7 Warm welcome

Immigrants, far away from home, may find Christmas a difficult time.

Therefore, local communities may invite immigrants to celebrate Christmas together.  

If you were the journalist, would you stress that the immigrants were “coloured” and British people “[gave them] the chance” to adopt English customs?

Reference:

Wheeler, Katrina Jennie-Lou, 'The Reformation and Early Modern Periods', in The Oxford Handbook of Christmas, ed. by Timothy Larsen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)

'Party Plan’, Daily Mail, p.7 (8 October 1956)

Evans, Peter, ‘English self-help for Asians’, The Times, p.4 (11 December 1969)