Does racism exist at top UK universities? For example, there doesn't appear to be much variety in the types of people you see in a tyical Durham college. Does this cause issues?
silent racism yes. but overall i think they are accepted. there are several africans, asians and middle easterns at oxford and cambridge after all and seem to co-exist with their peers well enough
Students at Durham have in the past painted their faces brown. Granted, these were isolated cases.
It's worse now. Twitter hashtag trends and Donald Trump have convinced the alt-reich neckbeards that their internet rants are having a real effect on the world so they're finally leaving their basements.
It's worse now. Twitter hashtag trends and Donald Trump have convinced the alt-reich neckbeards that their internet rants are having a real effect on the world so they're finally leaving their basements.
What has actually happened, and where? Just speculating based on Tweets and Donald Trump PR gaffes is hardly making a strong case here.
-Social media shouldn't be underestimated considering it's where a lot of the younger generation are getting ideas from and they are the future. All of the YouTube, online publications and all collected media with millions of hits for anti-feminism, anti-BLM, etc. I'm not saying there aren't antagonists on both sides but these social arguments are becoming mainstream for example at universities. You can even see how these topics are often mentioned on TSR.
-There are signs fascism is becoming more prevalent in Asia e.g. Duterte.
I think there are several examples of manifestations of a less tolerant and more regressive and isolationist politics.
-Social media shouldn't be underestimated considering it's where a lot of the younger generation are getting ideas from and they are the future. All of the YouTube, online publications and all collected media with millions of hits for anti-feminism, anti-BLM, etc. I'm not saying there aren't antagonists on both sides but these social arguments are becoming mainstream for example at universities. You can even see how these topics are often mentioned on TSR.
-There are signs fascism is becoming more prevalent in Asia e.g. Duterte.
I think there are several examples of manifestations of a less tolerant and more regressive and isolationist politics.
Yeah the unis themselves discriminate against white english people cos the internationals pay more and its good for the corporate elite (who are totally in cahoots with zionist academia) to have lots of coffee coloured people over here.
I can't comment on that from a general perspective but I'll share a personal experience.
When I arrived for my Oxford interview a few years ago the first thing I heard other applicants discussing was just how many 'foreigners' were present at the college that day.
It was a small college and I was the only coloured person there along with my dad, everyone else was ethnically white. We stood out.
Although it has racist undertones, I am still not sure if it can itself be considered racist. I'm pretty sure some of those students had never seen a coloured person before in their lives.
I can't comment on that from a general perspective but I'll share a personal experience.
When I arrived for my Oxford interview a few years ago the first thing I heard other applicants discussing was just how many 'foreigners' were present at the college that day.
It was a small college and I was the only coloured person there along with my dad, everyone else was ethnically white. We stood out.
Although it has racist undertones, I am still not sure if it can itself be considered racist. I'm pretty sure some of those students had never seen a coloured person before in their lives.
quite likely they had never properly connected with a non-white british person.
For me growing up in a small town in a well-off area of the UK, there were about 1-2 families who were not white in the whole town.. so for most people, whilst they had no problem with non-white people, its just not something they had ever came in contact with or became used to. It shouldnt make a diference, but it still catches people off guard.
Its the same with me now, I live in china in a town where I am the only white person. I cant go anywhere with out surprising people, getting wierd looks/comments etc, because for most of them I am the first non-chinese person they have seen or met in person.
I think its always worth considering that in the UK, the vast majority of the population is still white, and due to the clustering of immigration, there are still vast parts of the country where you wouldnt be mistaken in growing up thinking the UK was nearly 100% white. Its not just geographical though, but also exists in different industries, and certainly higher education is one where there has always been a leaning towards the wealthy, and in the UK, the wealthy have always been white.
Many people will call this racist, and it probably is - but I would argue its also un-avoidable. In any group of people there will always be a subtle (sometimes) un-intentional bias towards the majority. People feel comfortable around those they identify with, empathize stronger with those they have shared culture/backgrounds with, feel at ease with what they are used to etc. and whilst they personally may believe they have no issue with people who are different, its hard for any of us to truly treat everyone exactly the same. Its not easy to avoid our subtle leanings towards what we know/identify with.
For me this type of racism is one that can only be solved by time, and not policy.
Increasingly meddling policy only serves to further aggravate tensions between groups, and stir-up hatred within the existing majority. What we need is time. Over decades and centuries societal groups can change naturally, as they have done throughout our human history as people migrate and what we perceive as a collective group changes.
Currently the change is happening much quicker then it has happened before, and its going to take time before future generations come to accept this as the norm, a more globalized world where your group is not defined by concepts such as race/country of origin etc. Unfortunately for me we just have to put up with a difficult period now where we have a huge disconnect between the world works, and the ideas of the people.. one has changed quickly, and the other is still slowly evolving.
In answer to the OPs question, I don't think universities in the best universities in the UK show any more racism then the subtle bias I mentioned above. Not including international students, from my memory many of our top universities are over-represented by non-white students, compared to their percentage in the general population. This is a great thing, and shows how well some of these communities are thriving in the UK.. but even if they are thriving, in a country that's still 89% white, your still going to have a vast majority of students at top-universities who are white.. and considering the how much lower the percentage of minorities was back when the now-heads of the universities were born, its no surprise that there would be a huge majority of white leaders of education currently.
Probably silent racism. A lot of the top universities are quite 'cliquey': although they can have a quite diverse student population, they all seem to stick to their own racial groups. (see LSE, ICL, etc.)
Racism exists everywhere because there are racists everywhere. What you're describing is a lack of diversity which in some cases can mean larger issues with racism due to ignorance, it doesn't mean there will automatically be an issue though, and all universities have policies to at least try and combat these sorts of prejudices, I.e the university can expel you for being outwardly racist/sexist/homophobic....
Does racism exist at top UK universities? For example, there doesn't appear to be much variety in the types of people you see in a tyical Durham college. Does this cause issues?
You just asked me if I was Asian in a derogatory tone on another thread... Ironic that you'd ask about racism here...