Editing London Borough of Ealing (section)

===Ethnic communities===
[[File:Ealing Town Hall, New Broadway - geograph.org.uk - 18244.jpg|thumb|[[Ealing Town Hall]], completed in 1888]]
The borough has a long-standing [[Irish British|Irish]] community which is particularly visible through the number of established Irish pubs in the borough and the popularity of Gaelic games in the community. Country flags for example can be seen flown on the outside or hung inside of various pubs in the area, especially on St Patrick's Day. St Benedict's School has also had a long term affiliation with the Irish community in Ealing, as it is a Catholic school. Many Irish members of the Ealing borough attend [[Ealing Abbey]] which is linked to [[St Benedict's School, Ealing|St Benedict's School]].

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Ealing has a large [[Polish British|British-Polish community]] that owes its origins to the World War II refugees and [[Polish Armed Forces in the West|Polish armed forces
]] finding both cheap accommodation and work in the Acton area, which then had a high proportion of London's light engineering companies involved with government war contracts. This community has grown considerably including more shops with authentic Polish food since Poland joined the European Union and its [[migrant workers]] have been able to come to the UK freely; in 2011 the borough had the UK's highest proportion of Polish speakers at 6% of the population.<ref>[http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/374464/England-s-second-language-is-Polish England's second language is Polish] | UK | Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express</ref> This has also led to an increase in Polish social centres in the borough. The population is highly concentrated in [[Acton, London|Acton]], [[Greenford]] and [[Perivale]].

[[Southall]] in the west of the borough is home to one of the largest [[South Asian]] communities in the UK, the majority of whom are [[Sikh]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4514245.stm|title=British Asians' immigration fears |last=Harcourt |first=Gordon|date=4 May 2005|work=BBC News|access-date=21 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/16530/|title=Voice from Little India|last=Philipose|first=Pamela|date=13 July 2003|work=[[The Indian Express]]|access-date=13 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2115361.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000|title=Cameron is given a black eye by the real Southall|last=Dhaliwal|first=Nirpal|date=22 July 2007|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=13 December 2009 | location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The community first developed in the 1950s. The Asian population makes up 80% of Southall Broadway ward as of 2011, a contrast compared to the 8% of Southfield ward in the borough's east.

The most noticeable Afro-Caribbean populations in the borough are in the areas of Northolt and Acton. Of the residents in the Northolt West End ward (as of 2011), 19.4% of them were of Afro-Caribbean heritage, with a relatively large proportion of these being [[Somalis|Somali]]. 16.1% of the South Acton ward was black, whilst 15.9% of the East Acton ward was black. The Caribbean population of Ealing Borough is also mostly concentrated in these two wards of Acton.

In a speech to mark the 70th anniversary of the Indian Journalists' Association and of Indian independence on 15 August 1947 North Ealing MP Stephen Pound said: "There is North Ealing, South Ealing and [[Darjeeling]]" referring to the relatively large Asian population.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Were-beneficiaries-of-reverse-colonialism-Boris/articleshow/60092530.cms|title= We're the beneficiaries of reverse colonialism |newspaper=Times of India }}</ref>

There are also churches and centres for London's [[Hungarians in the United Kingdom|Hungarian]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Magyarok Nagyasszonya Főlélkeszség |url=http://www.magyarkatolikusok.co.uk/news.php |language=hu |publisher=magyarkatolikusok.co.uk |access-date=16 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128050445/http://www.magyarkatolikusok.co.uk/news.php |archive-date=28 January 2013 }}</ref> and [[Assyrians in the United Kingdom|Assyrian]] communities in South Ealing.