Supporters-opponents

Supporters and opponents of Multiculturalism

Supporters:

• young black and white Britons who are growing up together and who take a multicultural future for granted
• liberal politicians
• upper-middle class academics etc. who don't have to live with immigrants

Opponents:

• Muslims:

• want to remain seperate
• hold strong religious views
• refuse to integrate
• feel insulted by a critical book "The Satanic Verses"
• demand separate schools for their children

• British

• not many among the older generation want a society that celebrates racial difference
• don't want to live beside ethnic minority immigrants with their noisy parties and strange cooking smell
• they don't want to send their children to state schools with a mojority of children of Asian or black background and language
• British Government refused to ban "The Satanic Verses" book
• right wing white teenagers reacted with attacks on Pakistani shops and homes
• seem to have forgotten the old virtues
• racist slogans and graffiti appear

• Indians, Pakistanis, some British born children

• make little or no effort to adapt the customs of their new home
• some do not even bother to learn English
• live in seperate districts with own shops and schools