Ethnic Minorities in Inner City Areas

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Ethnic Minorities in Inner City Areas

(Carr P175-P180 and Independent Review)

It can be said that ethnic minorities do remain concentrated in the

inner areas of many MEDC cities, as can be seen in the 1991 census

data, which shows disproportional numbers of ethnic minorities in

London and major cities in the Midlands and the North of England. This

can also be seen in the USA but is more significant as ethnic

minorities make up a much lager proportion of the population, due to

the higher rate of natural increase amongst the Hispanic and Asian

segments of the ethnic groups, as well as their continued immigration

into the cities. A centre for such cultural diversity in the USA is

New York, which has the highest proportion of ethnic minorities

amongst its population. The distribution of ethnic minorities around

the county is also similar with the UK and USA for example most black

people are concentrated in the north of the USA and most Hispanic

people are concentrated to the South and the West Coast.

Ethnic minorities have always traditionally been concentrated in

central areas ever since the first wave of immigration in 1948-1968

where they left the unemployment and poverty in their own country to

look for work in semi skilled low paid jobs where black Caribbeans

filled the labour gap left by the second world war initially in cities

such as London to work on the Underground transport system, then

immigrated to fill labour requirements in rapidly expanding industries

such as the textile industry in Bradford which attracted many

immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent. A further pull of the UK was

because of the imperialistic com...

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...and several

high profile investigations in the USA have helped to reduce the

amount of this that goes on however it is still accepted that there is

still prejudice against ethnic minorities wanting to move out of their

traditional central areas that they inhabit. Also, modern public

policies are tailored towards equal rights for ethnic minorities and

in some cases positive discrimination against the majority white

population in an attempt to integrate them more into society and cause

dispersal.

In conclusion, the UK like the USA and Western Europe is a

multicultural society where ethnic minorities maintain their own

culture and their own distinctive residential areas, which stem from

the time when immigration initially took place and the indirect

discrimination and unwillingness to integrate of ethnic minorities.

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