Hi, thanks in advance for taking the time to read my question and for contributing if you do so. I appreciate that this would be a generalisation but it is a genuine concern.
I'm aware that Newcastle has the highest number of boarding school pupils and one of the highest number of private schools pupils joining each year and is also quite white. I find this a bit unsettling as I come from a very posh and white private school in a small and very white city and I am really hoping to move away from the casual racism which seems to be very prominent in the culture of my school and also other boarding schools and private schools which I've experienced through sporting fixtures, and I don't want to face the same racist jokes and casual racism at uni as well. It's all in good spirit and is meant to humour - deep down nobody is really racist, but the people tend to make racist jokes and use offensive humour a lot because of the lack of diversity and just the culture in general I guess. I do get on with them very well and it might not happen that much but it's still more than I'd like and I'd just prefer to move away from this culture rather than have another 4 years of it at uni as well. My brother is in his second year at Liverpool Uni and insists that it's an issue at these kinds of schools only and not at uni but Liverpool has one of the lowest private school uptakes and I think that might play a big role.
Thank you so much