What complete and utter drivel. The BBC are reporting that the government are thinking of renaming ethnic minorities. Excuse me? Do we just say "you're Indian-British now" and expect everyone to start referring to themselves as such?
Phrases like that will start getting used in official documents and that will be as far as it goes.
Any French-British out there? German-British maybe?
Or, as is usual with this sort of thing, is it all based around branding "communities" who can easily be identified by the colour of their skin or their religion, i.e. lazy?
Or is it that these particular groups get identified as communities simply because they still have a sense of one? The average town does not have anything that you would call a white community. It may have a large proportion of white people, but you'd be hard pushed to apply the word community to it. You're lucky to know your next-door neighbour's name.
I never hear reference to the Catholic or Protestant communities outside of Northern Ireland or Glasgow either.
Do "communities" only arise when there is a need to bond together in the face of a common foe, fear or some other perceived threat?
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