Monday 30 July 2007

1/3 British Asians Don't Feel British

Or so a BBC poll suggests. Note that it's "Asians"; I wonder if they could be a little more specific...

The wording of the question worries me. Why have they phrased it in such overly racial terms? "Do Asian people need to act and think white, in order to fit in or get on?" Why do they have to think "white"? What does whiteness have to do with it? The question is surely whether they feel that they should integrate into WESTERN values? And does the fact that they reacted so negatively to a question about whiteness indicate their own racist bias?

And note also that the BBC doesn't think this is a problem of any kind - except in the sense that all of this might be down to the fact that we as Brits are too "racist".

Also, isn't "coconut" kind of a racist term?

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