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The British Working Class
Broadcaster Michael Collins talks about Southwark's immigrant community.
Has the influx of immigrants over the years caused the splintering of the white working class and led to its ghettoisation?
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I think this is a fairly typical misguided line of argument. The white, working class, or poor have always been marginalised, but by their own society,or social "superiors", initially the gentry,and then by the middle classes. When we look at power and influence in this country it is apparent that that it does not lie in the hands of immigrants, it lies in the above two classes, who ultimately benefit the most from capitalism, at the expense often of immigrants and the white working classes. the difference is that immigrants (particularly brown and black) have to deal with the racism of the white gentry, white middle and to a lesser degree in my experience white working classes as an additional discriminatory factor.
- abigmandis, 21 October 2008
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