You couldn’t be more wrong. My parents were refugees and came here from Latvia and Ukraine when I was a young child. Latvia has Russians as almost 25% of their population. They don’t want to speak the language, they don’t want to integrate, they want to be Russian but living in Latvia because the quality of life is better and they get an EU passport. It’s not only people of colour who are an issue with integration.
England is not allowed a national identity because people are embarrassed by years of colonisation all over the world, they are trying to redeem themselves by insisting that the immigration in this country is normal with huge swathes of the population not integrating into society. But in the case of Latvia and Ukraine they don’t want to be anything but to be their own country. They want their identity back, their culture celebrated and language to be used. The UK is so brainwashed by its past that people can’t see past ‘racism’ for everything. I don’t condone racism but if people want to immigrate they need to integrate into that society, towns that become enclaves and ghettos are what drives racism. The UK has so many different people and races within it that you can meet people from anywhere in the world which is fantastic, but they need to intergrate and so many do not. It is becoming an issue across the EU and people are not happy about it. Another point would be Brits living in Spain in their little English enclaves - again the Spanish aren’t happy about it even though they’re white. It’s not the colour that is the issue- integration and not fitting into that countries’ identity.
As a child I remember when I first went to school and going to the shops with my mother - seeing and meeting Indian and Pakistani people and black people for the first time - like a time warp, a Soviet child never seeing people like this in their life. The cultural shock for me moving here was incredible. These days I have friends and colleagues who are black and Asian but as I child I would have never imagined this, it was not a cultural norm for me.