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A famous Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon   white (If you’re French,  it means British/American, or “unacceptably capitalist”.)

disjointed: As David Cameron admits that Britain is DISJOINTED by mass immigration, Ruth Dudley Edwards examines the consequences of our LAX policies. (What is all this code for? See COHESIVE, STABLE.)

diversity
   people who are different from us

divisive: “immigrants who don’t integrate have a divisive influence” (Yougov poll) = will cause other sections of society to be prejudiced against them/resentful of them/violent towards them.

ethnic  
black, racial

fractured: Who is to blame for FRACTURED Britain? headline in Daily Telegraph April 14 2011
Highland clearances
   ethnic cleansing

inclusion
   including black people (the Oscars)

integration
   you become like us

mainstream/hard-working majority
    People who
have fears about immigration, according to  Gordon Brown

metropolitan
   being too tolerant, not being racist enough

mixed
   "You may be happy to live in a socially mixed area, but not every potential buyer will feel the same." property writer Rosie Millard in the Times Aug 10

multicultural
   multiracial

multicultural society
   the wider society accepts other cultures and puts them on a level with the indigenous society

multiculturalism
   “members of minority races being judged by different standards according to their ‘culture’.” Times June 08 Norman Tebbitt doesn’t like “two parallel cultures. A society must have a dominant culture”. Feb 08  Abandon the failed experiment of “multiculturalism” with its politically correct requirement that mainstream social values and beliefs be downplayed in case they “offend” a minority group. We should be a tolerant society, but if we do not give proper respect to traditional British customs we risk creating a rudderless country with no common values. Norman Blackwell, The Times September 8, 2008

nationalistic
   racist

other cultures
right-wingers such as the CSU’s Horst Seehofer want to stop all immigration from “other cultures” – code for Turks and Arabs

populist
   nationalistic

problem
     A friend moved to France, and a neighbour told her "We don’t have much of an Algerian problem here." He meant: "There aren't many Algerians here."

socially mixed   
"You may be happy to live in a socially mixed area, but not every potential buyer will feel the same." Rosie Millard in the Times Aug 2010

stereotype
    racist stereotype

tensions
   racial hatred and violence

tranquillity   
"We felt so lucky to live here with the tranquillity. Now it’s a nightmare." Villager from Hemley Hill, where travellers have moved in.

trouble    
This morning my neighbour asked me how we were coping. Unsure of what she meant, she commented on the "trouble" in the community. Most of what she said is not worth mentioning in detail, except that it was thinly veiled racism and classism. (Christian blog)

urban, street   
black (music, fashion)