Sunday, October 08, 2006

Spread of race ghettos fuels gang warfare / Sunday Telegraph, 8 Oct 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2393806,00.html
Shiv Malik
"AN east London teenager who became a drug dealer and a knife-wielding member of a street gang lays the blame on the transformation of his neighbourhood into an ethnic minority “ghetto” where turf warfare flourishes. “I fell in with the wrong crowd,” said Syed Miah, 19, who regrets his life of crime. “Before, it was mixed and you would get to know other people, but now no one meets anyone. You grow up with this mentality that ‘we’re Bangladeshis, whites are whites and blacks are blacks’.”