since telling my dad of marital problems, hes been doing my head in with his constant rhetoric. He wants me to quit my job and move close to them in this very tight knit community with very few white people around. Not only am I so happy where I work, at last I am working somewhere I love, but the thought of living near my controlling father scares me.
And theres another reason, I am quite against living in segregated communities. I have blogged before about the problems I have faced living where I am where I am one of the few "forgein looking" people in this area and the racism that I feel towards me and my headscarf. Although I believe we can learn alot from multicultuarilism, I feel that its getting increasingly harder for me to live here and can feel the forces pulling me to my parents side of town. I do believe that eventually its for the best if we stay here, especially for N who needs to be exposed to the real world, not this make believe one my family live in. I don't try to shove islam down peoples throats, but if anyone wants to hear I will talk. ANd I think thats the best way towards tolerism.
There was a programme on channel 4 about immigration: the inconvenient truth, where they commented on segration of communities. I feel it is hard to integrate if people in your area don't accept you, and its essentially peoples attitudes that lead to the integration problems we have today. Just a thought
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