21 December 2009

Segregation in Bradford

It's been a few weeks since I swapped my cosmopolitan London home for Bradford. Despite the fact that I was born here, I can't deny harbouring prejudices built up during a 25-year absence.

Perhaps I even bought into the Bradistan mythology that envelops this northern industrial city, notorious for polarised Asian, predominantly Muslim, and white communities living in what is a bi-cultural rather than multicultural society. [Guardian Cif] Read more