ABSTRACT
Immigrants to Britain bring with them norms acquired in the homeland. The people who are natives of the receiving society are, for their part, confronted by strangers who appear to be ignorant of many of the most basic social decencies. It is customary in the United Kingdom to be more concerned about the prejudice of the British against immigrants, and to be less concerned about prejudice of immigrants against Britons. When discrimination is related to differences between groups which include differences in skin colour, the issue becomes one not merely of discrimination against one group by another, but of racial discrimination. Even in the subjective domain of feelings, identity and the like, alienation may have a concrete base, or concrete consequences. One effect of the kinds of estrangement or alienation from the British society, both tangible and intangible, is a tendency for immigrants to cluster together in ethnic communities. These develop into something approaching ghettoes.
