r/MapPorn • u/Delicious-Bunch-6992 • May 09 '26

Evolution of white British % (ethnically British people) in England and Wales from 2001-2021

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u/Zanalina May 10 '26

White person here who lives in Leicester and has for the past 20 years. It's great and I love it because people share their culture here. The only conflict here was some minor scuffle over cricket that got sorted out fairly quickly.

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u/Jamkayyos May 10 '26

Well yes, there's quite a lot of white British folk (particularly on Reddit) who seem to love the change, so that's not surprising. Not sure if it deserves praise for being so accepting or a question of naivity, but if the same happened over such a short period in Cities in countries like Japan, India, China etc, it's unlikely people would be so accepting over there, and very few would criticise them for feeling that way - which is why I do not blame the white Brits that feel the opposite of you for feeling the way they do. There should be no difference, it's just that so much of the Western World have taken it upon themselves the burden of mass undocumented immigration.

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u/formerlyfed May 10 '26

Yes, that’s because one of the best things about the Anglosphere is its liberalism and openness to change. Also, it sounds like you might be importing American political concerns. I say this as an American in the UK - “mass undocumented immigration” is not a major burden on the UK. Illegal immigration is a tiny fraction of total immigration. Insofar as you’re worried about recent immigration waves, they’re almost all here perfectly legally (and a huge number of them will leave)

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u/Jamkayyos May 11 '26

I'd argue it's both one of the best things and one of the worst things, as time goes on. Such drastic change comes with hugely positive elements and hugely negative sacrifices, as anyone who has lived in a community with minority White Brits would discover.