Adopting Britain
On the 5th September, after visiting the British Museum we moved to the Southbank Centre to see an exhibition called "Adopting Britain".As reported from the major news issuers, immigration has been a hot theme recently for Europe and Britain. We daily hear and read of thousand of desperate migrants escaping from their home countries and looking for hope and maybe a new "home" in Europe.
The exhibition shows and tells us about migration in Britain in the past and nowadays, with stories of immigrants from Middle-Eastern and other European countries. Some statistics are shown about how Britain contributed in Europe and in the world as new "migrants home".
As an immigrant in this country I feel even more involved in this theme and interested by the stories of migrants that are now integrated and living here.
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The two pictures above contains and exhibit experiences and stories or migrants and visitors all over the world. I see this walls as a sort of "feedback" from them as well.
Italians have been, in the past and in the present, one of the many population to immigrate in Britain. They mostly came from southern Italy, and they did not bring their families or relatives only but unobtainable supplies like olive oil, pasta, coffee and exotic vegetables as well. Local British shopkeepers used to call this kind of food "nasty foreign muck".
Numerous new communities started to spring up around London like the Luton and Dunstable one shown in the picture below.
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