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In the News Coloured....or people of colour... What's the difference...?

Cougar377

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Beats me, but I use...and will continue to use.. .the phrase "coloured" to describe people with brown skin. It's got feck all to do with my age. Get over it.

 

JayTee

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What’s wrong with being factually descriptive, it’s not derogatory! Only in the minds of the terminally offended does this matter.
Ffs! We’re all coloured aren’t we?
 

andyBeaker

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A very important observation in the article points to the fact that older people are Likely to be ‘clumsy’ (my word) to ‘race‘ issues.

My mum doesn’t have a nasty bone in her body but occasionally some of the stuff she comes out with makes me cringe. My mother in law is the same. I don’t think either are racist. They are from a different generation and were both raised in ‘100% white’ communities.

Happilly each passing generation in this country appears to be generally more inclusive, or perhaps more accurately ‘Dont care what colour someone is’. My extensive involvement with my son’s generation (he is 32) demonstrates much greater ‘inclusiveness’, maybe as a result of being brought up in a more cosmopolitan environment.

Of course there are exceptions, still too many, but I believe it is getting better.
 

Pow-Lo

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It might be helpful if prominent members of the British Afro Caribbean community let the world know how they would prefer to be referred to.
 

Lee337

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I used to work with someone who described himself as 'a gentleman of colour'.

I also worked with someone who referred to himself as 'black' and yet another who said she was 'Caribbean'

There are so many different ways in which people prefer to be referred to as, you're on a sticky wicket no matter how careful you are, especially if someone decides to take issue - and as has been said, these change over time as well.

I just use their name if I know it, if not, it can get a little more difficult if you are asked to describe someone.
 

derek kelly

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A very important observation in the article points to the fact that older people are Likely to be ‘clumsy’ (my word) to ‘race‘ issues.

My mum doesn’t have a nasty bone in her body but occasionally some of the stuff she comes out with makes me cringe. My mother in law is the same. I don’t think either are racist. They are from a different generation and were both raised in ‘100% white’ communities.

Happilly each passing generation in this country appears to be generally more inclusive, or perhaps more accurately ‘Dont care what colour someone is’. My extensive involvement with my son’s generation (he is 32) demonstrates much greater ‘inclusiveness’, maybe as a result of being brought up in a more cosmopolitan environment.

Of course there are exceptions, still too many, but I believe it is getting better.
You obviously don’t live in a densely Asian populated area.
 

Cougar377

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A very important observation in the article points to the fact that older people are Likely to be ‘clumsy’ (my word) to ‘race‘ issues.

My mum doesn’t have a nasty bone in her body but occasionally some of the stuff she comes out with makes me cringe. My mother in law is the same. I don’t think either are racist. They are from a different generation and were both raised in ‘100% white’ communities.

Happilly each passing generation in this country appears to be generally more inclusive, or perhaps more accurately ‘Dont care what colour someone is’. My extensive involvement with my son’s generation (he is 32) demonstrates much greater ‘inclusiveness’, maybe as a result of being brought up in a more cosmopolitan environment.

Of course there are exceptions, still too many, but I believe it is getting better.
Feckin' ageist.

I'd love to know what the Armed Forces are like these days, compared with what it was like when I served through the 80's and when anyone on here served in the 60's and 70's (and even further back).

Back then it was very inclusive because EVERYBODY was a target for verbal abuse and piss-taking. No exceptions.
 

derek kelly

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No but I have worked for forty years in a multicultural workplace and take people as I find them.
People have a work persona & a home persona, we had an Asian osg (operational support grade) he came across as very moral & strait laced, he was sacked as he was charged & found guilty of crash for cash scams amongst other things.
In all my working years I can count on one hand the amount of decent Asians (apart from Sikhs) I have come across, it isn’t just me Bev & my daughters have experienced the same, the general nature of Asians alienates them from Western culture.
 

andyBeaker

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People have a work persona & a home persona, we had an Asian osg (operational support grade) he came across as very moral & strait laced, he was sacked as he was charged & found guilty of crash for cash scams amongst other things.
In all my working years I can count on one hand the amount of decent Asians (apart from Sikhs) I have come across, it isn’t just me Bev & my daughters have experienced the same, the general nature of Asians alienates them from Western culture.
Not my experience at all.

Maybe because the Asians (and many other ethnicities) that I have worked and socialised with have also lived and worked in a multicultural environment.
 

derek kelly

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Not my experience at all.

Maybe because the Asians (and many other ethnicities) that I have worked and socialised with have also lived and worked in a multicultural environment.
Try walking round Bradford, Dewsbury, Huddersfield etc, you would not feel welcome, very few would speak to you in English, the women usually can’t speak English despite living here for many years.
 
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