I enjoy living in the multi-cultural society which the UK has become.
From 6.7 million foreign born citizens in 2009 we've gone to 7.5 million. Amazing. In Oxford it feels the Brits are outnumbered already and I had a walk around in Aylesbury today and observed a very diverse and significant number of non-English folk.
Having chatted to some guys from Hungary (who I mistook for Poles) I was curious, so I did some digging. They reckon that by 2031 foreign born people will outnumber the English in London. Bring it on! It bodes well for the future, providing this country with an excellent training ground for how to get on in other cultures and geographies.
Amazingly ze Germans are also very much in evidence - who would have thought that?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2011/05/26/MIGRATION940.jpg
From 6.7 million foreign born citizens in 2009 we've gone to 7.5 million. Amazing. In Oxford it feels the Brits are outnumbered already and I had a walk around in Aylesbury today and observed a very diverse and significant number of non-English folk.
Having chatted to some guys from Hungary (who I mistook for Poles) I was curious, so I did some digging. They reckon that by 2031 foreign born people will outnumber the English in London. Bring it on! It bodes well for the future, providing this country with an excellent training ground for how to get on in other cultures and geographies.
Amazingly ze Germans are also very much in evidence - who would have thought that?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2011/05/26/MIGRATION940.jpg
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