In the 70s, Yasmin Hai’s father launched ‘Operation English’ to turn his Muslim children into model British citizens. Her first-person story in The Guardian, UK:
When we three children were born a few years later, our father instilled in us a very clear idea of what our identity in Britain should be. He strongly discouraged us from taking an interest in our Muslim past and urged us to adopt English people’s ways – even when our white neighbours told us how we were a prime example of how the area was going down the drain. But, as far as my father was concerned, the quicker we became proficient in English ways, the more likely we would prosper here.
["The Making of Mr Hai's Daughter: Becoming British" by Yasmin Hai is published by Little Brown]
