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Why are non-black minorities undervalued in university scholarships?

Let's take KCL as an example. In a landmark step to support minorities and underprivileged (their own words), they announced scholarships for women and full tuition fee waiver scholarships for black people.

Reference: https://bit.ly/3ujGlji

We all know those are the only two underprivileged minority groups in the UK, right?

Not just in KCL, this is prevalent in almost all unis - biggest minority scholarships are always for black people.

And the funny thing is, there are minority groups that suffered far worse than black people in the UK. Remember that the N-word was never popular here, but the P-word very much was and it is still used to this day in some places.

The amount of abuse South Asian people faced in the UK after the second world war is documented (look up Altab Ali), and which only improved at the turn of the last century.

Yet the UK looks up to America and decides that the same minority group the US supports the most, they should be supporting the most as well, as if it shares the same history as the US does with the group.

This kinda shows that the unis don't truly care about supporting the minority groups that struggled in this country. Since black people are the unwritten 'main' minority group in the West that needs the most saving, courtesy to America for creating this impression, the biggest virtue signal will also be big scholarships targeting towards them. Why waste scholarships on groups that won't garner you pats on the back?

As much diverse and open-minded UK claims itself to be, brown people are still lowly seen in this country as they were before, just on a different, more subtle level now.

Reply 1

furryface12

I suspect it's that specifically in academia, Black people are the least represented. While others arguably fair worse (or at least as badly) in other areas, they're looking at which students are least likely to go to uni for scholarships etc. Which depending on course South Asians statistically do well with.

Reply 2

looloo2134

Original post by furryface12

Does that include females of West Africa Christian/non-religious decent because their overrepresented in top university courses except Vet Med

Reply 3

Dnsnnssn

Because we are penalised for working hard and getting the high grades, in effect. Sad but true.

Hopefully in America at least the Supreme Court will rule against Harvard in the Affirmative Action case, the anti Asian discrimination is sickening.