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Originally Posted by martyh
why do recipients of these forms need to know if we are white or black anyway? ,i always wondered
i cannot think of anything that is unique to blacks or white or white british/brown british and so on
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Because, in the past (shock, horror, hard to believe I know), people were discriminated against just because they came from another country or were differently tinted, skin-colour wise; if it was recorded on official forms (including employment), it would be easier to analyse statistics about these things.
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Originally Posted by martyh
Chris sometimes you can be a real plonker,
the examples in newcastle i gave are not unique to newcastle this sort of concentration of immigrants happens in all the major cities and is detremental to proper intergration and mixing of the different cultures .Instead what happens as in the west road area or little india as it is now known we get 90% asian population which inturn leads to a seperate culture arising in that area .
If these immigrants are comming to this country for a better life than they would otherwise get in their own country then they should accept that they cannot have everthing their own way ,We should not encourage asians or poles or whatever culture to group together or what was the point of them comming here ?
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As Chris pointed out before, how is this different from UK ex-pats in Cyprus, Spain, Portugal, et al, all living in the same areas?