ABSTRACT
Britain is a multicultural society. For centuries, people have come to this country in search of work or employment, a better quality of life, or as refugees from political, racial or religious persecution; for example, immigrants from Eastern Europe (e.g. Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Estonians, Hungarians) and also Italians, Spaniards, Greeks, Chinese, Malays, Kenyans, German Jews, etc. Many of these people have sought to sustain a separate cultural identity at a distance from the indigenous culture of Britain. However, the most common connotations of multiculturalism in Britain focus upon groups from South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and from the former British colonies in the Caribbean, who form the largest ethnic minorities in Britain.
