Figure 1.--As an American visitor I was struck by the almost make up of the schiils by children of native British ancestry. Almost the entire student population was of European British ancestry. Most schools, however, had a few students of other ancestry. Here there were both foreign children including a few Americans and British children of other etnicity. |
As an American visitor I was struck by the almost make up of the schiils by children of native British ancestry. Almost the entire student population was of European British ancestry. Most schools, however, had a few students of other ancestry. Here there were both foreign children including a few Americans and British children of other etnicity. We saw almost no children of Caribbean ancestry or African ancestry, although there were a few foreign african children. There were a few British children of South asian ancestry. There were also a few oriental children. These children of ethnic minorities, however, were a very small part of the school population. We assume this reflects the overall social economuc trends as for the most part ethnic minorities in Britain have lower income levels than the overall population and the fees at these schools are considerable. While there were only very small numbers of minority children, as best we could tell the minority children felt confortable and were well integrated into school life. The children seem to accept the children without any apparent consideration of etnicity.
