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The affected and ‘ ghettoised ’ communities are often largely representative of Pakistanis, Indians and other Sub-Continentals as well as Afro-Caribbeans and other blacks, with skin colour often being a determinant, although the percentage of The United Kingdom's working and poorer class is predominantly white.

Such racial segregation has widely been thought to be the basis of growing ethnic tensions, a measurable deterioration in race relations in poorer areas, a deterioration of the standard of living and levels of education and employment among ethnic minorities in poorer areas as well as being a main precursor to recent race riots.

Most British commentators claim it is false the riots were due to a breakdown of multiculturalism alone and instead is more likely to have been caused by other factors such as disillusioned youth, high unemployment and a growing attraction to ' gangsta ' culture by a sizeable proportion of the youth, across all ethnicities, of The United Kingdom.