London's most frequent surnames.

[Beorn]

that pic was just exaggeration obviously

Obviously it wasn't. It is the most popular surnames. If you click the link and peg back to the 2nd, to the 3rd, to the 4th, etc...most popular surnames, then you start to see the demographics of London shift, probably more to how you perceive it.

[Humanophage]

'The red dots represent white people, the blue dots black people, the green represent the (south) Asian categories, and there are a much smaller number of purple ones in there that represent mixed-ethnicity or 'other', such as Chinese.'

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That is an excellent, excellent map. Especially interesting if combined with http://www.londonprofiler.org/

Say, black and white population and crime:


I wish the map was around when I was looking at the riots.

[Minesweeper]

Looks like London's future is not so bright. In a decade or two, you'll experience Kosovo yourself if you don't do something about it.

[Nairi]

A little bit offtopic but still...

English people are very friendly and very polite. I lived there for 7 years and I find English people to be the most polite people in the world.And the most smiley people. During 7 years I never met any stranger who didn't smile when we met with eyes, both genders, any age. Even when I looked out of the window strangers smiled and said "hello". And no, I don't look funny It is just they are very kind hearted people.And very hepful.

[European Loyalist]

Nothing new in Londonistan.

The first time I went to London I was 7 (this was 1999). One day my dad had to go to an internet cafe, and I tagged along. I remember looking at the keyboards and seeing squiggly characters superimposed on the regular keys, and thinking "what the hell is that?". It was, of course, arabic...

[Supreme American]

Patel sounds like something from/near the Indian subcontinent. What a shame.