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**fluoxet** · 09-03-2010, 04:15 AM

There may have been blacks, but Britain pre-1950s was firmly mono-ethnic. Indians started to trickle in post WW2. I've seen how much Britain's changed in my short lifetime. When I was a kid you never saw Muslims and I never saw a woman in a burqa or veil until my late teens. Indians were "brown Brits" and I don't remember seeing many blacks. Now I see burqa'd women everyday, usually walking with their husbands who wear Superdry shirts and designer jeans. I never had an issue with blacks, but I think there's now an issue due to (and this is just my hyopthesis) the earlier ones who came for education or who could afford to and the later ones who came when Britain became a refugee acceptance state.

09-03-2010, 04:15 AM	#6
fluoxet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 591 Senior Member	There may have been blacks, but Britain pre-1950s was firmly mono-ethnic. Indians started to trickle in post WW2. I've seen how much Britain's changed in my short lifetime. When I was a kid you never saw Muslims and I never saw a woman in a burqa or veil until my late teens. Indians were "brown Brits" and I don't remember seeing many blacks. Now I see burqa'd women everyday, usually walking with their husbands who wear Superdry shirts and designer jeans. I never had an issue with blacks, but I think there's now an issue due to (and this is just my hyopthesis) the earlier ones who came for education or who could afford to and the later ones who came when Britain became a refugee acceptance state.
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