In July, this Colombian cleaner will have been in London for four years. He left Valencia, a city on the Spanish Mediterranean coast where he had settled after leavig Colombia in 2000 and came to London with the hope of finding work. The crisis in Spain has forced him […]
Author: The Prisma
Is multiculturalism utopian, and therefore intolerant?
This might sound totally paradoxical and contradictory, for how can a society that is mutually tolerant of multiple cultures, be intolerant? Nigel Pocock Some have argued that such an utopian vision of society could not be achieved without imposition from above. Given that there would no doubt be many […]
Alejandra: “What I most like about London is the people’s kindness”
The Ecuadorian is well aware of what it means to change your country of residence and culture. By the age of twenty she had already done it twice: first to Spain and then to the United Kingdom. The first time her parents broke the news to her she was […]
Multiculturalism: Creative new society, or a dead ‘tolerance’?
Taken on its own, the term ‘multicultural society’ has no practical use. It is a non-criticisable and non-falsifiable chameleon that changes its colour with its environment. That is, unless it is made predictable, at least for the purposes of testing. Nigel Pocock We might, for example, wish to […]
Joel Hernández: From one big city to another
Age 29 and with a stable job at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico, Joel Hernández decided to leave home and expand on his skills by studying a postgraduate degree in London. Around 298,000 students from outside the EU were enrolled in British educational institutions during […]
















