How well integrated(融入的) are British Muslims, in a social and economic sense(在社会和经济意义上)? Consider an ethnic(族裔的) group that is more than nine-tenths Muslim: the roughly 650,000 Bangladeshis of England and Wales.
英国穆斯林在社会和经济层面的融入程度究竟如何？不妨看看一个穆斯林占比超过九成的族群：英格兰和威尔士约65万孟加拉裔。
In 1987 the future Charles III visited Spitalfields(伦敦东区的历史移民聚居区) in east London, where many Bangladeshis had settled since 1945. He was horrified(大为震惊的). “They are working and living in conditions almost as bad as those on the Indian subcontinent(印度次大陆),” he said. “It really is not acceptable.” The Commission for Racial Equality, a public body, later pointed out that Bangladeshis had poor health and a desperately(极度地) low employment rate.
1987年，当时尚未登基的查尔斯三世到访伦敦东区的斯皮塔菲尔德，许多孟加拉裔自1945年起便在此定居。他大为震惊。他说：“他们的工作和生活条件几乎和印度次大陆一样糟糕。这实在令人无法接受。”公共机构“种族平等委员会”后来指出，孟加拉裔健康状况差，就业率极低。
Their attainment(学业成绩) in school was “very low indeed”, said a report for the government in 1985. Many children had migrated from rural Bangladesh, with little education. They spoke poor English. Some teachers expected little of(对……不抱期望) them. Their parents sent them to local schools, because they feared attacks by white racists.(父母把他们送进本地学校，是因为担心他们遭到白人种族主义者的袭击。)
1985年一份提交给政府的报告称，他们的学业成绩“确实非常低”。许多孩子来自孟加拉国农村，几乎没有受过教育，英语也说得很差。一些老师对他们不抱什么期望。父母把他们送进本地学校，是因为担心他们遭到白人种族主义者的袭击。