Multicultural Britain in the 21st Century
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Executive summary from the Opinium report A question of identity and equality in multicultural Britain.
70 years ago in Britain issues of race and identity were unfamiliar to most, in a country that looked very different from today.
However, since then the face of the nation has changed rapidly. Within the lifetime of the baby boomer generation, the UK has gone from a country where almost all communities were single faith and monocultural, to a society where one in ten are ethnic minorities.
The prevailing view about the 1950s through to the 1980s is that we didn’t handle this transition particularly well. Each new wave of immigration from another part of the Commonwealth sparked a reaction, often negative, that resulted in rushed legislation to extend restrictions on future entry into Britain. Those who had already arrived often felt targeted by politicians and the authorities – the stop and search powers from the sus laws were particularly resented.
Yet, there is a feeling that si...
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