Well...that is for you to wonder Naomi !
Mostly through my days in BT. I met my Hindu friends when I was on secondment up in Town, in the late 80's. It turned out that this Hindu chap
( a Jain actually ! ) lived just 2 streets away from where I was born and brought up in Wembley. We have remained friends ever since. A few years ago, I was invited to their sons wedding, which was held in Woburn Abbey.
Quite the grandest wedding that I have ever been to !
I may have given a slightly wrong impression of my home town though.
We are a University town.... in fact we have three Colleges here, and one of them is closely linked to China, in a twinning arrangement. I am not sure if official stats really shows this mix, as quite a lot of our foreigners are somewhat transient, being students. We have a small Asian population, of both Hindu and Muslim varieties, and a Chinese community. We also have a growing Eastern European community, mostly but not exclusively Polish. You can eat at a huge range of Ethnic restaurants, and we have some wonderful Asian food supermarkets.
In common with lots of places in South Wales, we have a small but thriving Italian community, mainly coming from the fact that many Italian POW's didn't return home after 1945, but stayed and opened cafes, ice cream parlours and bakeries.
And I can honestly say I have never come across any racial tension, or problems here.
But when Cardiff comes West to play The Swans in football, blood and guts have been know to flow !