ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to try to understand the way of life in the home country of four groups of coloured immigrants in Britain: Africans, West Indians, Indians, and Pakistanis. This is a convenient example of the psychological differences possible between European and non-European groups - and hopefully lessons learnt can be generalized to, say immigrant groups in the US A, Canada, Israel and Australia. The greater one's understanding of the patterns of culture of coloured people - particularly intimate patterns with long-term psychological effects on the people concerned - the more adequate the provisions which can be made for the stranger, the assumption being that under favourable conditions culture contact must result in gains for both host and immigrant communities.
