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New citizens from the cultures of Eastern Europe People whose origins lie outside Europe are not the only ones whose culture differs significantly from that of white Britain. If one reason for activities that promote inter-cultural understanding is the need to combat discrimination, it is important to be aware of Eastern Europe.

People whose origins lie outside Europe are not the only ones whose culture differs significantly from that of white Britain. If one reason for activities that promote inter-cultural understanding is the need to combat discrimination, it is important to be aware of Eastern Europe.

* There was considerable hostility to asylum seekers from that region in the late 1940s. In our own time many of the tabloid press have expressed anxiety about the large numbers of people able to come here from Eastern Europe to seek work since their countries joined the European Union. People from those countries have their own cultures, expressed in food, traditional dress, music, their own ways of practising their religion (mainly Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and Islam), and sometimes their own written script.

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