(Never provide proof if your goal isn't to start an argument in my book)...
You know, that viewpoint explains a lot.
If you make a claim, you should support it, otherwise you're just talking out your arse, really.
I'd have asked this question there, but there seems to be an outright denial that racial tension exists in the UK, so this would have caused a flame war.
Why were there soooooo many Race Riots in the UK in the 80s? (actually not even the UK... just England) Typically Race Riots quiet down after a bit and don't chain into another race riot unless there is something seriously wrong. A few of these were pretty much back to back.
I mean GOODNESS!!!
Judging by some of the info it might have to do with economics... (YEP! Economic pressure! in the 1980s!)
England population in 1981: 45,978,080
Scotland population in 1981: 5,035,000
Wales population apparently hasn't increased since 1961: 2,644,000
In 2001 2% of Scotland's population was of a
ethnic minority (i.e not just black); I can't imagine it was any larger in 1981. In Wales in 2001, 0.2% of the Welsh population was black. It may very well have been there wasn't
enough of a ethnic population elsewhere to run into the same issues back in the 1980s.
There were riots because it was a miserable, grinding recession with huge levels of unemployment, levels of unemployment and crime were particularly high in a lot of poverty-stricken black neighbourhoods, which were probably not really present in Scotland and Wales, and there was distrust and dislike between black communities and police.
And there you go, question answered.
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