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racist britain Source: SBS

After a spike in racism following the UKs vote to leave the European Union. Indeed its not made people racist all of a sudden, but nowdays they speak out their racism.


his is the kind of abusive language some people in Britain are increasingly facing, both in person and online.

 

There was a 400 per cent rise in hate crime in the week after the European referendum according to police.

Criminologist Dr Imran Awan says research shows people dressed in traditional Islamic dress are more likely to be racially targeted.

 

We completed a study recently and a number of the people we spoke to talked about being called ISIS scum, Dr Awan says.

 

In other cases, one lady said somebody told her she had bomb under her headscarf and somebody else had her headscarf pulled off and told she should go back to the Middle East.


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