Integration

I used this article with my advanced level literacy class yesterday afternoon, partly to practise their paragraphing and titling skills, partly because I was interested to see what their reaction would be.

Everyone made the point - or two, once we'd agreed that plenty of British people gob on the street and push into queues nowadays - that they would love to learn about our culture by spending time with British people but never get any opportunities outside of work and language classes, both places where they're mainly together with other foreigners. If we're going to tell immigrants how to integrate, we should start by realising that ghettoisation cuts both ways.