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Not much has really changed since those far off days. My wife is Hong Kong Chinese holding a British National Overseas passport (her full British passport having been taken away due to fears of Britain being overrun by Chinese). We have been together for 16 years and married for 8 yet the process we had to go through for me to bring her with me to my homeland was onerous and invasive to be polite about it. Even after all we went through to get "permission" for us to live together we were only granted 27 months and have to go through it all again in a year's time. I thought we had learned the lessons of the past and were a true multi-racial society. I have only one polite answer to that - poppycock !

Why is the BBC wasting money on a such a broken and forgotten about subject at a time when the Government is trying to save tax payers money ? Multiculturalism does not work in this country. Mr. Cameron is right about that. Expensive and long winded television reports of this sort only add to everyone's misery. I am not a member of BNP or some other organisation of that sort but I can see why they are gaining so much ground in a country where rioting in the streets or other unrest is considered to be normal. Perhaps it might have been a more appropriate to show someone slapping their own bald head to music ? Someone in the background to singing with words like "Lah ! Lah ! La La La !. The deep fried Mars bar could be discussed by someone like Raymond Blanc as a way of showing that multiculturalism works in England.

Thank you for providing me with interesting and vital background information for my dissertation. As a British girl who is currently in a relationship with a guy from Pakistan, I have become increasingly interested in multiculturalism and cultural hybridity. I find the subject rather interesting, and dream of the day of when I and my partner will have children. I have learnt a lot already in this first episode and very much looking forward to the other two episodes!

My grandmother (Welsh) married my grandfather (west indian) in 1921 and she also related to me how difficult it was in those days. Often she would not be served in shops and was often rebuked in the street. I always felt she was a person ahead of the times. When I was in school as a small child often my teachers would make nasty comments about my family in front of the whole class. Myself I felt nothing was abnormal I was brought up in a very loving family environment and as my grandparents had 9 children they related that it was very difficult for them too. However, later in years the family was respected by the community. It was felt in the past that people of different ethenicity was coming in and taking the jobs of the british people yet nothing has changed this is still being said and people actually believe this. When will people actually realise that if they want to work it is there. Multicultural society has actually provided so much to this country and we should learn by the past that these people have so much to offer. If we did not have them many businesses would not survive. Where would we be without this?

The programme was really informative and revealed the truth behind mixed marriages. I have been in a mixed marriage for nearly 30 years with two great sons and one grandchild, mixed West Indian, Italian and British! I remember my Father telling me that mixed race children grew up muddled, not knowing where they belong. This has certainly never been the case and my family is a happy, enriched and loving one. I take my hat off to all those women who were strong enough to withstand the ridiculous onlslaught they had to put up with for loving another human being of their choice. Well done BBC, about time the truth was heard.