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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
It's a good place to start, if you haven't (and you may already have) look into unconscious bias also..
So, we agree that white privilege fundamentally exists in the UK. Can we also agree that this has to change?
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Of course it exists, all across western society, I don’t think anyone has said otherwise have they?
The West is a predominately white culture, therefore society will reflect that along with other factors. Fear of the other, comfort with familiarity etc.
It has, and is changing, the problem is the change isn’t quick enough, it is generational, and in a country ( I don’t know the % for the western world) that is 90% white the society is inevitably going to be oriented towards that population. It has to be done subtlety or you risk the opposite effect that you are after.
There are plenty of poor disadvantaged white people, that may be asking where their white privilege is? And that is addressed and recognised in the invisible knapsack, and you have take them along with you too, if we’re going to get where we need to be.
To move away from white only images on tv and in shops for years more and more BAME faces have been on TV to change peoples perceptions of the demographic of the nation. I’ll guarantee you there are people in this country that have still never scene a black person in the flesh. But if aliens landed and watched adverts on the tv they’d be convinced the U.K. nuclear family is mixed race. My point being instead having a black family or a family of Chinese decent or Pakistani Muslim decent, they think oh we’ll just throw them all in the mix.
So yes, it has to change, it is changing, it will take a long time, longer than people want, you have to take everyone with you.