Ethnic Minority ?

[raysparx]

Who in Britain are the ethnic minority? an aunt of mine got on a bus in London last week and she was the only white person on the bus,so what does this mean?

[derekpara]

Time she moved ?

[raysparx]

Move to where derekpara? Maybe, Bradford,or Leicester.?

[joko]

depends on your area i suppose. as derek said in parts of bradford centre, whites are the minority, on the outskirts they are not. i live in the outskirts of liverpool you hardly see any black people in my area but a fair few chinese and asian people. whereas in the town centre its a real mix

[Postdog]

I heard on the news the other week that white anglo saxons are now considered a minority in relation to the whole UK population. Maybe this just means, given the diversity, that they are no longer a majority.

[steveyk]

Think it depends on where you live. I'm near north London and there are lots of Turkish,Asian,African and multiple Eastern European nationalities. But, if you were to go to say, Cornwall, I'm sure it would be totally different

[steve @ home]

I think the story shows that the WASP majority can all afford cars and taxis to get around while the bus-riders are trapped in underpaid work relying on public transport

[flashpig]

From CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html

White (English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6% (2001 census)

Anyone who isn't white English could consider themselves to be a minority.

[flashpig]

London;s demographics, from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Demographics

In the 2001 census, 71% of these seven million people classed their ethnic group as white (classified as British White (60%), Irish White (3%) or "Other White" (8%) in the 2001 census), 12% as Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani or "Other Asian" (mostly Sri Lankan and other South Asian ethnicities), 5% as black African, 5% as black Caribbean, 1% as "Other Black", 3% as mixed race, 1% as Chinese and 2% as Other (mostly Filipino, Japanese, and Vietnamese). The largest religious groupings are Christian (58.2%), No Religion (15.8%), Muslim (7.2%), Hindu (4.1%), Jewish (2.1%), and Sikh (1.5%). 21.8% of inhabitants were born outside the European Union. The Irish are the largest foreign-born group in London (numbering approximately 200,000).

Again, if you aren't British White, you're a minority.

[bernardo]

As the others have said - in the UK, 92% are white and 8% are non-white - therefore anybody who si not wehite is a minority. But c.50 to 60% of all ethnic minorities in the UK live in London. Within London, there are various local concentrations - e.g. Bengalis in Tower Hamlets, and Sikhs in Southall. So in some parts of inner London, and in some Inner London boroughs, and in some northern towns like Leicester, the white population is less than 50% and therefore a minority.

The fact that your aunt was the only white person on the bus merely means that she was the only white person on the bus.

[Drusilla1S]

I agree with the other posts. If you move outside of the major cities, you will rarely see minority groups in very large numbers. Not all minority groups stand out either. I'm a Londoner, my ex husband was French and both of our red haired daughters are French, but speak with London accents. I often forget they are not white British and have to remember that when filling in forms. What a wonderful mixed up place London is. I wouldn't want it any other way.

[jaberwocky]

how long before the whites 'are' the minority? one muslim cleric stated that he would not settle until britain was a muslim state.and he gets benefits whilst living here.cushy or what.