True, but in the past, it took centuries to grow. The Single Market changed all that.
Immigration shoots up from about 10% to 15%-20% in just one generation.
That's just not true.
The Normans came here in huge numbers within a very short space of time and greatly angered the English with their insistence on the adoption of French language and customs. So much so that the English deliberately misunderstood and mispronounced French to infuriate the Normans. Yet that went on to become the most successful of all our integrations, as our language and ancestry shows.
Around the start of the 20th century there was a very large influx of Eastern European Jewish refugees into East London, them quickly becoming a dominant population there and causing great dissent among the rest of Londoners. Many of their sons and grandsons, born as cockneys, went on to become a high proportion of London's cabbies, true to this day. Their integration is so complete that they are regarded as the archetypal English London cockney!
At the same time there was a rapid very large influx of people from Italy into the UK, so many settling around Bedford that it's still known as Little Italy. But their integration is so complete that the are fully a part of English life at all levels. My use of the language should show you that I am very English, yet I am from that Italian influx with an Italian surname.
And just look at the very recent rapid peaceful absorption of the French into the London and Kent areas, you being one of them.
It only takes a generation to get acceptance and a fair degree of integration, both the UK and Germany among others proving that true. There is after all always a newer newcomer to pick on!
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