Isn't Gina Miller Asian?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5011441/Gina-Miller-named-UK-s-influential-black-person.html

/// And today she came top of the Powerlist's annual publication of the 100 most influential people of African or African-Caribbean heritage in Britain. ///

[jno]

no.

[fiction-factory]

Born in British Guyana

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory
/// Born in British Guyana ///

If an English white person was born to white English parents in British Guyana, would that person also be able to qualify as one of the most influential people of African/African-Caribbean heritage?

[jackthehat]

You really do struggle with matters of race and nationally, don't you, AOG?

[jackthehat]

*nationality

[jno]

I think heritage in this case implies DNA - you'd actually have to be descended from Africans, and not just the ones who left 2 million years ago.

[anneasquith]

Congratulations to her .

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// nationally /// *nationality ///

Seems that is you rather than I who is struggling with nationality.

[jackthehat]

Ho...Ho...Ho...titter.... :o(

[mikey4444]

jack....and its a titter fro me a well !

Barking up the wrong tree on this one AOG !

[Old_Geezer]

Haven't been following her influence. Has she done more than delay the Brexit proceedings by convincing the judges that something the House had already agreed had to be re-agreed ? That's influence of a sort, not the good sort, but surely there must be more to get a mention in the list ?

Since the list is one of folk with African/African-Caribbean family roots I would imagine she has African ancestors. British Guyana is part of the British West Indies so she wouldn't personally be African nor Asian, but it is conceivable that ancestors further back in time, were African and ended up in the West Indies.

Since a popular theory is that humankind came out of Africa, aren't we all of African heritage ?

[Gromit]

// Isn't Gina Miller Asian? //

Unless hurricane Marie caused more havoc than has been reported, British Guyana is still in the West Indies,which is a hell of a long way from Asia.

Guyana

[youngmafbog]

I'm not sure it's her heritage you should be questioning, more why they think she is influential.

For one she is just the front person for a load of remainicas keen to keep their snout in the trough one way or another and second she has not influenced anyone anyway.

[youngmafbog]

Just out of interest does anyone know whoo has been named as UK's most influential white person?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit
Her father and Mother's surname are Singh doesn't that make them Indian Sikhs?

[Zacs-Master]

AOG, you really do need to educate yourself on nationalities and race. If only to stop yourself looking like a bit of a twonk by posting these half baked threads.

[anotheoldgit]

Old-Geezer

/// Since a popular theory is that humankind came out of Africa, aren't we all of African
heritage ? ///

*** The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not
Africa. ***

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/

[anotheoldgit]

youngmafbog

/// Just out of interest does anyone know whoo has been named as UK's most influential white
person? ///

Come now YMB you know perfectly well that it doesn't work like that.

They are constantly going on about equality and togetherness, whilst always promoting separation.

[Gromit]

// Her father and Mother's surname are Singh doesn't that make them Indian Sikhs? //

No. Her parents were born in British Guyana, so they might be British Sihks. They have a Sikh name but that does not necessarily mean they still are Sikhs, not everyone with a christian name is christian etc.

Lots of parts of the British Empire were colonised by subjects from other parts of it. For example, there are lots of Indian Asians in former Empire countries in Africa.