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An amusing post but flawed.

We are not tlaking about some sort of enforced apartheid here, we are talking about natural bonds and preferences.
Religion, culture and race are related to some extent as you well know but it is not a simple formula as you rightly suggest. There are quite clearly sociological and anthropological reasons why people like to live together or apart including long standing religious and historical ones. I'm not sure why you deny this or why you see it as some sort of ideological heresy.
It is what it is
Clealy you believe that my interpretation of the truth is tainted in some way but I would suggest to you that you entertain the idea that maybe your world view is equally if not more prejudiced.
There is no racial or religious prejudice in my observations. I am just saying things as I see them. My observations are supported by both anecdotal and statistical evidence. Yours I suspect are driven by uncontrolled ideological fantasy.

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Blimey,I must bow down to the king of objective rationality?!

Of course all our views are subjective and influenced by our ideological views,including your's.Indeed,very much including your's.

You suggest that because I don't agree people generally within in the UK today (which was the point of your posts) prefer to live apart on the basis of ethnicity,I am therefore a uncontrolled ideological fantasist.That's just plain silly...

As for your subjective view being backed up as you state by "statistical evidence",well on the basis of the only link you have posted so far...

Btw,the philosophical underpinning of Apartheid's ideologues was that the races supposedly preferred to live apart and "develop separately"....that was utilised by the group in question upon gaining power in 1948 to try and force increased such separation...The Afrikaans word "apartheid" literally translates into English as "separateness".

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And how is it going for them down in sunny South Africa since Apartheid was removed ? Have they all started living together in wonderful harmony ?

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Really ? I don't think we sustain it. Just the opposite. We resist natural leanings in the interests of commerce. Generally, people migrate to make money not to live with other races or nationalities. Sometimes they are escaping oppression from other religious groups or races. Hardly an obvious indication that a rainbow nation has ever or will ever work.
Remove one lot of reasons for division and we will invent some new ones. Assimilate one group of people and another will be lining up right behind them.

It is not a question of approval. Nature has divided humanity into so called races in the same way that it created dogs and cats. Differentiation is a fact of biology, and that must be reflected in human behaviour.
Race is just one of many differences that exist, or have been manufactured, that humans use as an excuse to divide themselves. History has shown that we divide ourselves out of choice, most likely driven by a natural instinct. The human brain has given us intelligence along with boundless stupidity and arrogance. Some of us think that we can interpret nature anyway we like to suit our own particular political agenda but the fact remains that the hidden forces of biology dictate our actions and thinking far more than most acknowledge or recognise. The evidence suggests that a desire to live in advantageous groups is part of that. Advantageous can mean adhering to racial, political or religious associations. Take it or leave it, I don't care.