In The Ghetto...

Trevor Phillips is the head of the Commission For Racial Equality.
Quite how enforcing equality for races helps individuals is not something that the commission explains particularly, but Trevor has plenty to say about issues of race.

Recently he called for separate schools for 'black' boys.
Then, last week, he complained that British cities were turning into racially-segregated ghettos.

Quite why this is, he didn't say, even assuming it was true.
Anyway, why do certain people choose to live together, and why are these neighbourhoods likely to become dominated by any particular race?

And why is that a bad thing?

Well, the argument goes that anybody coming to the UK should adopt the customs and values of Britain.
But there are few customs and no values worth a dan that anybody has codified successfully.

But what do people anywhere choose to do?
They choose to live with people who share their outlooks and values.
It definitely does not have to be racial, but imagine; you are a Pakistani and you have come to Britain.
You speak several languages, including Urdu, (I think) and you want to be here.
Who else wants to be here, speaks these languages and still has a few traditions from the 'old country'?(How many 'white' South Africans miss Africa when they come here?All of them).
The answer to the question is, 'other Pakistani immigrants'.
So they congregate peacefully in certain neighbourhoods, sometimes these being the ones which have always welcomed waves of immigration.
So you might get Irish, English, Pakistani and now Kosovan, all moving into and changing an area at different times.

Trouble is, some of these people decide to overpower the local customs and law, to turn that 'ghetto' into a private kingdom;like the Irish in Kilburn in London, or the West Indians (once upon a time) in Chapeltown, Leeds.

Liberal, soft societies are ripe for this sort of takeover, but it is not the fault of the ghetto as such.
It is the fault of a weak civic structure.
It can happen anywhere.
If you 'google' ghetto, the images are either Warsaw or various references to moronic rappers.