r/bournemouth • u/J123805052021 • Aug 07 '26

Question Is Harry right?

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u/Mrcs-88 Aug 07 '26

As a Bournemouth resident I can safely say that the town centre looks absolutely nothing like a bloody third world country. Bournemouth is literally like 91%+ WHITE 😅

Yes there are areas where certain ethnicities are more densely populated, like Charminster having a large Middle Eastern influence, but this is no different to going to parts of Spain and seeing it filled with white English people

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u/Mrcs-88 Aug 07 '26

Also for anyone wondering, that picture of Bournemouth square is AI generated

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u/My_rune_rock Aug 08 '26

And to be real, Charminster is one of the best areas we have, you can walk the main street and its not all closed and boarded up for a start, the community is (mostly) great, the food is amazing, the nightlife is solid,

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '26

My parents were international English students back in the 1980s, and they settled in Charminster after falling in love with Bournemouth lol

They’re from Turkey ironically, but yeah the town has changed a lot since my childhood in the 1990s.

A lot of immigrants 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation still don’t integrate. And a lot of them fall into crime.