Post-racial world? I don’t think so. This blog reminds us that we have a long way to go. Meanwhile UKIP and groups like Britain First are normalizing a hatred of difference.
by Huma Munshi
It’s been a strange tale of race relations of late. On the one hand, research indicates that one in ten relationships are between people from different ethnic backgrounds. Yet on the other hand, the effects of institutional racism are as potent ever.
It can come as no surprise that we are seeing more people in relationships from a different ethnic background. In cities with a high population density, mixing within diverse communities is very much the norm. In London, the 2011 Census showed that the BAME population outnumbered White British for the first time. Within that, however, there are pockets where there is significant segregation of communities. The groups that are least likely to be in mixed relationships are Bengali and Pakistani. So even within the context of mixed race relationships there are anomalies.
But this is just one small piece of a complex jigsaw.
PC…
View original post 571 more words
