Most of my extended family live in what could be called a "ghetto" in North London - i.e. almost everyone in their area is Indian (with some Jewish streets) and everyone they socialise with. I'm somewhat at a loss as to what to think about it. On the one hand, I do find it genuinely shocking that my cousins went to schools where there was no mixing between different races and, even more shocking, that this continued at their universities. But, on the other hand, I don't get any sense from my extended family that they wanted, at any point, to "mix" more with whites and it's very clear that they actively avoid blacks and muslims.It's worth reading the whole thing, though I'd take issue with the idea that the community where Shreena's extended family live "could be called a 'ghetto'." It sounds like an insular community, for sure, but it doesn't come across like a ghetto.
This is a ghetto.
