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Subject: A Recent Social Survey of Britain
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 12:35:21 EDT
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	From the Jersey Journal (New Jersey) Thursday, August 30, 1984
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	A recent study published in England by Social and Community Planning,
a research group contained the following results:

		The influx of Asians, Africans and West Indians into Britain
	has increased racial discord, especially in urban areas. Thus 90% of
	the British polled acknowledged that prejudice exists and 30% admitted
	that they themselves are biased against immigrants.
		This attitude is partly related to unemployment which has
	reached record highs. But 70% of the British maintain that job
	opportunities are a function of social class, an indication that they
	still consider Britain to be a bastion of priviledge determined by
	birth, wealth and education.
		Of those polled, 65% of men questioned confessed to driving
	under the influence of alcohol.
		Though they adore military pageantry, the British have little
	sympathy for the armed forces. Only 28% favor the presence of troops
	in Northern Ireland, the scene of civil strife, and would welcome a
	British withdrawal from the area.
		The richest country in Europe 25 years ago, Britain currently
	ranks below France and West Germany, its standard of living roughly
	on a par with that of Spain and Italy. Its per capita income puts it
	in a bracket with Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and a former colony,
	Hong Kong.
		Stripped of their empire, in short, the British have slid
	sharply down the economic scale, and the glory of their past is just
	a memory.