[hannah60000]

(Original post by Indo-Chinese Food)
i did see a guy with a turban in the dizee rascal party video, i assumed he was asian. I think the OP is trying to push the point that there were a lot of 'ethnics' in the ceremony, probably black/mixed race. OP would need to exepct this as this is an london held event, not a village in shropshire.
I do think though the extended scene of the family house with the white wife, black husband and mixed race kids was all a bit cheesy and the formulaic stuff you get on tv ads. if you were representing london, you might as well have showed an asian family, or jewish, polish etc.

I thought I was the only one who thought this lool
The modern British family 1in10 is mixed race after all

[Indo-Chinese Food]

(Original post by hannah60000)
I thought I was the only one who though this lool
The modern British family 1in10 is mixed race after all

i was curious why they didnt go for white husband and black wife - you never see that on tv ads for some reason.

[Kerch]

It represented the demographics of that area of London, clearly not the whole of Britain.

[Mister Dead]

(Original post by Kerch)
clearly not the whole of Britain.

the whole of britain is exactly what it represented. britain as a whole is a multi-cultural country.

[hannah60000]

(Original post by Indo-Chinese Food)
i was curious why they didnt go for white husband and black wife - you never see that on tv ads for some reason.

So true I have a theory, but I may get called a gullible naive conspriacy theorist

However to be honest black male and white female relationships are more common than the opposite

[Mister Dead]

(Original post by hannah60000)
So true I have a theory, but I may get called a gullible naive conspriacy theorist

However to be honest black male and white female relationships are more common than the opposite

interesting that isn't it. it would be interesting to hear some specualtion from black women about why that is.

[WhatTheFunk]

Why is this even a issue?

[LordFishlock]

Obviously wasn't anything racist going on. If anything IMO, there were less whites than I expected. Silly that it all boils down to this.

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my MB860

[Mister Dead]

(Original post by WhatTheFunk)
Why is this even a issue?

some people have sand in their vagina.

[WhatTheFunk]

(Original post by Mister Dead)
some people have sand in their vagina.

maybe. It is the Olympic games its a bit silly to complain about multi-culturalism during them

[JJames]

It's down to who volunteered and who was good enough. There isn't a racial agenda, so don't look for one...

[Negaduck]

People are so obsessed with race. QQ

It gets tiresome, can't we just accept that the UK is a multicultural country with a diverse population of people with equal rights? There we go. So now it doesn't matter what percentage of the VOLUNTEERS were of each race. It doesn't have to be proportionate to that of the entire country. Anyways, a lot of the ceremony was actually portraying times when the UK wasn't so diverse.

[Lady Maleficent]

(Original post by A.J10)
Ruined the realism of a 3 hour interpretive dance/music show where chimneys rise out of the ground, a hundred Mary Poppins descend and a giant voldemort appears.

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my E15i

To be fair though, they were being 'realist' in terms of those coming off the Empire Windrush ship.

I'm not bothered with racial realism in terms of the historical representations, but they obviously wanted the Empire Windrush segment to be historically accurate in terms of racial representation.

[callum9999]

(Original post by LordFishlock)
Obviously wasn't anything racist going on. If anything IMO, there were less whites than I expected. Silly that it all boils down to this.

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my MB860

That's what people are generally moaning about. A ridiculous amount of people have it in their head that this predominately-white government and predominately-white judiciary are hell bent on annihilating the white population of Britain and replace them with immigrants (why exactly I have no idea!).

It wouldn't surprise me if by tomorrow (this...) morning there are people insisting that black people were cast in the role of villagers when in reality there wasn't many black people around is part of a propaganda campaign of trying to wipe out white history!

While the simplest explanation of "the organisers didn't segregate applicants and more Asian/Black people applied/were suitable for the roles" makes most sense, it's also rather boring and doesn't allow a hissy fit to take place!

They will also most likely forget for the next couple of days that they've spent the last decade insisting immigrants must do more to take pride in Britain/integrate etc. and ignore the countless hours the individuals have put in - for no pay whatsoever - to make this enormous British showcase.

[whyumadtho]

(Original post by AntiMonarchist)
More black culture then

They were all actors performing in a coordinated sequence; everybody was doing the same thing, regardless of the their ethnicities.

[lonelyknight]

The simple answer: No. Not even close.

[Mister Dead]

(Original post by lonelyknight)
The simple answer: No. Not even close.

which ethnic groups were missing?

[MagicNMedicine]

lol I love how the OP that is posting about race in all these threads puts "democracy" in his name, I presume this is being ironic like the Democratic Republic of Korea or Democratic Republic of Congo

[lonelyknight]

(Original post by Mister Dead)
which ethnic groups were missing?

Well I wasn't particularly 'looking out for' any ethnic groups, but even an idiot couldn't fail to notice the more or less 50:50 ratio between white and black people.

[Mister Dead]

(Original post by lonelyknight)
Well I wasn't particularly 'looking out for' any ethnic groups, but even an idiot couldn't fail to notice the more or less 50:50 ratio between white and black people.

Right, but if they're british, exactly how is skin colour relevent?

I don't hear you complaining that they were a majority of 18-35 and that the elderly were under-represented, or that fat-people were under-represented, or that bald-people were under-represented. They asked people to apply, and they applied. You got what you got.

You have an unhealthy pre-occupation with colour and considering that we conveniently left SLAVERY out of the opening ceremony, I should think you ought to just shut your ****ing mouth and be grateful that your not being lynched by hoards of 'black people', but instead having OUR country celebrated as one.