I might be living in a liberal bubble but I almost never hear xenophobia. Some casual racism & more nasty generalisations abt Muslims. 1/2
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But the casual disparagement of 'foreigners' I used to hear as a child & still do from some elderly clients seemed to have largely gone.2/2
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As a teenager, remember people being bewildered at the suggestion that 'Paki-shop' was not a neutral & acceptable term. 1/2
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Coupla months ago someone described a tech adviser as a 'Paki-man' at the school & a collective gasp of shock resulted. 2/2
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Anecdotal obv from one part of London but things had got so much better. Are they getting worse again? How can we measure this reliably?
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The voices demanding we hate our own cultures & the ones insisting we hate everyone else's are loud. How numerous are they?
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