Britain, a diverse country for decades, is now superdiverse
The change is mostly good
A PLACARD IN front of Willesden Food Centre, a convenience store in north-west London, advertises the following kinds of food: Afghan, African, Albanian, Arabic, Brazilian, Bulgarian, English, Greek, Iranian, Latvian, Pakistani, Polish, Romanian and Turkish. The shopkeeper might wish to add more countries to the list, but he has run out of space.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Here comes everyone”
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