This feels really conflicting. Of course I agree he is English and he should not be on the receiving end of racism, nobody should.
His government, however, actively boosted racist messaging on immigration, so I can’t help but feel he is at least in part to blame politically for this.
The reason this feels difficult is because I worry this feels a bit like victim blaming, although again I really do want emphasise how much the conservatives have helped boost the far right and racist views.
He was hoist with his own petard. Not so much victim blaming, as “I didn’t think those
leopards[racists] would eat my [non-white] face.”It is funny the people who would agree he is British, he is, are people who also think he’s a wanker
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He’s something of a bell-end, and I’m not 100% certain he’s human - but he was born in England, so whatever he actually is, he’s an English one of it.
If I’m ethically English and born in China, am I Chinese?
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.
Have you ever completed a census?
White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller Roma Any other White background
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/ethnic-groups/
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.
Children born in Wales and adults who’ve lived here for much of their life are Welsh as far as I and most people I know are concerned. Fuck off with your ethno-nationalist cretinism.
He was born in England. What do you imagine he is, then, if not English?
To add to this:
Asian or Asian British Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Chinese Any other Asian background
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/ethnic-groups/
British.
If he was born in England your in for a shock
I know where he’s born. Don’t conflate nationality and ethnicity.
He’s British.
