English isn’t an ethnicity? Is Ashkenazi?
Comment on Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Good.
A bunch of UKippers or whatever they were back then had been pissing their pants about having to tick “British” and insisted that “English” should be added to the census.
So the sour-faced swivel-eyed gammonic ultra cunts eventually got their way and “English” was added to the census options.
But since then, the same or similar had been crying about how “brown people aren’t allowed to be English, because English is a race now, and its exclusively a white one”.
So this act, though small, might help urge enough of the screaming red-faced traitor cunts to an early heart attack, thus leading to the saving of Britain, perhaps Europe and possibly the world.
mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 days ago
No. The ethnicity is “white”. No idea about the other one.
In the census, the race was simply “white British, white Irish, white other” and “black British, black carribean, black african” for example.
idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even the concept of a “white” ethnic group is a recent one. It wasn’t that long ago, all southern and eastern Europeans would not be considered “white”. Or more specifically, would not be considered the in-group of western civilisation. Which is the definition that “white” serves in the modern day.
It simply doesn’t exist.
mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Yes. You’re very wrong.
Within the “White” ethnic group, 74.4% (44.4 million) of usual residents in England and Wales identified their ethnic group as “English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British”. This was a decrease from 80.5% (45.1 million) in 2011, and a continued decrease from 2001, when 87.5% (45.5 million) identified as “White: British”.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 days ago
…and this shows the census before (2001) and the census after (2011), after a bunch of bnp proto-ukippy knobs had cried enough to try and get “English” added to sub-options for “ethnic group”.
Also, “Ethnic group” is still not the same as “Race”.
I’m sure I’ve only ever seen this argument once before, and I’m now suspecting it was probably from you.
YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
“Races” as distinct biological categories do not actually exist in humans; genetics shows more variation within so-called racial groups than between them, meaning humanity is one interconnected, genetically diverse species, Homo sapiens. While there are physical differences such as skin colour, these are superficial, resulting from adaptation to local environments, not deep genetic divisions, and race is understood by scientists as a social construct with real-world social impacts, not a biological reality. I attach a fine soecimin of the English race.
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fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
I’m beginning to suspect that might the a photo of the OP :P