Last Whites of the East End

[Hoppipolla]

OK so this is a bit old now but I suddenly have some interest in it.

I didn't watch it before because it sounded too depressing, but I recently learned that it's not that the whites in the East End died out! Many/most just moved out in white flight to places like Essex, apparently!

I'm not expecting people to watch it all of course! I just thought it was interesting.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na_wxwhgDMA

 

[Hoppipolla]

I guess in this case you can make an argument that house/rent prices were a big part of it. But that doesn't explain places like Bradford.

 

[Hoppipolla]

There's an interview with a couple of the remaining "eastenders" in the full version of this video:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5VQ6zpyjy0

It's behind a paywall though.

It was sad. They seem pretty devastated.

Imagine having your entire local culture totally transformed. Until it's like you and your remaining friends are almost trying to survive in what remains of your hometown.

It's not like the immigrants become just like them. I think a lot of people would have been ok with it if it was just skin colour and that's it. But the entire culture changes and not only that but it becomes a mish-mash of new cultures, where once there was the one single culture before mass immigration truly began.

Really amazing thing.

Another youtuber I watch (ramzpaul) left Colorado for Arkansas for the same reason. So odd when your hometown has changed so much that somewhere totally different actually now resembles it more.

I guess that can be the case when anything changes. Something new can resemble the way it was better than it now does.

 

[RandomGuy]