Ethnicity Codes

Fishbait said:
White Cornish...
White English...

Erm, when did Cornwall leave England? :eek:
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Ethnicity contains a large element of subjectivity, so it's not bound by defined things like countries.

There are common precedents in the UK. For example, is someone from and in England English, British or European? Well, that depends on them. What if their parents came from Ireland...are they Irish, English, British or European? Depends on them.

Cornwall (and most of Devon) does have strong form as a distinct area, going back to the tribal days of prehistoric Britain (before it was called Britain) and right up until the late middle ages at least. It was under Roman rule, but the people living there didn't become Romans. It was under Anglo-Saxon rule, but the people living there mostly didn't really become Anglo-Saxons. Even after the Norman conquest and oppression of England, Cornwall retained a different language and was semi-autonomous with its own Parliament.
 
I'm surprised they have even got separate categories for the home nations, it used to be deemed racist to identify as English instead of British.
 
Interesting that white people take up two of the six pages.

SpeedFreak said:
Why have I recieved 6 pages of ethnicity codes from my children's nursery, of which I am to select one that matches? Why is this requested? What is it used for? Does this help in reducing descrimination or improve outcomes?
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'Of which I am to select one that matches' is incorrect grammar.'

You've also misspelled 'received' and 'discrimination.'
 
ak22 said:
Instead of wasting six pages of paper ... why not just let people put down write down their ethnicity?
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As much of a total pointless waste of time this is, if you're going to do it, this is probably the least annoying way without digitising the service. There's a reason why there are codes, it's clearly for data collection (that will not be of any use to anyone in government as they are a bunch of clowns).
 
StriderX said:
As much of a total pointless waste of time this is, if you're going to do it, this is probably the least annoying way without digitising the service. There's a reason why there are codes, it's clearly for data collection (that will not be of any use to anyone in government as they are a bunch of clowns).
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Little boxes.
 
In theory knowing this allows provisioning of services, so people can aim money where it is needed to improve standards of English etc throughout schooling where it might be a second language to many of the class occupants.

In theory.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
In theory knowing this allows provisioning of services, so people can aim money where it is needed to improve standards of English etc throughout schooling where it might be a second language to many of the class occupants.

In theory.
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Funny because services never seem to improve...
 
Evangelion said:
Interesting that white people take up two of the six pages.
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Quite a large proportion of the population of the UK has relatively pale skin. More than a third.

It's also quite likely that local ethnicities will be given a finer slicing than ones from further away. So, for example, a survey in the USA would probably list "Belgian" as one entry whereas a survey in Belgium would probably split that into at least 3 entries.
 
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