How multicultural is the town you live in?

[Ninastar]

So I live in Harrogate which is a very white town.

I've had very little black people at the schools I went to (I dont think there was one at my primary school D: ) and even fewer asian people.

Poll coming up

[Marc]

I saw a black guy the other day

[Me. I Am Salman]

It's mixed. In the college I got to though it's 70% black.

[Doogle]

When I lived in London it was 50/50 in my area (South West) but here in Dover it's about 4% white 1% black and 95% Slovakian

[Marsh.]

I'd say it's majority white but black people aren't rare at all.

There's a couple of families around the corner from me who always wear Sari's so I'm *guessing* they're Indian, but have no idea. :laugh:

[King Gizzard]

I'd say probably 80% white, use to be mostly white but last few years there's more of a mix, when I was at school it was about 99% white

That doesn't sound right saying it like that, feels weird Lol

[Redway]

91.0% White
86.3% White British
1.0% White Irish
3.7% Other White

2.0% Mixed
0.6% Black Caribbean & White
0.4% Black African & White
0.5% South Asian & White
0.5% Other Mixed

3.0% Asian or Asian British
1.5% Indian
0.7% Pakistani
0.3% Bangladeshi
0.5% Other Asian

1.9% Black or Black British
0.5% Black Caribbean
1.1% Black African
0.3% Other Black

2.1% Chinese or Other
1.1% Chinese
1.0% Other

[GypsyGoth]

I think maybe 70% white.

[Mrluvaluva]

I saw a black guy the other day

Was it Nathan?

[GypsyGoth]

91.0% White
86.3% White British
1.0% White Irish
3.7% Other White

2.0% Mixed
0.6% Black Caribbean & White
0.4% Black African & White
0.5% South Asian & White
0.5% Other Mixed

3.0% Asian or Asian British
1.5% Indian
0.7% Pakistani
0.3% Bangladeshi
0.5% Other Asian

1.9% Black or Black British
0.5% Black Caribbean
1.1% Black African
0.3% Other Black

2.1% Chinese or Other
1.1% Chinese
1.0% Other

Do you know their names as well? :laugh:

[Redway]

Do you live in St Helens, Marsh?

[Firewire]

Very white town. There are minimal ethnic minorities in my school. Pupils are 100% white. There's one black teacher.

[Marc]

Was it Nathan?
It was not.. :shocked:

[Redway]

Do you know their names as well? :laugh:

lol, I copied and pasted for my town's ethnic makeup. :p

[Saph]

mostly white but we have loads of asian restaurants

[Marsh.]

Do you live in St Helens, Marsh?

I'd like to say "around about" but technically yes. :hugesmile:

Kind of on the fringe between that and Wigan.

[Niall]

A fair few ethnic people live where I live. I wouldn't say as many as half and half but there are a lot.

It's really weird because at my sixth form there are two main parts to our common room and it's sort of naturally segregated itself. All the white people hang out in one room, and all the blacks and asians hang out in the other. It wasn't intentional, it just sort of happened. It's so odd. o_o

[Princess]

I say about 95% white in my town, Ireland in general is really white though.

[Marsh.]

I say about 95% white in my town, Ireland in general is really white though.

Must be the ginger hair.

[Ninastar]

There's on black kid at work, and the kids had never seen one before.

One of the kids even said 'what's that!?" to him

it's weird to think that they've never seen a black child before

[Redway]

I'd like to say "around about" but technically yes. :hugesmile:

Kind of on the fringe between that and Wigan.

Ah right. Yeah, St. Helens does have quite a few black people there, same with Wigan. Haven't seen too many minorities outside it though (Ormskirk, Skelmersdale).

[Marsh.]

Ah right. Yeah, St. Helens does have quite a few black people there, same with Wigan. Haven't seen too many minorities outside it though (Ormskirk, Skelmersdale).

Yeah, it's noticeable in primary schools in this area which have developed a larger ethnic variation of pupils.

[Marsh.]

One of the kids even said 'what's that!?" to him

Sorry but :laugh2:.

Kids can be funny.

[Redway]

Having said all that about where I live, though, there's almost some sort of ethnic segregation and the minority groups tend to be found in one area. But of course they attend schools all over the city so it's not too segregated or anything.

[InOne]

Lots of Pakistanis and Polish. Also loads from various other Eastern European countries.

[Ninastar]

Sorry but :laugh2:.

Kids can be funny.

It was hilarious, I won't lie.

but yeah she full on pointed in his face and leaned across the table to ask him

[Marsh.]

It was hilarious, I won't lie.

but yeah she full on pointed in his face and leaned across the table to ask him

Yeah, there's just no filter with the kiddies. It's a shame when they start getting chastised for it when it's not really their fault. The entire world is curious and strange to them. :hugesmile:

[Jessica.]

There are lots of people from Nigeria in my city for some reason and lots of Chinese people too, there are loads of Polish and Romanians and also many from other parts of Africa but this has only been the situation for the past few years, when I was in primary school almost everyone I saw around here was white-Irish. I think it's great to live somewhere so diverse. :D

[King Gizzard]

I remember being a kid and thinking tigger was a racist word, so i couldn't understand why it was used in winnie the pooh and didn't watch it

[MTVN]

My village back home is overwhelmingly white, only a couple of people of other races but I guess that's what you'd expect from a small, rural village in the west country. Where I am at Uni there's a bit more diversity but it's still mainly white, there are loads of Chinese students here though

[Ninastar]

Yeah, there's just no filter with the kiddies. It's a shame when they start getting chastised for it when it's not really their fault. The entire world is curious and strange to them. :hugesmile:

yeah I hate when they get told off for it too.

Like the 5 year old kid who got something on his record for calling a child a chocolate button? what the ever loving ****? the kid was 5!!!

[Kizzy]

I live 2 miles from Bradford, but where I live is 99% white...
I think we are twinned with Salem haha!

[Me. I Am Salman]

I'm the only ethnic minority in this thread (I think) :sad:

[Marsh.]

yeah I hate when they get told off for it too.

Like the 5 year old kid who got something on his record for calling a child a chocolate button? what the ever loving ****? the kid was 5!!!

Awww. No that's not fair.

[Marsh.]

I'm the only ethnic minority in this thread (I think) :sad:

Where are you from?

[Me. I Am Salman]

My parents are Bengali lmao but I was born here

[Redway]

I'm the only ethnic minority in this thread (I think) :sad:

Think again. ;)

[King Gizzard]

Think I am the only person from Kenya in the whole of Suffolk

[Ninastar]

My parents are Bengali lmao but I was born here

so you're black? :amazed:

[Redway]

so you're black? :amazed:

Black means Afro-Carribean lol not Asian.

[King Gizzard]

my brothers best man-to be is Bengali

[Kizzy]

Are you not from the yukon then nathan?
pfffft...

[Marsh.]

Nathan and Redway are black?

How did I not know this? :laugh:

(Besides the obvious)

[Marsh.]

Kizzy, who's pogue mahone? :joker:

[Redway]

I'm technically white but what I mean is my step-mum's bi-racial (as are my step-sisters) if that accounts for anything. :p

[Me. I Am Salman]

so you're black? :amazed:

Omg no, Asian :joker:

[InOne]

I'm technically white but what I mean is my step-mum's bi-racial (as are my step-sisters) if that accounts for anything. :p

Yeah, pretty much means you're practically Black.

[Marsh.]

I'm technically white but what I mean is my step-mum's bi-racial (as are my step-sisters) if that accounts for anything. :p

:suspect: But step family members don't affect your genetics do they? :laugh: Have I lost the plot?

[Kizzy]

Kizzy, who's pogue mahone? :joker:

um.... :joker:

[Redway]

:suspect: But step family members don't affect your genetics do they? :laugh: Have I lost the plot?

idk it's like I have mixed step-mum and all, who I count as family but you're right

[Redway]

Yeah, pretty much means you're practically Black.

It doesn't though. I'm white - just have a mixed race step-family (which doesn't really account for anything on this thread but worth mentioning I guess). It's as simple as that.

[Ninastar]

Omg no, Asian :joker:
Oh

kill me now

and yeah, guys, Nathan is black!

[King Gizzard]

There are lots of things you don't know about me, I moved from Nairobi at the age of 2

[Marsh.]

um.... :joker:

:hugesmile: I thought you had an alias, like Madam Whiplash.

idk it's like I have mixed step-mum and all, who I count as family but you're right

Ah. I see.

[Marsh.]

There are lots of things you don't know about me, I moved from Nairobi at the age of 2

:amazed: Do you still visit?

[InOne]

Kizzy, who's pogue mahone? :joker:

It means kiss my arse in Irish

[SharkAttack]

I live in a complex that is the craziest mixed bag of ethnicities I've ever witnessed, including NYC. It's like the Tower of Babel post-scattering. Definitely a minority here, but don't mind it one bit.

[Ninastar]

I wento to Croydon earlier in the year and it was like another world

[King Gizzard]

Going to Wembley is almost like going to another Country tbh

[Mystic Mock]

I live in Tamworth and there is very few Asian people that live here, and I've seen no black people where I live and I've lived here for the past 4 years.

[michael21]

So I live in Harrogate which is a very white town.

I've had very little black people at the schools I went to (I dont think there was one at my primary school D: ) and even fewer asian people.

Poll coming up

i don't really notice colour every just human to me

[Redway]

It's almost like the Arabic world in certain areas of Liverpool lol.

[InOne]

Are we allowed to quote East Is East without it being racist?

[Mystic Mock]

Are we allowed to quote East Is East without it being racist?

Of course as West Is West.:hugesmile:

[Marsh.]

Go on quote it.

Is it "Get in and wash your bastard curtains"

or "I'll wrap that fanny round your bastard head"

or "Get out and take Laurel and Hardy with you".

:laugh: Such a good film.

[Livia]

It's predominantly white where I live now, although there are a few black people in the local town. I come from Newham though, which was the first borough in the country where people from ethnic minorities outnumbered the white indigenous population. I miss the ethnic mix and have witnessed more overt racism from people here than I ever did in London.

[InOne]

Go on quote it.

Is it "Get in and wash your bastard curtains"

or "I'll wrap that fanny round your bastard head"

or "Get out and take Laurel and Hardy with you".

:laugh: Such a good film.

:joker: I need a rewatch of that very soon

[Mystic Mock]

That does happen alot though Livia if those people have never had experience with black people or any other ethnicity, thankfully I lived in Birmingham for 12 years so I knew that not all of them are evil.

[Redway]

That does happen alot though Livia if those people have never had experience with black people or any other ethnicity, thankfully I lived in Birmingham for 12 years so I knew that not all of them are evil.

Exactly. It annoys me when white people moan about ethnic minorities in that way when they have been at the end of abuse by the white man for decades.

[Kizzy]

It means kiss my arse in Irish

Look, marsh thinks it means miss whiplash so jog on joey... :idc:

[InOne]

Look, marsh thinks it means miss whiplash so jog on joey... :idc:

-y

[Mystic Mock]

Exactly. It annoys me when white people moan about ethnic minorities in that way when they have been at the end of abuse by the white man for decades.

Yeah as long as they are legal immigrants I don't see the problem with them, especially when alot of these people that claim "it's our England" and they have Irish family members that they are basically bashing and are saying that they shouldn't be in the country, and by there definition they aren't even English then like alot of these ethnic groups are, they just have Chinese origins etc.

[InOne]

We can't pretend they're all happy little things going about their daily life though. There's a massive problem with human trafficking from Lithuanian gangs. Also the organised criminal Romanian gangs. Also criminals from Eastern European countries flee here when they're on the run. Not your petty ones either, murderers, rapists, drug lords. That's why it's all got out of control a bit.

[Mystic Mock]

We can't pretend they're all happy little things going about their daily life though. There's a massive problem with human trafficking from Lithuanian gangs. Also the organised criminal Romanian gangs. Also criminals from Eastern European countries flee here when they're on the run. Not your petty ones either, murderers, rapists, drug lords. That's why it's all got out of control a bit.

That's because this country was stupid enough to take other country's criminals, the everyday Lithuanian or whatever country you want to name are not like that.

[Brother Leon]

Only black people I see are in music videos.

[InOne]

That's because this country was stupid enough to take other country's criminals, the everyday Lithuanian or whatever country you want to name are not like that.

That really doesn't relate much to what I actually wrote...

[King Gizzard]

Got to love early morning threads

[GypsyGoth]

Only black people I see are in music videos.

:laugh2:

[michael21]

Got to love early morning threads

is early your word of the month :amazed:

[Mystic Mock]

That really doesn't relate much to what I actually wrote...

It was as you was saying about other countries peoples problems and I was just saying that this country does take alot of foreign criminals and are allowed to roam the streets.

Also what country doesn't have it's problems? the only thing I say is that we shouldn't have the floodgates open for all foreigners as we don't want criminals, and we're only a small island.

[Marsh.]

It means kiss my arse in Irish

:joker:

[InOne]

It was as you was saying about other countries peoples problems and I was just saying that this country does take alot of foreign criminals and are allowed to roam the streets.

Also what country doesn't have it's problems? the only thing I say is that we shouldn't have the floodgates open for all foreigners as we don't want criminals, and we're only a small island.

I didn't mention the Country and it's problems. I mentioned some of the people coming over and causing the problems. Not what is going on over there.

[Me. I Am Salman]

It's predominantly white where I live now, although there are a few black people in the local town. I come from Newham though, which was the first borough in the country where people from ethnic minorities outnumbered the white indigenous population. I miss the ethnic mix and have witnessed more overt racism from people here than I ever did in London.

I was tempted to go to NewVic college in Newham but it's an absolute ****hole (the college) so I didn't :joker:

[Livia]

I was tempted to go to NewVic college in Newham but it's an absolute ****hole (the college) so I didn't :joker:

I know NewVIc, in Prince Regent's lane... They spent so much money on it and, like you say, it's a ****hole. I worked at Newham College for a while after uni, in East Ham and Stratford.

[AnnieK]

Ah right. Yeah, St. Helens does have quite a few black people there, same with Wigan. Haven't seen too many minorities outside it though (Ormskirk, Skelmersdale).

I live in Astley, just outside Leigh and we have mainly eastern European ethnic minorities. I'm from Salford though and now there is a pretty diverse cultur there.

[Jesus.]

I grew up in an Oxfordshire village called Burford, which was distinctly white. I now live in a village on the Birmingham/Worcestershire border, called Barnt Green. Birmingham is a completely multicultural City, but Barnt Green is fairly white - apart from Jamelia.

Oh, it's also where Ron Atkinson lives, too. So that should tell you all you need to know about the diversity around these 'ere parts.

[Vicky.]

I voted half and half, though its not quite that. Whites are still in the majority, but we have a lot of different races here.

[LemonJam]

My birthplace is as white as the North Pole but where I live now is very mixed.

[Marcus.]

Half and half

[thesheriff443]

all you need to know is, we all bleed red!

[Marcus.]

all you need to know is, we all bleed red!

Well said

[Cherie]

all you need to know is, we all bleed red!

Post of the thread.

[Marcus.]

Post of the thread.

Yep

[Apple202]

Like 95% white

[Tom4784]

We once had an EDL rally once :amazed:

Barring that i'd say my area is fairly multi cultural, the small town I live in isn't that varied but the bigger towns are.

[Kazanne]

There are not many coloured here,but there are a few with corner shops and discount stores,mainly of Indian origin,not many Pakistanis also some Chinese.that's about it.

[BBfanUSA]

If You never go to the community college that I go to in my town. You'd think that the whole town was white.

[Roy Mars III]

I live in the suburbs of Detroit, so mostly white, but we have a nice mix going.

[Jesus.]

There are not many coloured here,but there are a few with corner shops and discount stores,mainly of Indian origin,not many Pakistanis also some Chinese.that's about it.

I don't think people use the term "coloured people" anymore. I know you didn't mean anything by it, but I thought you should know.

[Jamie.]

This is how "multicultuaral" we are...

My school has now started to do seperate lessons/worksheets etc in Portuguese and Polish.

[InOne]

I don't think people use the term "coloured people" anymore. I know you didn't mean anything by it, but I thought you should know.

I wonder if that's how all people right out in the sticks refer to them as. Not heard that term in years either and sounds really American.

[Livia]

I wonder if that's how all people right out in the sticks refer to them as. Not heard that term in years either and sounds really American.

I hear that term quite a bit where I live. Mostly from people who've never met a black person.

No criticism of Kazanne, like JHC I'm sure she meant nothing by it.

[Shaun]

The student population here is quite heavily Chinese - but the general public, I'd say, is about 80% white.

[MTVN]

We once had an EDL rally once :amazed:

Barring that i'd say my area is fairly multi cultural, the small town I live in isn't that varied but the bigger towns are.

lol we've had some EDL graffiti spring up on the walls around here last couple of weeks, was nice to see on one of them somebody had written "are *****s" underneath it

[Novo]

Have the displeasure of living right near a Mosque so i see more Asian people then anything else these days

[Me. I Am Salman]

Poor you.

[Cherie]

Have the displeasure of living right near a Mosque so i see more Asian people then anything else these days

Maybe they could move the Mosque?

[Harry!]

My city is Portsmouth and I would say it is quite culturally diverse. My college is especially diverse - particularly as we have many English as a second language classes (ESOL) and we endorse the many cultures of the world.

[Novo]

Maybe they could move the Mosque?

Very good idea, then they wouldn't block the road everyday

[Marsh.]

:rolleyes: Mosques. What are they like?

[InOne]

:rolleyes: Mosques. What are they like?

They can be pretty annoying when you hear the call to prayer at all hours. I used to live near one too and it drives you up the wall.

[Redway]

It's so annoying when you hear the trumpet being blown (or whatever it is) every few minutes lol.

[Apple202]

Have the displeasure of living right near a Mosque so i see more Asian people then anything else these days

:o

[Redway]

:o

What?

[Mystic Mock]

I hear that term quite a bit where I live. Mostly from people who've never met a black person.

No criticism of Kazanne, like JHC I'm sure she meant nothing by it.

I've always used that term, I didn't realise it was offensive though as I just thought it was better than saying black, asian, or ethnic all the time.

As the saying goes "you learn something new everyday".:hugesmile: