He may have written it but I lived there and mixed with all the residents! So trust my experience from that era?
It sounds that ur are an intruder to a harmonious community that existed when I resided there.
Like I mentioned at that time, no one looked at immigrants as an opportunity to create a business venture or to manipulate them for political advantage!
Just because someone went to Uni doesn’t mean that they’ve common sense or aren’t gullible to what they’re taught