing it...

Marxism tried to share the wealth, it failed, I guess such political systems are incompatible with human nature.


All these crappy countries only have themselves to blame - we could walk in there tommorrow and set up systems of government and law, rebuild their infrastructure and help them trade - just like we did with India (not perfectly, but things have moved on since blatant exploitation)
Yet they don't want that, all they want is "Independance" so they can go back to chucking rocks at each other.

So what you're saying is that the UK is successful because of the people who ran it and countries are in poverty are bad because of the people who run it. Yeah that might be a fair analysis in this present day, but then you have to ask why did they end up like that in the first place? Well we raped them for all they had then after a country that's been occupied for a long time we just said you can have it back not to mention the fact we enslaved a continent of people. But yeah the west isn't/wasn't greedy at all. Never has been has it. Bitch please the richest of the rich don't give a **** about poor countries they just want to make money for themselves. Just like they say about parties these days, the difference between Tories and Labour is a name. It's an illusion so that the average man thinks that they actually have a choice. All MPs are in it for the same reason to make themselves richer.

And the sad thing is that when you die, you can't take it with you. And it all comes full circle. We're born the same, we die the same. Regardless of how you live so why does the middle part, life, have to be different depending on where you live?

 

[craptakular]

Britain is already doomed with too much immigration. If you dare to question it you are simply branded a racist and sickening.

I have started my moves to escape Europe.

 

[arctine]

Britain is already doomed with too much immigration. If you dare to question it you are simply branded a racist and sickening.

I have started my moves to escape Europe.

Just to check, is this a joke?

 

[dirtychinchilla]

It's a question of identity.

Why are such efforts made to retain the appearances of listed buildings? Why when you mention giving up the pound in place of the euro do people get so emotive about it? (Financial reasons notwithstanding). Because they value the historical significance of it.

London is the capital of the UK, it should bear a greater resemblance to the rest of the country.

What is this rubbish you're spouting? Why should it do anything; because you said so? I actually think it should be a fantastic example of multiculturalism. So who is correct? I expect your Norman, Saxon, and Roman ancestors would be really disappointed, and what about America, I bet they're so upset about multiculturalism.

Different people live in the world, deal with it.

 

[dowie]

Thread title is slightly misleading - White Britons constitute 45%.

There are other white people - second largest immigrant group behind Indians are Polish people, who obviously, are also white...

wouldn't rely on that Telegraph article in the OP for hard facts - it also contains this:

The overall percentage of people identifying themselves as Cornish in England and Wales was just 83,000.

 

[deuse]

London:

White British: 44.9%
White Irish: 2.2%
White Gypsy/Traveller: 0.1% Now in Birmingham
White Other: 12.6% All gone back to Poland\Italy ect

So 47.1% white total

 

[norm]

What is this rubbish you're spouting? Why should it do anything; because you said so? I actually think it should be a fantastic example of multiculturalism. So who is correct? I expect your Norman, Saxon, and Roman ancestors would be really disappointed, and what about America, I bet they're so upset about multiculturalism.

Different people live in the world, deal with it.

Funny because the Vikings & Romans are instantly recognisable with their unique identities. I don't recall them being a hotchpotch of people like London is today, where you'd struggle to define anything as British other than your beloved 'multiculturalism'.

 

[Orcish-Horde]

Its all ok till things stop working as intended, then your in the middle of a sectarian poo hole. Have fun London.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Funny because the Vikings & Romans are instantly recognisable with their unique identities. I don't recall them being a hotchpotch of people like London is today, where you'd struggle to define anything as British other than your beloved 'multiculturalism'.

Well if they were all in the same place at the same time then no doubt each of those groups had their own identities and at the same time formed a hodgepodge. I love multiculturalism.

 

[Nerusy]

The fact that OP missed or deliberately did not include the full "white british" makes me think he has a racist agenda. This type of title is similar to that of DailyMail.

However if we do give you benefit of the doubt, then I should point out that first of all Britain had a lot of colonies, remember, the whole commonwealth thing, making it easier for non "white british" people to be granted both access and residence permit here. On top of that London is the center hub of the world, financially and culturally. It is really not surprising at all.

Face of Britain is not really changing it is not going to spread out of London, however it would be interesting to compare the rate of change over the last 10 decades.

 

[Castiel]

Well if they were all in the same place at the same time then no doubt each of those groups had their own identities and at the same time formed a hodgepodge. I love multiculturalism.

I don't think those examples help you, the Romans and The Vikings didn't create a multicultural society, they imposed their culture on their conquests either through military conquest or economic occupation. The Anglo-Saxons were similar, although the Normans had a slightly different approach insofar that they assimilated cultures into their own, so much so that they assimilated themselves out of existence.

In any case, none are examples of successful multiculturalism, quite the opposite.

 

[Twirlywoos]

So it was alright for Britain to take part in 300 years of slave trade, yet you complain that there are more ethnic minorities living in London?

Hypocrisy among the Whites shows again!

 

[dirtychinchilla]

I don't think those examples help you, the Romans and The Vikings didn't create a multicultural society, they imposed their culture on their conquests either through military conquest or economic occupation. The Anglo-Saxons were similar, although the Normans had a slightly different approach insofar that they assimilated cultures into their own, so much so that they assimilated themselves out of existence.

In any case, none are examples of successful multiculturalism, quite the opposite.

I was referring more to white Britain's heritage, that was all.

 

[anything I don't mind]

London is a huge city with many different pots of culture scattered across it. The reality is that while there are many areas seemingly completely populated by ethnic minorities, there are other areas seemingly completely populated by white middle class.

Which areas are completely populated by white middle class in london? I only ask because I do not think there are any.There was that website that showed all the demographics on a map and the one thing i noticed is that there was no majority white areas in london. Not that there is anything specifically wrong with that.

 

[bitslice]

Actually most of the people I've spoken to spout the same kind of uneducated ill informed opinion as this.

It's easy to sit in a position of privilege & look down your nose at the developing world - totally ignorant to the fact if you had been born in that situation you would be exactly like them.

Sorry to deflate your little rant but of course I would be like them if I were born into the same situation, that doesn't change my opinion that certain countries have created their own dismal fate and other 3rd world countries have succeeded in spite of similar conditions.

 

[Raikiri]

So it was alright for Britain to take part in 300 years of slave trade, yet you complain that there are more ethnic minorities living in London?

Hypocrisy among the Whites shows again!

Uh, the whites? Don't see the irony in tarring everyone with the same brush, based on one persons opinon?

 

[bloodiedathame]

So it was alright for Britain to take part in 300 years of slave trade, yet you complain that there are more ethnic minorities living in London?

Hypocrisy among the Whites shows again!

What a ridiculous argument. Remove your head from your arse, open your eyes and realise that the there is no one alive who was ever involved with the slavery you talk about! People should not be vilified for the actions of their fathers, let alone great great great grandfathers.

Oh wait it's a majnu post. Trolled again.

 

[anything I don't mind]

http://www.londonprofiler.org/

if you go to english on the demographics maps you can see that there is no concentration of english in london but english are more sparsely populated over a larger area in a higher density than others. While most of the others have a low sparsely population and a high density in many cases in specific areas.