Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity

• makingrain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If I’m born in China, am I Chinese?

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That sounds like a question for mid-90s Hong Kong! :)

    It’s an interesting question though, as “Chinese” can be used as both a Nationality and an Ethnicity (and a language and a style of food). I don’t think I’ve ever heard of “English” being used as an Ethnicity before, but it wouldn’t surprise me if people had started trying to do that.

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    • makingrain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Have you ever completed a census?

      White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller Roma Any other White background

      …service.gov.uk/…/ethnic-groups/

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      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, I’ve done quite a few. From your link, it looks like they recently added “English” as a subsection of “white” in 2011 (it used to just say “British”). Anyway, as far as I would understand it, the ethnicity in the link above is “white”. I don’t think Sunak was saying he was ethnically white, but that his national identity was English - not that I’m defending him in any way - as mentioned above, he’s a bell-end.

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      • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Children born in Wales and adults who’ve lived here for much of their life are Welsh as gar as I and most people I know are concerned. Fuck off with your ethno-nationalist cretinism.

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