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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
If that were the case, surely the mistrust etc. should have virtually disappeared during the economic boom? To me, there has to be more to it than simply a sense of scapegoatism.
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There hasn't been enough time to fully eliminate this mistrust from society, mass immigration into the UK only started with the need for labour after WWII and was fully underway by the 1950s. In the last 60 years, leaps and bound have been made in most areas and stagnated in others, but I would say about 50 to 100 years should be the norm for a modern educated society to eliminate most of these prejudices, but of course these time-scales have been thrown awry by the current economic crisis which arrived almost unforseen, current generations have never experienced such hardship in the UK (unless of course you were affected by the Thatcher years and you lived up north in the 1980s)