[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by vesavius

No, he is British. Supporting a football club does not make you English.

Look at it like this... When you look up his parents they are described as 'African born Punjabi'. Not African. No one claims that his parents were African. This would make him British African, not British Asian.

Sunak is British Punjabi.

This isn't me being 'racist', to be clear, I have a great deal of respect and affection for the Sikh community but his story is not the British English story.



These are a good start.

I get what you're saying, and I think that most people would agree with your view tbf.

I just look at it through a really simple lense, if you were either born/grew up in the country, then you're that nationality imo.

Obviously I would respect anyone that would prefer to be seen as say British Punjabi, but I do deep down just see people as where they culturally grew up.

Edit... And thanks, I can't believe that we're not even trying to implement these ideas.

[vesavius]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I get what you're saying, and I think that most people would agree with your view tbf.

I just look at it through a really simple lense, if you were either born/grew up in the country, then you're that nationality imo.

Obviously I would respect anyone that would prefer to be seen as say British Punjabi, but I do deep down just see people as where they culturally grew up.

Edit... And thanks, I can't believe that we're not even trying to implement these ideas.

You can be legally English, which Sunak is ofc, but that is not the same as being ethnically English.

And that is really what people are talking about when they discuss cultural identity.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by vesavius

You can be legally English, which Sunak is ofc, but that is not the same as being ethnically English.

And that is really what people are talking about when they discuss cultural identity.

That's true tbf.