LEE KUAN YEW: Five decades ago, London was a grimy, sooty, bomb-scarred city with less food, fewer cars, and deprived of the conveniences of the consumer society. But the people were homogeneous, white Christians, admirable, self-confident, courteous.

Lee Kuan Yew warned England about multiculturalism 25 years ago

"Five decades ago London had less food, less cars and was deprived of the modern consumer society. But the people were homogeneous, White, Christian, admirable, self-confident, courteous…" pic.twitter.com/ONBoEZHg5S

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Five decades ago, London was a grimy, sooty, bomb-scarred city with less food, fewer cars, and deprived of the conveniences of the consumer society.  But the people were homogeneous, white Christians, admirable, self-confident, courteous. From that well mannered Britain to the ________ football Hooligans of the 1990s took only 40 years.  I learned that civilized living does not come about naturally.  There have been other significant changes.  Britain is now multiracial, multilingual, multi-religious.  Churches are nearly empty on Sundays with many deconsecrated and converted into places of entertainment, while some 500 mosques are filled to  capacity on Fridays, the Muslim Sabbath, and so also are many Hindu temples and places of worship of other religions.  Well, part of the future . . .