Ethnic diversity in the UK/Ethnische Vielfalt in Großbritannien
am 06.10.2006 von Transblawg
The Independent today has a map showing the most ethnically diverse areas of Britain, or perhaps England and Wales - Scotland and Northern Ireland are described in text beside the map, but not coloured in. I’ll have to go to Brighton (least religious town).
Muslims are less than 1% of Scotland’s population, but they are the second-largest religious group.
What are the chances of two people taken at random being from different ethnic groups? It various from 2% in Easington, County Durham, to 85% in Brent, London.
There’s an article too.
This is fitting, since yesterday I heard of a prediction that standard English may be replaced by a different mixture, since there are schools in London where a huge number of languages are spoken, but none of them is standard English - only a form of slang. (The reference was to Kerswill and Cheshire - as someone born in Hackney and brought up in Havering, I was particularly interested in the Hackney-Havering comparison here This seems to be the serious end of what came out in the British press as Jafaican and Tikkiny).
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