Monday, January 19, 2009

Immigrants Remake Community and No One Notices

Fascinating article on Korean immigration to Great Britain.

This is a bourgeois invasion. Korea and Britain could hardly be more remote and different from each other. Yet these two groups, the Home Counties British and the Korean newcomers, are astonishingly similar: self-contained, reticent, desperate to avoid offence and very bad at making connections, partly because they are both hopeless at foreign languages.

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