How has migration shaped multicultural societies?

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Until the eighteenth century...
...the only non-christian religion that most Europeans had come into contact with peacefully was Judaism
Second half of the twentieth century...
...significant numbers of immigrants came from elsewhere to settle in Britain
What did some people assume about immigrants?
that they would become fully assimilated British culture
Many immigrants retained their own cultural identity
what was seen in the 1980s?
general recognition of multiculturalism
What did some see multiculturalism as?
a threat to national values and traditions
argued that Britain was a Christian country