http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/ha000024.html
A. Sivanandan
"The problem in Britain is that the government has allowed these European preoccupations - which come out of totally different histories and struggles - to contaminate our debate. Assimilation was something that Britain consciously rejected in favour of integration as far back as forty years ago. In (one-time Labour Home Secretary) Roy Jenkins' classic definition, integration is 'not a flattening process of assimilation but equal opportunity accompanied by cultural diversity in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance'. "
