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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