Economist: Det hvite East End dør
Economists julenummer forteller historien om begravelsesagenten T. Cribbs & Son, og gjennom dette hvordan Londons East End og cockney-kulturen er i ferd med å dø ut. Den fire siders artikkelen er vakkert skrevet, mollstemt men også med håp for fremtiden, og presenterer mange tankevekkende innsikter i overgangen fra den gamle til den nye tid. Etpar utdrag:
"The mourners then clambered aboard and the cortege set off at the 30-miles-per-hour speed limit. But it was not fast enough for a couple of bikers, who roared past on the inside. “Foreigners, probably,” muttered Paul Topp, an old-timer at Cribb’s, driving the lead limousine. “You’d not have seen that years ago. Everyone used to stop, bow their heads, take off their hats. There’s no respect now.”
It is likely they were foreigners. Only 17% of the inhabitants of Newham, the East End borough where Billy lived and died, are classified as “white British”. It is the epicentre of the mass immigration that has transformed many British cities in recent decades. (...) Between 2001 and 2011, Newham lost 37% of its white British residents. Most went east, to the leafier suburbs of Essex, either because they did not like their new neighbours or in search of a better life. (...)
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