However-one of the buildings they passed was a Christian community centre. Why, the head asked, did they think it was there?
To make new arrivals feel welcome, piped up the class.
"Because they want to convert them into Christians," said my son.
Oh, dear... :)
is the Lithuanian centre still there? and the synagogue? watching gangs of different factions youth chase each other from community centre to community centre in the early 80's was always entertaining. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
It will be...ahem...interesting to see what happens when the children of recent Eastern European migrants reach their teens. They do face prejudice, both from the indigenous population (if the UK can truly be said to have such a thing) and more established immigrant communities. And it would be fair to say that, in my experience, some of the newly-arrived families have brought their own prejudices against other ethnic minorities with them.
