Over a third of the British Asians polled agreed that in order to get on in the UK they needed to be a "coconut" - a sometimes derogatory term for somebody who is "brown on the outside but white on the inside".
Some 12% said they considered themselves to be coconuts.
The ICM Research interviewed 500 Asian people aged 16-34 and 235 white people aged 18-34 between 4 and 12 July.
Of those polled 84% were satisfied with life in Britain and almost half thought they have more opportunities here.
Among the British Asians interviewed were 296 Muslims, 112 Hindus, 39 Sikhs and 33 Christians.
Among the Sikhs, 77% said they felt completely British or a lot. For Muslims, the figure was 64%, followed by Hindus and Christians on 46%.
The poll was commissioned to coincide with the BBC's India and Pakistan '07 season of programmes to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1947 partition of India.
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