Reply #54: I can tell you with absolute honesty [View All]

[dipsydoodle]

that the UK has certainly not been like that in my lifetime - I'm 62. I'm talking here specifically with regard to Afro-Caribbeans and black Africans. The main influx of immigration here was purposely and successfully encouraged in the mid 1950's. Speaking personally we were harmomised , no pun intended , by music and that's stayed pretty much the same ever since.

I was in Florida 1980 and with a deep tan, shorts, polo shirt and sneakers often got mistaken for being a local until I opened my mouth. I was horrified that on buses I got the occasional look of "do you want my seat" ? I coped with it by smiling and saying something along the lines "would you be kind enough to let me know which stop I need for so and so" just to let the person know in a friendly way that I was English and not a local pig.