Is Britain "Too White" As A Country??

There's a lot of talk recently about how diversity is necessary, but how far do we go? And how do we judge what is a good and strong/positive multiracial country?

When you look at other western countries like Canada, America, Australia, the vast majority of its immigrants are not white these days and are probably heading for a more diverse future, so much so to the point that these nations will have very different demographic look to them in 50 years time. They will have great bragging rights you could say when it comes to multiracialism and diversity than Britain or most european countries will maybe not have. You often here quotes like "Hollywood is too white" "the tories are too white" but what defines what is "too white"? So I'm wondering if people could put Britain in the same context?

Like I say people brand multiracialism as a good thing, very few want to go back to a 100% white society but how multiracial do we need to go to satisfy the vast majority of people, particularly liberals? I personally think it's completely necessary but I know many of my opponents will disagree. Are we still not multiracial enough compared to some of our western rivals?? What do you think??

Would guess he has quite a pale complexion.

No it sounds racist to white people in my opinion. Imagine if someone said that Ghana is too black (example).

PS - I'd love for you to say where you came up with these bogus statistics from, because aside from Oceana, the next highest country/area of immigrants into Australia are from the UK

To be honest, this is a bizarre thread, and at the end of the day, doesn't matter, people are people and it doesn't matter if they are black, white, blue or purple.

This is COMPLETELY different to asking whether an entire nations population should be a certain skin colour - skin colour should be irrelevant. It's absolutely sickening you would want to diminish a race's presence just for the sake of it.

Ok so could you both please answer me why we can't get rid of race off the census, if it is so unimportant??

I ask this question a couple of months back (with a poll), and this is what I got, about 85% of the forum disagreeing with me so I find it slightly hypocritical when people say 'race doesn't matter' but we have on a census form and people still want that to be the case.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1877978

If we want to remove race we need actually eliminate it from all government questionnaires. It should be illegal to ask about race. This is what they do in France and many european countries.

I definitely agree with the principle of removing race from the census but this is why it isn't removed yet:

There is still a degree of racism existent in society. Race determines how well you do at school and how much you will earn in your lifetime.

When race truly stops mattering, then there will be no variation in race representation in any point of society.

14% of the population is non white:
If race did not matter then
14% of the prison population would be non white
14% of MPs would be non white
14% of doctors would be non white
14% of army recruits would be non white
14% of hospital patients would be non white


However they aren't. But we are monitoring it and directing resources to balance out the numbers.

The reason we monitor race in the census is so we can compare the prevalence of races compared to their ratio in the population and work towards true racial equality.

Ok so could you both please answer me why we can't get rid of race off the census, if it is so unimportant??

I ask this question a couple of months back (with a poll), and this is what I got, about 85% of the forum disagreeing with me so I find it slightly hypocritical when people say 'race doesn't matter' but we have on a census form and people still want that to be the case.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1877978

If we want to remove race we need actually eliminate it from all government questionnaires. It should be illegal to ask about race. This is what they do in France and many european countries.

I definitely agree with the principle of removing race from the census but this is why it isn't removed yet:

There is still a degree of racism existent in society. Race determines how well you do at school and how much you will earn in your lifetime.

When race truly stops mattering, then there will be no variation in race representation in any point of society.

14% of the population is non white:
If race did not matter then
14% of the prison population would be non white
14% of MPs would be non white
14% of doctors would be non white
14% of army recruits would be non white
14% of hospital patients would be non white


However they aren't. But we are monitoring it and directing resources to balance out the numbers.

The reason we monitor race in the census is so we can compare the prevalence of races compared to their ratio in the population and work towards true racial equality.

I agree with this too but countries like France work well with it. I think the principal of mentioning race is central key issue we need to get rid of.

You know rightly the world is becoming mixed raced. Your country you are residing in Japan gets an awful lot of criticism from the world for not having a more diverse immigration policy and being isolationist.

Britain may have a "beige" majority at some point, as will many other western countries. But Japan will not have and this ticks some people off. I'm not so bothered but just saying.