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Originally Posted by Spike
So gay and bi people are extremes and aren't regular people?
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Well they may be regular people but they have some irregularity when it comes to the 'gay or bi' part of this description.
I never expect BB to make some exact statistical representation of the UK public but I'd like to see some kind of aim to the original BB concept of a 'microcosm' in the house.
If you had 20 people then maybe 1 person is either gay, lesbian, bisexual or somewhere in that loop.
This is even less likely to be an openly gay or 'flaming' person and may be someone who (for example) had occasionally had something they define as a 'homosexual experience' at some times in their life.
Again, I'm not sitting here demanding some sociological scientists draw up some charts for this,
but,
I'm with LT that it would be nice to see SOME kind of proportional representation of society at large.
Something like 1/3 the HMs would describe themselves as 'practicing Christians' of some sort and occasionally attending Church.
About half the HMs would describe themselves as 'conservative' although this could be a spectrum with about 2 HMs 'BNP' supporting types.
None would be the 'openly gay' type although a few would be virgins or people who you would describe as 'long term abstinent' people.
17 of the HMs are 'native brits' or to say 'white people' if you want to call them that.
1 might be black and 1 might be an immigrant from asia and another from poland.
1 might be a Muslim. None would be jewish. 3 would describe themselves as 'Atheists' although 5 more might describe themselves as 'agnostic' (not atheist in the dawkins sense but sincerely unwitting or apathetic to anything of it).
Again - just throwing out a picture of what a sort of 'somewhat representative' house might look and feel like.
Almost all would be working people who are reasonable well educated and very capable of running their lives somewhat responsibly. They never have fist fights. They do not go to nightclubs. Have not been arrested. Never been accused of bullying.
Most would be very interesting people beneath their reasonably polite and well-mannered exteriors and almost all would have some issues they need to resolve but do not require psychiatrists either.