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The UK is one of the most ethnically diverse and tolerant nations on Earth. This is a fact you'll find difficult to argue against.
by dazc 10y ago
The UK is one of the most ethnically diverse and tolerant nations on Earth. This is a fact you'll find difficult to argue against.
- vmateixeira 10y agoLondon you mean...
- dazc 10y agoNo, all the UK actually
- DanBC 10y agoLook at Gloucestershire. Overall it's not particularly diverse. One of the larger towns (Cheltenham, pop about 110,000) is 96% White British in last census. Nearby Gloucester is much more diverse - one street has over 70 different languages spoken as a first language, and the school in the UK (but outside London) with most different languages spoken as a first language is in Gloucester. So, while I believe the UK is diverse it's a bit more complicated than that.
- dazc 10y agoIf you ask ten random people in the UK to tell you where Gloucestershire is I would be surprised if more than three of them would be able to?
- DanBC 10y agoThey'd know it's roughly south west, near wales. But that makes your point stronger, no? That even in this small (by population, not geographical) rural county there's still a mix of not much diversity and lots of diversity.
- dazc 10y agoI guess it does, yes.
- pjc50 10y agoThis is part of the problem! The UK has an inequality of attention: everyone looks inwards towards London. It's the places that are ignored that voted to Leave. And there are a lot of them. I'm reminded of the proposal of "managed decline" for Liverpool in the 80s. Give up rather than fixing the problems. Ironically Liverpool has since prospered enough to vote Remain, although that vote may also be due to the longstanding boycott of the Sun newspaper there.
- mickronome 10y agoCursory looked up some ethnographic statistics the other day, and if wikipedia is to be trusted, UK as a whole certainly does not appear to be very ethnically diverse - although London is.
- dazc 10y agoGood for you. Can wikipedia tell you what other countries fair better?
- MagnumOpus 10y agoA simple google search might have informed you. Indeed there is a Wikipedia page on multiple ways of measuring it. At least 100 countries are more diverse, ethnically, linguistically, racially, you name it. Germany is among them, so is the US. France is about the same level of diversity. A majority of EU countries are more of a melting pot than the UK, in fact. The UK is 87% white, 95% English speaking, 92% Christian/atheist/agnostic. It doesn't get much less diverse than that. And of course the places that aren't homogenous (inner London for instance), all voted "remain" by a huge margin.
- dazc 10y agoThanks for the information. As you can probably guess I wasn't that motivated to find it for myself since I was fairly confident in my original assertion.
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- ManlyBread 10y agoHard to believe when stuff like Sharia Zones are a thing.
- DanBC 10y agoThey aren't a thing. Some sharia "courts" operate in the UK, as do Beth Din and Ecclesiastical Courts. They're mostly for mediation and actual courts feel free to ignore them. They've all been involved in pretty severe human rights abuses. Christian courts moved abusing priests around the country rather than reporting them to the police; Christian courts did little to prevent the sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children by nuns. Beth Din are currently involved in not giving Jewish women "Gets" - a religious divorce that can only be provided by the husband. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scandal-of-women-trapped-in-marriages-by-jewish-courts-1765888.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scandal-of-wo... Sharia Zones, as talked about by US media, don't exist.