London's Migration Museum aims to 'shine a light' on UK history
From the co-founder of Marks & Spencer, to designer Jimmy Choo, or local neighbourhood restaurateurs, an exhibition at London's Migration Museum highlights migrants crucial role in shaping Britain.
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00:22 Everybody knows these brands, these companies, and we use them every day.
00:27 We shop in them or we drink their coffee or we wear their clothes.
00:32 But yeah, often we don't know the stories behind it.
00:35 We don't stop to think about people that created these businesses.
00:39 I think through understanding the stories of the people who founded these businesses,
00:43 actually it sort of shines a light on our history.
00:48 [Music]
00:57 I hope for people that come to the Migration Museum exhibition
01:02 that they learn something about immigration,
01:04 they learn a bit about something about immigration,
01:07 and that they're humans at the end of the day through it all.
01:11 And I really hope that they learn a bit of compassion and empathy
01:16 for these very, very hard-working businesses.
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01:21 So I really wanted to highlight all the sacrifices and all the hardships
01:26 that Chinese immigrants have to go through in order to make their own business,
01:30 to make it work in a space where it's predominantly a very white space,
01:35 where there's a lot of xenophobia, there's a lot of racism and vandalism.
01:39 And through it all, they still manage to make it work,
01:43 they still manage to kind of carve a living out.
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