Hi, are you British?

jumpy · 02-03-11, 07:13 PM

On all of these damn 'equality and positive discrimination' forms you get with council paperwork and some job agencies there's about 10 million different ethnic categories to cover every possible variant of race and culture to promote 'inclusiveness', unless you're English... the choice for you is always 'White - British'.
I routinely put my mark next to the box 'Other', then in the space provided write 'English'. I was born in England, not Scotland, Wales, or that other place with all of the trouble

I don't get really bent out of shape by it, but everyone else gets a special label, so why shouldn't I positively discriminate my englishness on the stupid PC forms?
We're a mongrel lot here in the UK anyways, depends on how far back into history you want to take it, but I always go for where you were born as a safe bet on nationality - simplifies things somewhat.

Gotta keep those age old traditions alive, you know... Besides, how would the english know that they were better people than the miserly scots or the sheep-shagging welsh, if we were not constantly reminding ourselves and our western and northern cousins of the fact?

02-03-11, 07:13 PM	#14
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	On all of these damn 'equality and positive discrimination' forms you get with council paperwork and some job agencies there's about 10 million different ethnic categories to cover every possible variant of race and culture to promote 'inclusiveness', unless you're English... the choice for you is always 'White - British'. I routinely put my mark next to the box 'Other', then in the space provided write 'English'. I was born in England, not Scotland, Wales, or that other place with all of the trouble I don't get really bent out of shape by it, but everyone else gets a special label, so why shouldn't I positively discriminate my englishness on the stupid PC forms? We're a mongrel lot here in the UK anyways, depends on how far back into history you want to take it, but I always go for where you were born as a safe bet on nationality - simplifies things somewhat. Gotta keep those age old traditions alive, you know... Besides, how would the english know that they were better people than the miserly scots or the sheep-shagging welsh, if we were not constantly reminding ourselves and our western and northern cousins of the fact? __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life