Hi Ray
You must have some great Chinese food outlets.I loved the 1850 stats ! I think our Chinese people don't so often tend to be from mainland China, and they have been here for centuries. To be truthful, apart from areas where ethnic groups usually choose to be together due to religion or food shops, most places have such a mix of nationalities they don't tend to stand out. We simply have People.I don't think we think about it much at all.So long as they share our humour they'll be fine.Now you come to mention it I realise the Polish people seem to have left my area. Mind you Londoners are regarded as foreigners here..it's all of 100 miles away.We may have an advantage over Americans in that we tend to travel abroad as normal, so we have been in our migrants countries and know where they come from.We are so close.We have always had day trips to France for example.I used to love standing in Cologne station and seeing all the trains to Athens, Paris, Berlin etc and when I took the train from England I would catch the Moscow Train and get off in Cologne. Coming back I would be with the Russian Babushkas who had been on the train for a couple of days, sharing their little hampers of food and my German chocolate as they knitted away, chatting as we picked up the French and the Belgians who often added beer. Nice memories.Once, due to an engine catching fire I was with a man who was developing what we now know as NLP for around 8 hours. He was so interesting.
Yve