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There's the odd violent clash, though things seem to have been quiet for a while.  Mostly, any trouble was between British born ethnic-minority youths (in this area almost all are the children or grandchildren of immigrants) and dispersed asylum-seekers, who were mostly young men in enforced unemployment.

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.

by Sassafras on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 02:32:49 AM EST
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It very rarely got to violence, yelled insults (or in winter snowballs) would result in the younger youth following the opposing pack to the point where there were older youths outside their community centre where discretion would become the better part of valour. My youthful taste for alcohol was developed in pubs in and around that part of town before moving on to a place that sold jug served real ale in the centre of town.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 04:19:00 AM EST
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