Monday, November 7, 2016

Birds of a Feather ...

The Daily Mail (U.K.) reports residential segregation is growing rapidly in British cities and towns. The article interviews an East Indian butcher.
It is not good that we all live separately but how can we fix this problem? Asian families like to live in the same area as each other so we can support one another, but then the white people move out.

It's not that we deliberately choose to live separately – it is just what happens. We want to live in this area because we are close to the mosques and all our families are very close to each other.
The article never mentions where the whites who flee immigrant neighborhoods are going. It could be urban white neighborhoods or suburbs or the countryside.

What I find curious is this self-sorting process - seen as new in the U.K. - is such an old one in the U.S.  Most of our neighborhoods sorted themselves out decades ago.