> In US (and elsewhere in the world) it seems to be more accepted that natives deserve special protections and privileges. It isn’t more accepted, it is a diff

> In US (and elsewhere in the world) it seems to be more accepted that natives deserve special protections and privileges. It isn’t more accepted, it is a different situation where these natives were systematically wiped out and almost completely destroyed entirely. They are given special protections now (not privileges) because they are still feeling the very real effects of active cultural destruction, forced sterilizations, children kidnapped and put into “reeducation camps”, etc. The British government is not banning speaking English or forcing children to attend Islamic schools or banning white Britons from owning property. > I have family who live in an area which over the last few decades has become majority immigrant It sounds like what you mean is the neighborhood has become majority poor. The low-income immigrants moving in were likely an effect of, not a cause of, the neighborhood’s economic decline. Lack of economic opportunity is strongly correlated with crime, immigration status is not. > Now I'm in a middle-class area it's not something I worry about much anymore As I suspected. You should probably look into what city planning policies, or lack thereof, and other economic factors are allowing this kind of neighborhood disinvestment, and not blame the low income people who may or may not be immigrants that move to the housing that they can afford.