Ethnic minority Brits 'believe they cannot access top professions'

Racism is still a major barrier stopping British ethnic minorities from entering the best-paid professions in the country, a new report has claimed.

The report, compiled by the charity Business in the Community, which works with firms to develop and build a sustainable future for people and the planet, and funded by the government, revealed that a large number of Britons from ethnic minority backgrounds feel they cannot enter fields such as law and banking.

They also do not believe they can pursue a profession in media or politics.

Around 1,500 people from ethnic minority backgrounds were surveyed for the report, which discovered 72 percent of Afro-Caribbeans think the police is prejudiced by race.

Some 36 percent believe the armed forces are racist, 30 percent think politics is prejudiced and 16 percent perceive the law as being this way too.

"Overall it is clear that some of the best-paid professions in the UK are still seen as subtly hostile or openly racist towards ethnic minorities," said the report.

"The challenge...is to ensure that for [ethnic minority] candidates, the door to the city law firm is as open as the call centre, and that being a public leader is as normal as sitting behind a supermarket till."

 

UK Survey Finds Racism Alive In The Professions

Ethnic minorities living and working in Britain consider professions including banking, politics, law and journalism, as closed off to them, a report said.

"Some professions, especially those that offer the best pay, are still not perceived by a large minority of the country's BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) population as genuine career options," said Sandra Kerr, National Director of the Race for Opportunity group that carried out the survey for the Business in the Community group.

"Blatant and shocking racism still exists in parts of the world of work," she added in the foreword to the report.

Called "Aspiration and Frustration," the report looked at the attitudes of 1,500 people from all the main ethnic groups living in the UK, including white Britons.

Business in the Community said the survey showed that despite ethnic minorities having a strong work ethic and high career aspirations, more so than white Britons, many ruled out careers in the professions because of perceptions of racism.

No profession was seen as devoid of racism.

Close to half of all respondents, including white Britons, perceived the police to be a racist profession, rising to 72 percent for Black Caribbeans.

Similarly, over a fifth of Black Caribbeans considered the media and legal industries to be either subtly or overtly racist.

More than a quarter cited politics as another problem area, rising to 30 percent when white respondents were excluded and 39 percent for the Black Caribbean group.

Source: Reuters

 

According to the Guardian, the report said: Overall, it is clear that some of the best-paid professions in the UK are still seen as subtly hostile or openly racist towards ethnic minorities...It is disappointing that over so many decades of official initiatives...that a significant minority should see institutional racism across the board.

As a result, nearly one in three people from ethnic minorities felt it was hard to get a job in the media, while under a quarter believed that the same applied to law, 22% to banking and 20% to politics.

To make matters worse, one fifth of ethnic minority respondents also said they had been subject to racially offensive comments at work, with people from a Chinese background being most hit (35%), followed by those of Pakistani heritage (25%).

 

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England's Apartheid Roots

The Anglo-Saxons, who invaded Britain from the 5th century AD, used a system of "medieval apartheid" to drive the indigenous population to extinction. Read more in the following link.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article689536.ece

 

yes yes, we all suck. we get it, thanks a mucho

 

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In order to understand the present racial problems in the UK, one must understand it's past. It's history is written in blood. The body count is too numerous to post here.

'Apartheid' slashed Celtic genes in early England

A system of racial segregation imposed by early Anglo-Saxon invaders in England may have massively boosted the breeding of the Germanic interlopers, much to the detriment of the native Celtic race, researchers claim in a new study.

Genetic analysis of men in modern-day central England shows that more than half of them possess a Y-chromosome that can be traced to a Germanic region - what is now Germany, Holland and Denmark.

Historians argue that fewer than 200,000 Anglo-Saxons invaded the population of about 2 million Celtic Britons during the 5th century. All things being equal, this number should account for just 10% of the gene pool being Anglo-Saxon.

In an attempt to explain this anomaly, Mark Thomas at University College London, UK, and colleagues came up with a theory that an apartheid social structure benefited the people - and therefore the genes - of the Anglo-Saxon race at the expense of the native Celtic genes.

Evidence of the apartheid system can be found in ancient texts such as the 7th century laws of Ine, Thomas says, which place a greater value on the life of an Anglo-Saxon. For example, these laws stated that if an Anglo-Saxon was killed, the "blood money", or "Wergild", payable to the family was up to five times more than the fine payable for the life of a native Celt.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9575-apartheid-slashed-celtic-genes-in-early-england.html

 

LOL..

Reading this thread you would think Britain is some racial hate hotbed...

It so isnt, I have lived here for almost 20 years..its a very tolerate society.

 

oh ffs we are a tiny island nation, its well known that in the distant past we were invaded numerous times and were now a mongrol nation for want of a better word with ancestors and heritage from many different places

 

give us more insight

 

there is a way for you to get more insight into life in the uk. it involves an airplane and time spent around the folks of the uk ( also known as an extended holiday/ work visa/ student visa )

 

Oh the irony...The Chinese and muslims treat foreigners like shit..then they have nerve to whine when the shoe is on the other foot.

 

Yeah my black friends have experienced a lot more racism from Asians and Middle Easterns here than whites.

DenzBenz, you know absolutely sod all about Britain, British culture, British people or relations in Britain. Just stay in America and get the Britain shaped thorn out of your arse, yeah. I'm not really sure what you're trying to prove or who you're trying to prove it to, but judging by the reactions to your Anglophobic nobody believes or really cares about the crap you're writing. People aren't as stupid as you think, they can tell that you're spewing bollocks and nobody is buying it.

 

Okay, it seems he has a Axe to grind about the UK. But in his defense, racism in UK is fairly well hidden. I'm not sure if its because of strong policy or just better education in schools, but when I see stories about hoodlums having attack dogs, drug pushers, gang members and teen pregnancy its seems they are all White, which is the complete reverse of American media.

There was even an Black Brit running for a seat with the Torries, you really have to wonder about Black Republicans in America, but I guess there isn't such questions in the UK.

I would agree that the UK is fairly tolerant, maybe working class Brits and minorities understand they are fighting the same elite power structure, something that's complete LOST on most American Whites and Tim Wise, Noam Comski and the late Howard Zinn try to beat into their heads...

 

Unfortunately, this isn't just exclusive to one race, these problems exist in all racial communities. Last time I checked, we were the worst for teenage pregnancies in Europe and this is both common in black and white people, but it isn't down to race, it's down to class. The segregation in the UK is mostly down to class.
Gang culture is the same. There are black gangs, white gangs, black and white gangs and Asian gangs. The only ones that have been purely single race have been the Asian gangs.

But the last part of your post is completely right. There is still a lot of racism but from my experience and my friends' experiences it is between Asians and Blacks and Whites, rather than between blacks and whites. My black friends are just as racist towards Asians as my white friends.
It is class that separates people here. I think people that haven't been to England can't comprehend just how strong the class segregation is. The conservatives coming into power has only made it worse, unfortunately.

But yeah, great post

In regards to DenzBenz, my issue with him is not that he dislikes England. It's not even that he posts so many articles criticising England. If what he was posting was actually RELEVANT, such as the class divide in the UK or the rate of teenage pregnancies in the UK, or what the effects of the conservatives coming into power will do for working class/middle class relations, then I'd be all up for discussing that and I could accept his criticism of my country. But he posts things like 'BRITS ARE THE WORST DREST!!!' 'HEATHROW AIRPORT IS A BAD AIRPORT!!!'
Who actually cares? There are way more important things going on in the world to give to shits about an airport.

 

Oh I would agree, I was just saying the way the BBC (and other news services) covers social issues its very even handed. Here all the criminals are Black and Brown and Wall St. Thieves are painted as being "Smart".

Much of what is going on in the UK is Class Warfare and not broken up along racial lines. Again that goes to the fact that the UK enjoys some solidarity on my social issues, including Health Care and Education. While some my feel they aren't extended the same opportunities as Whites, that still is based more in Class than in race and British society still needs some "Social Engineering".

I generally agree with you Russia because I do know in fact that the US and UK share a largely Cold War based view of Russia and Russians in general.

Everything in the media is based on that.

 

Very true, which why 9/10 times I use them when citing references on this forum.

 

tried to rep you but i have to spread it about a bit first

im with you, the brits here arnt mad at denz for bad mouthing england, its the fact that he posts so much irrelevant crap using out of date info or laughable sources like the daily fail and those shopping sites that going on the name im guessing are italian

 

......damn.