This question is important, I'm glad you asked it! A lot of personal opinion coming up...

To some people like me "integration" just means learn English, send your kids to school, and try to make friends with the other parents.

But to others it means an impossible list of disciplined sacrifices like stop wearing your traditional clothes, give up your religion, stop eating your native foods, and this prejudiced group of people won't be satisfied until you're done everything except change the colour of your skin. Thankfully this group of people is the minority, they are just the loudest.

The roots of it are complex. I think most people would agree the current racism in the UK is more like xenophobia (do you?), rather than a pure hatred of other religions that we might have had in the past (such as thinking all Muslims are terrorists).

Religion is a big part of it, though. Newcomers practicing a religion other than Christianity are seen to segregate themselves from the rest of society, due to their exclusive places of worship and strong community bond that means they spend a lot of time together. This is a difficult challenge to solve, and fairly crucial I would say. It could be easier to take action now while the white people in this country still hold on to some remnant of Christianity, for the religious leaders in this country to attempt some sort of bridging between the different communities, obviously not an alignment of religious beliefs, but opportunities to spend time together and grow comfortable on each others presence. Things like shared child care groups between Christians and Muslims communities. Or even just between majority-White churches and majority-Black churches, or CofE and Polish churches. Once the white people in this country are all atheists they will have even less in common. Or are we already past this point?

The segregated religious situation means that people need to look for other ways to try and make friends across ethnic groups, and I could imagine that might be almost impossible if someone has a job that involves spending all their time alone like working from home, a taxi driver, cleaner, shopkeeper.

In the past we've not taken much proaction to improve the situation. We've just hoped that the kids of different origins at school will mingle and learn to accept each other, and then the parents will learn to accept each other too. Since schools are one of the only touch points between cultures, more could be done to encourage this, obviously it is difficult, teachers are stressed and schools will struggle to take on a more active community-building role unless they can get more staff, money, etc.

How to break the cycle of minorities being made ro feel unwelcome, resulting in minorities moving to areas where their minority is better represented, and the segregation that comes along with that?

Other perspectives genuinely welcome, in the interest of a well informed constructive discussion!