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The head of the Commission for Racial Equality Trevor Phillips is warning of increased segregation.
But it should come as no surprise - it has been on the government's books since the riots of 2001.
The most damning report into the disturbances, by Ted Cantle, a former council chief and expert in local communities, warned of communities living "parallel lives" and recommended wide-ranging changes to policy.
The words chosen by Mr Phillips for his speech are more strident - but they amount to the same thing: People share space in Britain's towns and cities but do not know who each other are.
The CRE chairman has already attacked what many increasingly regard as the heart of the problem, multiculturalism, a concept that few people agree on.
'Enclaves growing'
So what is the evidence? Last month the Royal Geographical Society published a study that suggested ethnic "enclaves" are growing in the UK's cities.
In 16 major cities, including London, Manchester and Bradford, they found groups isolated by ethnicity. Some of the widest separation occurred with people of Pakistani or Bangladeshi backgrounds, some of the poorest groups in society.
In short, government policy needs to be much more sophisticated in how it stops this kind of seemingly permanent division, argued the paper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4269988.stm
British society is "sleepwalking" its way into racial segregation, according to the UK's race equality chief.
Trevor Phillips, head of the Commission for Racial Equality, is to give a speech warning some areas of the UK are turning into "fully-fledged ghettos".
He warns of divisions similar to those seen in hurricane-hit New Orleans.
But a member of the Liberal Democrats' Muslim Forum, Mohammed Shafiq, said multi-culturalism was a success and called for Mr Phillips to resign.
So is the New Lies much lauded Multiculturalism just creating a segregated society? What should be done? Is it all bollox?
Discuss and/or abuse etc.
The head of the Commission for Racial Equality Trevor Phillips is warning of increased segregation.
But it should come as no surprise - it has been on the government's books since the riots of 2001.
The most damning report into the disturbances, by Ted Cantle, a former council chief and expert in local communities, warned of communities living "parallel lives" and recommended wide-ranging changes to policy.
The words chosen by Mr Phillips for his speech are more strident - but they amount to the same thing: People share space in Britain's towns and cities but do not know who each other are.
The CRE chairman has already attacked what many increasingly regard as the heart of the problem, multiculturalism, a concept that few people agree on.
'Enclaves growing'
So what is the evidence? Last month the Royal Geographical Society published a study that suggested ethnic "enclaves" are growing in the UK's cities.
In 16 major cities, including London, Manchester and Bradford, they found groups isolated by ethnicity. Some of the widest separation occurred with people of Pakistani or Bangladeshi backgrounds, some of the poorest groups in society.
In short, government policy needs to be much more sophisticated in how it stops this kind of seemingly permanent division, argued the paper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4269988.stm
British society is "sleepwalking" its way into racial segregation, according to the UK's race equality chief.
Trevor Phillips, head of the Commission for Racial Equality, is to give a speech warning some areas of the UK are turning into "fully-fledged ghettos".
He warns of divisions similar to those seen in hurricane-hit New Orleans.
But a member of the Liberal Democrats' Muslim Forum, Mohammed Shafiq, said multi-culturalism was a success and called for Mr Phillips to resign.
So is the New Lies much lauded Multiculturalism just creating a segregated society? What should be done? Is it all bollox?
Discuss and/or abuse etc.
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