One in six people in London have admitted moving seats on public transport to avoid a passenger they think is Muslim, according to a survey published on Tuesday. Around 35 percent of travellers in London said they had felt nervous or uncomfortable in the last year because of someone with a south Asian or north African appearance on an underground train or bus. Of that number, nearly half said they had moved seats or sat down away from them, the survey, by pollsters YouGov for London's Evening Standard newspaper, suggested.
That could actually be the deodorant thing, though...
Maybe I shouldn't have brought that up. |
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