00:00The make-up of many areas in England and Wales is changing.
00:05Almost half of people from ethnic minorities now live in areas where white British people
00:10are the minority.
00:12One of those areas is the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
00:16People that live here, traditionally, are English people, they become like, you know,
00:24needles in a haystack, so to speak.
00:26I don't see that so many people, lots of white people go outside.
00:28But in some areas, the pace of change is rapid.
00:32One of the reasons is because some British people who are white are choosing not to move
00:37to areas where they would be in the minority, while others are choosing to move away.
00:42I've had family, most of my family have moved away because of it.
00:46They've moved out to Tilbury, Dagenham, places like that.
00:51Why is that?
00:52Because they feel like they're a minority now.
00:55I just love the variety of nationalities and the different organisations that people have.
01:03When Trevor Phillips was the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, he gave this warning.
01:08We are sleepwalking our way to segregation.
01:12That speech was made eight years ago.
01:15We are seeing this much greater concentration in some of the towns and cities.
01:20And I think that is something we should worry about.
01:22As recently as 2001, the last census found only 25% of the ethnic minority population, one million
01:32people, 25% of a much smaller ethnic minority population then, lived in areas that were majority-minority,
01:40where the white British population were in a minority.
01:43Only 25%.
01:44It's gone up from 25% to 45% in just 10 years.
01:50The research also shows that some rural areas are becoming more diverse.
01:55It is another example of the changes happening across England and Wales.
02:01Stephen Douglas, Sky News, Central London.
02:04That's all at the University of Ontario, Sydney.
02:04Look at the University of Toronto, Sydney University in Oregon.
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