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Originally Posted by chikrodah
I live in a town where there has been an influx of Eastern Europeans. 99.9% of them are upstanding citizens - in fact, there's been more attacks on Eastern Europeans than by Eastern Europeans on "us Brits", locally. Both Polish and Portugese shops have been attacked by local yobs. No Poles or Portugese have been implicated in attacks on local shops. 
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Sadly, prejudice tends to make people shy away from evidence which does not support that prejudice- they must realise that this behaviour doesn't make that evidence go away though, it just makes people sceptical of everything they have to say, thereby invalidating any good points they have.