Is Britain A Racist Country?

I moved from Croydon - quite shitty but multicultural - to Halifax. It was an eye opening experience. My primary memory is how every ‘ordinary’ white guy I encountered - mechanic, football fan, tradies in general, assumed I was racist (I should declare my whiteness) and launched into the ‘Paki’ this and that chunter. Professional classes largely kept a lid on it, but I found it to be a divided town with clear racial segregation and associated tensions. I think this applies to a lot of places around there and oop north.

It was a relief to go to the bigger centres and encounter ‘normal’ asian people, but the I felt the racial tension was under the surface all the time.

So that was more than 10 years ago and there were plenty of riots in the area at the time, and since no doubt. The embedded antipathy was so palpable to me as an outsider, it comes as no surprise that the voting patterns in that area can largely be seen as plain old racism. On the positive side, the stout racist burghers of the area can rest assured that they are not being overrun by foreigners opening corner shops as otherwise the vote would have gone the other way.

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There are clearly racists elements, yes. You only have to read internet forums to see that. Sadly there are racists everywhere, but hopefully less and less as the younger generations come thjrough with a more liberal approach to the world.

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I think rascism seems to be more prevalent today, as it gets bundled in with xenophobia and ‘national pride’ by the media, and to a greater extent social media. It doesn’t help that there also seems to be some confusion as to what racism actually is, and as a term I feel it is getting bandied around far too liberally these days. I’d like to think there is less racism in this country, as I don’t tend to see much going on around me, but I think that may be overly optimistic. It would be nice to think that the human race can evolve past racism, xenophobia, territorialism etc, but I can’t see it happening in my lifetime. Now I’m depressed :lou_facepalm_2:

Edit: When I say less racism in this country, I mean compared to what I witnessed growing up in the 80’s and 90’s

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Of course not, we have racists but less than everywhere else, supposed far right parties are laughed and seen as clowns whilst our European cousins have established far right political parties.
In Asia there is still dowry, religious intolerance and a backward view to womens rights.
The middle East is 500 years behind on many things and the US well the US where do you start?
Australia has huge issues from old systems and now the new ones of immigration and they actively sink refugee boats.
New Zealand has a pretty good record of human rights but they have quite right leaning parties as well.

We aren’t the worst in fact for tolerance and acceptance we are one of the best.

Judge a Country not on the village idiot but the laws in place and whether the people respect them, most here do respect the laws.

We’re ok and better than most, in fact name me 3 more tolerant Nations on the planet?

Looks like we’re joint 16th with Burkina Faso :lou_smiley:

Some people undeniably are (Barry for one), but then a lot of the Brexiters aren’t (Pap for instance).

I’d like to think we can set the bar a bit higher than ‘tolerance’.

Oh Cherts you are a one, a right little whopper.

Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez

Oh Cherts you are a one, a right little whopper.

Come up with your own insult, jeez.

Ok then Cherts is a moose lover and we hope he doesn’t threaten us again with his Candian passport and moving, it shook the UK to its foundations and I hear Tusk, Juncker and Merkel are trying to sort something out for you, hold on be strong my child.

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God your bantz is good. I can see that’s why your missus is with you

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You have good eyes if you can see that far.

I reckon Cherts is Bazist, and Baz is Chertsist.

It’s a vicious circle.

He is a tit if that’s what you mean.

Well I think this might be a good place for this.

Could have cross posted it to the Trumped thread - note the support for Donald.

Disgusting.

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Cannot wait to see Akala next week.

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You can’t tell who that mutant is abusing, its a photo of a mutant with his fingers up at someone, who? Lets keep it real here.

There are racists in the UK of course, there are racists everywhere, there are also in my experience more racists elsewhere and use the guise of religion and culture to pursue it.
The UK is one of the most progressive nations on the planet, a long way to go but still better than 99% on the planet.
Liberals and nation haters hate this response but can’t deny it.

What d’ya call it, Anti-semitism! What d’ya call it, racist!

Fucking hell Wiley.