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Why is professional Britain so white and middle-class? Where are the kids I taught?

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Reply 20

Fusion

Why is the security at Heathrow so non-white and working-class? :colone:

Reply 21

username386773

Original post by crackedskull

Including jobs.

In terms of benefits poor white working class Brits are always ahead in line of poor non white working Brits. Healthcare is the same, treatment is given to white Brits ahead of non white Brits. On education poor non white Brits are being put in schools with poor performance and first choices of school is given priority to white middle and woking class Brits. Jobs, well don't even get me started on that one.

So much evidence, hooray for empiricism and statistical analysis!
Wait wha...

Reply 22

ruperts

No statistics, no evidence, offensive, innacurate, displaying a huge lack of social understanding (middle class AND public schooled? Are you sure?) and generally very poorly written with no identifiable sections and no specific aim.

The article is so bad that the mind could be forgiven for boggling over why it has even been published. The writer can certainly consider herself extremely lucky to have been given such a platform. Clearly at least one "black, brown or east Asian" person is being given opportunities in this country, apparently completely regardless of her ability (or lack thereof). Irony, don't you just love it.

Reply 23

Aj12

Original post by Lovely88

Interesting question. How mixed your uni regarding race?
State your uni name please!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/katharinebirbalsingh/100064630/why-is-professional-britain-so-white-and-middle-class-where-are-the-kids-i-taught/

Most of Britain is white you dolt

Reply 24

Organ

What! The professions are mixed - medicine, law, dentistry and so on have a way above average proportion of minorities.

Reply 25

Studentus-anonymous

Original post by Beleg Cuthalion

Because Britain is 92.1% white.

85.67% according to Wikipedia but a good answer and probably the right one.

Reply 26

perrytheplatypus

Go on, tell me. Which one is it?

Benefits?

Healthcare?

Or education?

Healthcare.

There was some research, and it was found that white people are much more likely to be given life saving treatment for diabetes (or another illness, I can't quite remember) than asians and blacks :sadnod:

Not that this has anything to do with job prospects, but you did ask...

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Who cares

Original post by Panda Vinnie

UCL, Imperial and LSE are filled with south asian, oriental and arab students :yep:

Add Cambridge to that list. I felt like I should know how to speak Mandarin when I first arrived. :p:

Reply 29

NoobWithMoobs

People's success shouldn't be determined by their race. If more professionals are white, then that's either a coincidence or its due to most of the population being white. There's nothing wrong with it, its unfair to say "there are too many white professional people", if I said that about another race then I'd get lynched!
We need to move beyond political correctness and just allow everyone to have equal opportunities without labelling them like we do in this current age. Success should go to the most skilled, race is irrelevant. All races deserve the same opportunity to be a success, but discriminating against white people is not equality.

As for the class issue, well, being middle class is pretty much a result of being a professional. Its pretty much a definition of it.

Reply 30

BellaBoo

I go Birmingham. I'm really not sure about the proportion of minorities-there seem to be quite a few (i'd estimate off the top of my head maybe 30-35%???) but a lot of those would be International Students so i don't think would really count in the context of the article?
I might be totally off with my estimation btw but all i can say is that there's a sizable amount but definitely less than half of the total amount of Students and definitely less diverse than the city of Birmingham as a whole...

Wouldn't say i agree with the general jist of the article btw.