Re: Well, obviously

You seem to trying to draw a parallel between British colonialism in India and emigration of ethnic minorities to the UK. It's true that British colonialism involved white Britons going to live in India. But the reason this was colonialism, and not emigration, was that it was part of a national program of resource extraction. Ethnic minorities in the UK are not part of any such program. They are relocating permanently, not being sent to serve as part of any program operated by the governments of the nations from which they come. I suppose you might argue that some immigrants in the UK send money home, and maybe they do. (The Mexican economy has some degree of dependence, for example, on funds sent to families in Mexico by relatives who have emigrated to the US.) But calling this colonialism completely misunderstands the nature of a phenomenon, European colonialism, that characterized an entire historical epoch. Colonialism was not migration, and migration is not colonialism. hugzu ;-p