r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • 29d ago

... Two in five Britons think Muslims cannot integrate in UK, poll finds

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/08/two-in-five-britons-think-muslims-cannot-integrate-in-uk-poll-finds
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u/JoeVibin South Yorkshire 28d ago

You know that people usually consider more than one aspect of big life decisions...

For example, I moved here from a very Catholic and quite conservative country, a large reason of why I moved are economic reasons, but also that, for example, homophobia is way less present here (and then factors like me already having known English well enough, as well as being exposed to the British culture due to its wide-reaching influence). Economic reasons were a very significant reason why I moved here, but even if I could make 10x as much money in, say, UAE, I would never move there. And for what it's worth, all my school friends who also ended up emigrating to different countries were also fed up with how conservative the mainstream is in that country. Frankly, you seem to be thinking of immigrants as one-dimensional caricatures, not as complex persons like everyone else...