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Bristol's home to over 450,000 people, hailing from over 187 different countries – you can find over 91 different languages spoken here, and 45 religions practised. To say it's a melting pot of diversity is an understatement. It adds up to a city that's international, welcoming and open to the new.
(Incidentally, like many other secular countries, freedom of religion is protected by law in Britain, meaning that no one religion is superior to another, let alone no religious groups allowed to have influence on government decision making, suppressing religious beliefs to the individual level, hence maintaining a secular society as a whole.)

If not for people like Mr Roy Hackett, today's liberal Bristol wouldn't have existed.


Who was Roy Hackett? Civil rights hero who led Bristol Bus boycott in 1963 dies aged 93

Tributes are being paid to the civil rights campaigner Roy Hackett who has died at the age of 93.

Roy Hackett was one of thousands of men who arrived in Britain in the 1950s in search of a better life and was eventually credited with helping to rewrite British law on race relations.

The activist has been described as a "symbol of courage" in his fight against racism and inequality in Bristol.

He was instrumental in the Bristol Bus boycott of 1963, which was called when the Bristol Bus Company refused to employ black and Asian drivers and conductors.

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Ryo1 8 Aug 3
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One of my student jobs was working for the Bristol bus company a few years after this happened. I feel a little bit ashamed that I can't remember the issue from the time, I was 15 in 1963 and taking the bus to school every day.

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What is odd is that the power that brutally colonized and mistreated, looted many countries in all 5 continents in the last 600 years, the power that lunched Christian crusades and burnt women and children at stake is now one of the least religious, more welcoming and humane that some of their own former colonies are to their own people.

Maybe it is proof of the rule that it has to get worse before it gets better?

Like the US that is regressing before beginning to progress?

@Ryo1

The progress is over, now the regress. We are over the hill according to many experts. The rising tigers are in Asia and Africa.

Unfortunately we now have a government that is trying to emulate Orban in Hungary and Putin in Russia in illiberalism. Slowly, it is moving in that direction. Our mini-Trump has been forced out of office, but by his own side - he is likely to be replaced by someone even worse.

@Severnman We'll see.

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