The survey found that young people in the south of England tend to think that those in the north are not fully English. "They are English to an extent," said one London young woman, "but when you go up north it's really different."
Samantha Hyde, acting director of the Camelot Foundation, says: "There is this virtual reality with MySpace which gives some sense of sharing, but young people still have no real understanding of what it is like for their peers in other areas."
Hyde was shocked by black and minority ethnic young people's perception of how they are seen by the white community: "Young Asian girls in Glasgow were saying if things carry on as they are they will end up being sent back to their parents' country by force."
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