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You're right that discrimination in any form is bad, but compared with any other country I've visited, I'd happily say that Britain has managed to accomodate the various waves of post-war immigration in a way that a number of its neighbours would do well to copy. Britain is far from perfect in this respect, but then immigration will never give rise to a perfect scenario. It's all about coping and when you consider that most immigrants move to areas that are already quite poor, I'm quite proud of the way in which those British people already living in these areas have generally accepted the situation.
Saying that, this may well change as the forces of political correctness squash any white-led discussion of immigration with often petty claims of rascism. Recent parliamentary successes by far right parties such as the BNP are, in my opinion, a direct response not to increases in Britain's immigrant population, but to what has effectively become an unofficial taboo on the discussion of race issues by the more mainstream parties.
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