Are the people in Britain ethnically diverse?

"We celebrate the diversity in our country, get strength from the cultures and the races that go to make up Britain today." Prime Minister Tony Blair, 2 October 2001

People from all cultures and ethnicities can be found in every corner of Britain and each person in his or her own way has contributed to make Britain the place it is today. If you walk down a street in Britain, especially in the bigger cities you will usually see people with different hair, skin and eye colors. They may have white, brown or black skin and blonde, brown, black, or red hair, with blue, black, brown or green eyes. Many of the people you will see will be British people but they all look different because the people of Britain are a mixed race.

How Britain became a mixed race society Britain is and has always been a mixed race society. Early in its history it was invaded by Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans armies and later Africans were brought to Britain by force in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as slaves or servants. Over the years, thousands of people have arrived in Britain as refugees from France, Ireland, Russia, and other countries, escaping from persecution or famine in their own countries.

There are British people whose parents first came to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s from the Caribbean, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong and other places. Their homes are mainly in the big English cities like London, Birmingham and Manchester. About 8% of the population of Britain today are people from other cultures and ethnicities. That is 4.6 million people. According to a BBC Report in September 2005, immigration made up more than half of Britain's population growth from 1991 to Read more The Guardian newspaper reported in 2007 that the latest government estimate for long-term net immigration to the UK is a year.

New Cultures People moving to Britain have brought their own cultures and try to keep two cultures alive. An excellent example of this is the Notting Hill Carnival which is celebrates the Caribbean Culture and is now a very big part of the British life today. 250 different languages are spoken in London every day. are spoken in London every day.

People from minority ethnic groups were more likely to live in England than in the rest of the United Kingdom. They made up 9 per cent of the population of England in 2001 compared with 2 per cent of the population of both Wales and Scotland and 1 per cent of the population of Northern Ireland. Nearly half (45 per cent) of the total minority ethnic population live in London.

Multiculturalism after July 7th London’s public transport system was attack by suicide bombers. There were over 50 people who go killed and about 700 people were injured. After this incident British Muslims were look bad on. Angry letters were sent to Muslim leaders and there were even arsons. So what happened after this attack on London to the people’s idea of multiculturalism?

Even in the start of Tony Blair speech he praises Britain: “a country at ease with different races, religions and cultures. […].. a nation proud, willing and able to go out and compete on its merits”. Blair says that there is now a problem in the country because people no longer want multiculturalism. That there are people who want to separate the different majorities but that’s not the answer. What, I think, Tony Blair is trying to do with his speech is to make the British people trust each other again. Enjoy the fact that they live in a multicultural country and appreciate the differences.

Racism??? The United Kingdom has had racism, from mediæval times, through years of the slave trade to the modern day. There were race riots across the United Kingdom in 1919,in the early 1980s

The British Crime Survey reveals that in 2004, 87,000 people from black or minority ethnic communities said they had been a victim of a racially motivated crime. They had suffered 49,000 violent attacks, with 4,000 being wounded. At the same time 92,000 white people said they had also fallen victim of a racially motivated crime. The number of violent attacks against whites reached 77,000, while the number of white people who reported being wounded was five times the number of black and minority ethnic victims at 20,000. Most of the offenders (57%) in the racially motivated crimes identified in the British Crime Survey are not white. White victims said 82% of offenders were not white.