\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over\u00a0my one-pound-fifty take-out lunch that I brought back to the garden, Megan and I discussed\u00a0last week’s\u00a0blog topic: identity and immigration. “I just have no idea where I’m going to take this,” I said. “We’ve done so much reading about this already, I just feel like I have nothing new to say.” Megan agreed, saying that she felt as though she had done all the research, knew all the background information, and was just struggling to “find a conclusion.” I think we both really\u00a0had\u00a0valid points here.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is impossible to form any sort of thesis about identity and immigration in London because of the essence of London. It is, according to one of our\u00a0Guardian readings on race,\u00a0“a city with immigrants” rather than “a city of immigrants,” like New York. London is definied by its ever-shifting immigrant populations. If one were to establish some sort of grasp on what immigration means to London today, and what London means to immigrants today, it would shift within a matter of years and become obsolete. Immigration is part of what\u00a0makes London London, and therefore, there is nothing\u00a0new to say about it because it has always been this way, and will continue to be.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps this blog is too short, perhaps some of you will think it was ill-structured, poorly thought-out or had no new ideas\u00a0to\u00a0introduce to the reader. Well, you may be right. However, over-analyzing immigrant populations – identifying where the Afro-Caribbean communites or the Polish communities\u00a0or the Jewish,\u00a0Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani communities are located\u00a0– only serves to further isolate these populations from one another and from the rest of British culture. We’ve discussed the topic to death. What we need to do now is look at the issue\u00a0from a new vantage point, or even better, from no vantage\u00a0point at all. If we accept immigrants as Londoners, and cease to discuss these populations as separate entities, then the possibility of a new London would be possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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