Culture corner one, exercise four, page 21 multicultural Britain my grandparents first came to Britain from India in 1962 to work in a factory, so I'm third generation British Indian.0:00
I speak Gujarati with my family and enjoy going to huge Indian weddings at the community centre or taking part in Hindu festival celebrations such as Diwali.0:39
But I have a lot of friends and interests outside the community too.0:50
I've heard recently that more than a third of people living in my city Leicester today are migrants or second or third generation migrants.0:55
So it's set to be the first city in the UK where ethnic minority groups will make up the majority.1:04
Rupa16 when people ask me where I'm from I say I'm British even though I'm of Chinese origin.1:12
I used to live in a small town and I got picked on a bit because I looked different.1:23
But now I live in Newham in East London which is the most culturally diverse place in the United Kingdom.1:29
At school, half of the pupils speak English as a second language.1:36
Our next door neighbors are from Poland.1:41
They came to Britain with their 15 year old boy just after Poland became part of the EU.1:45
Lee17 My parents are from Jamaica but they have been living in England since they were young.1:51
I was born and brought up in Birmingham, England.2:01
When the first Caribbeans were invited to come to Britain for work in the late 1940s, there was quite a lot of racism and it was hard for Caribbeans to find well paid work.2:05
Nowadays the Caribbean community is one of the most integrated in Britain.2:19
Racism isn't unheard of of course, but you only have to see how many mixed race marriages there are now and how many second and third generation Caribbeans are household names on TV to understand how much things have changed.2:25
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