Americans In England

Here, since the late 1960s, there are several towns and cities, not just Jackson Heights-type neighbourhoods, full of different South Asian communities. In London alone: Brick Lane, Bangladeshis; Whitechapel and Forest Gate, Pakistanis; Wembley, Gujeratis; Tooting, South Indians; Southall, Punjabis. Many of these - particularily in Southall - came over to work in mass production jobs and are, still, broadly speaking, pretty working class or owners of family businesses. Up north, South Asians came over to work in the cotton mills and that's why lots of the old mill towns have massive Asian areas. There are zero jobs for anyone and a lot of racist nonsense of the 'we jobless uneducated white people have less than these jobless uneducated Asian people, and that's wrong' variety, which sucks (Gareth can tell more about Bradford, where riots were last summer). It's a lot less segregated in the South.

The middle-class Asian people I know don't live in the 'neighbourhoods' and send their kids to private day schools; generally speaking these are the Asians we see on television, presenting (tons of Bengali Hindus, probably from Brahmin families) and being on Radio 4 while the comedy and film people who are most famous here are mostly Punjabis (my friend Satinder, who's Sikh, says watching Goodness Gracious Me, for her, is the equivalent of a Brooklyn Jew watching Woody Allen's more slapstick films). My neighbour Gita, who's a lecturer and from New York, preferred London because of the More Asians thing - you don't have to explain about a lot of things the way you might in the US, where there's not the colonial relationship with yon 'host country'. And I've noticed that while British Asians can speak the language spoken by parents and grandparents, American South Asians hardly ever do.

Former Dragons' Den star Dough Richard has today been found not guilty of child sex offences at the Old Bailey.

The 57-year-old - a former business adviser to David Cameron - arranged for two teenage schoolgirls to travel to London where he spanked and had sex with the younger one, who was just 13.

But he argued the girls had told him they were over 16 and he had no reason to believe they were lying.

A jury of eight women and four men deliberated for four hours and 15 minutes before finding Mr Richard, a married father-of-three, not guilty of three counts of sexual activity with a child, one of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and a charge of paying for sexual services.

Richard claimed he thought the girl, who is 5ft and weighs less than six stone, was 17 - even after she sent him a naked picture - and said he was 'mortified' to learn she was 13.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/british-expert-on-the-royal-family-is-actually-tommy-from-upstate-new-york-1527775859

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