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  Perhaps you were unlucky to experience it so insensitively. When I lived in London (many years ago) the multi-cultural effect was lovely! I think it was because the immigrant populations (jncluding my own Irish community) respected the "host" country and worked at self-support and integration without losing their own roots. We didn't expect the UK to bend to our will, although clearly we expected the same respect we gave the UK -sadly that was not always forthcoming and as a child I have memories of being spat at and verbally abused by Brits for my parents origins. But the overall effect was marvellous - we had jamaican and west indian food shops, colour, art, lots of chatter in different languages, and it all seemed to work really well on the whole. I still think it was around the respect thing and hte acknowledgment that the host country was the dominant culture (of course!!!) and that given the space to retain each cultures individuality it did not need to impact negatively on the host nation.

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