Anything else, they reckoned, would be to accept ethnic cleansing.
But her relations with other, more accepted, ethnic groups are also delicate.
"Just after the British handover, many schools did not accept ethnic minorities because we could not read and write Chinese," said Mr. Abbas, who grew up speaking Urdu and English.
Moreover, the results of the scenario experiments indicate that the menu design format can serve as a tool not only to increase customers' willingness to accept ethnic foods, but also to reduce the perceived risks of trying ethnic foods.
On The Politics Show on 9 March 2003, he appeared to accept ethnic minorities who were already legally living in the country, and, on 6 March 2008, he was again interviewed on Newsnight; when told of a poll that demonstrated that most working-class Britons were more concerned about drugs and alcohol than immigration, he linked the UK's drug problem with Islam, specifically Pakistani immigrants.
However, over the past 25 years Germans have become less accepting of ethnic minorities who pursue traditional lifestyles, with fewer citizens agreeing that "immigrants add to the cultural life in Germany".
Under an implicit "social contract", the two minorities, mostly descended from migrant workers, were given citizenship in return for accepting that ethnic Malays and other indigenous groups, together known as bumiputras (sons of the soil), would enjoy privileged access to state jobs and education.
The results empirically suggest that increasing familiarity with Korean culture through exposure to Korean lifestyles, music, movies, and soap operas could alleviate food neophobia as a barrier to accepting novel ethnic foods.
In fact, the varying treatment that Syrians receive from the Turkish authorities based on their religion and ethnicity makes them accept an ethnic identity beyond their Syrian identity while seeking refuge in Turkey (BGST, 2015).
