Melting pot Manchester stresses unity after concert attack
MANCHESTER, England — On the Manchester street they call the “Curry Mile,” there are no longer just Indian or Pakistani restaurants. A hungry diner can now choose Halal snacks from Beirut, kebabs from Afghanistan or garishly colored sweets from India, among many others.
Traffic along the busy road is just as varied — hipsters on vintage race bikes zoom past a mother in full-face veil pushing a stroller. A block away, Paulette Greig, the daughter of a Jamaican Indian and a white English woman, drinks water in the Albert Inn, a traditional English pub.
The kaleidoscope of Mancunians — as the city’s residents are known — reflects the proudly multiethnic city’s long history of welcoming migrants and, on the whole, successfully integrating them.
“Obviously, you get the odd idiot, but you get them everywhere,” Greig said.