Why white boys dress like black boys: a study of the British Wigger Progress map

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'For decades politicians and sociologists have talked about how Britain integrates its minority communities - but how much does integration go the other way?'

BBC News: How brown is white Britain?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3745078.stm

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'"People are beginning to sound the same regardless of their colour or ethnic background," said Sue Fox, of London University's Queen Mary College, who is studying the phenomenon.

She ruled out suggestions that the language is simply the result of white youngsters trying to be cool.'

The Daily Mail: 'Jafaican' is wiping out inner-city English accents

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-382734/Jafaican-wiping-inner-city-English-accents.html

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'He said Davison would shout at him if he played his favourite music, which included black-influenced R&B and rap. 'He hated it,' he told the jury.

'He would call me a race traitor or a "wigger" [a white person who tries to imitate black culture]. I didn't want to lose my dad by not being the person he wanted me to be.''

The Daily Mail: Teenage racist faces joining his neo-Nazi father in jail after being convicted of terror charges

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270097/Neo-Nazi-Nicky-Davison-19-guilty-possessing-terror-manuals-planned-overthrow-Government-father.html

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'The biggest wigger in Britain, Westwood, the 52-year-old, privately educated son of a bishop, somehow morphed into a Jamaican patois speaking, jargon regurgitating gobshite with a fondness for gangsta clothes and dance music.'

The Irish Independent: Ian O'Doherty: OK, an apology to 'Indo' readers

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/ian-odoherty-ok-an-apology-to-indo-readers-2162298.html

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'What do you think of when you hear the phrase 'white working class'? Tattoos? Dangerous dogs? Shellsuits? Scratch cards? Chips? Binge drinking? The BNP? It would be no surprise if the images conjured are negative; in the past four decades, the image of the white working class has gone from hero to less than zero.'

The Guardian: How Britain turned its back on the white working class.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/02/britishidentity.guardiancolumnists