Shades of White
The other day, I was filling out an application at the local college to join their Gaelic class, which included stating your ethnicity.
I knew identity politics were different in Britain, but I didn't know there were so many shades of white here:
12 White Irish
13 White Scottish
14 Irish Traveller
17 White English
18 White Welsh
11 White British (inc Wales and Northern Ireland)
19 Other White
Funnily enough, they have no code for black Scottish or Asian Welsh. They do have codes for 'mixed' but not for people who may be Black and Chinese or Pakistani and Irish Traveller.
I guess this was my chance to be the 'other'.
I knew identity politics were different in Britain, but I didn't know there were so many shades of white here:
12 White Irish
13 White Scottish
14 Irish Traveller
17 White English
18 White Welsh
11 White British (inc Wales and Northern Ireland)
19 Other White
Funnily enough, they have no code for black Scottish or Asian Welsh. They do have codes for 'mixed' but not for people who may be Black and Chinese or Pakistani and Irish Traveller.
I guess this was my chance to be the 'other'.
posted by Ness @ 2:08 PM
1 Comments:
At 6:47 AM ,
cat said...
interesting! because mac (boyfriend) is black scottish, but then again so is so much of the macdonald clan that they would probably be pretty irate to know that their outer cousins, also tinged with spanish armada blood, didn't even consider them part of the race!
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