Word: britain
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Other Western European states have had to deal with sizable racial minorities in the form of "guest workers" who have been allowed in on a temporary basis to fill factory and public service jobs. But in Britain, by contrast, most of the minorities are citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup...
...group actually encouraging violence against minorities, has achieved notoriety beyond its membership of 20,000 or so with scare tactics and street demonstrations. But both the Tories and Labor have carefully refrained from playing reckless politics with race. The Labor Party at least has correctly diagnosed the nature of Britain's racial ills even if it failed to push through any forceful program while in office. Says Merlyn Rees, Labor's shadow Home Secretary: "We need to counter the myths and propaganda about immigration and immigrants and state the positive case for a multiracial society. The real question...
...Thatcher immigration policy is aimed at curbing "those coming in." The proposals, which will be formally announced in the fall, would restrict most further immigration to the wives and children of male heads of families already legally settled in Britain; that would chiefly affect nonwhites, since many would-be white immigrants would be admitted under a provision allowing immigration of persons who have a British-born grandparent. Under the Tory plan, the new Commonwealth inflow would drop in twelve months from the 1978 total of 42,939 to as low as 28,000, and would further decline over the next...
Gone are the days, too, when Britain could ignore its minorities. A social struggle has barely begun, and it could reach threatening dimensions before Britons recognize that once it is a reality, a multiracial society cannot be undone...
...warnings began crackling over the BBC just after midday, and by nightfall they were growing urgent: "Severe gale, Force 9, increasing strong Force 10, imminent." Most of the 306 yachts in Britain's 605-mile Fastnet race were already in the South Irish Sea, near the bleak rock for which the biennial blue-water classic is named. Running for shelter seemed unnecessary, perhaps impossible. Said Tom McLoughlin, a Californian aboard the French yacht Accanito: "We deluded ourselves into thinking that the weather was going to improve...