Judging some of the comments in here, the answer won't surprise you.
Are we a racist society?
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Racism is to some extend the natural order. We are drawn towards others with familiar backgrounds. Take Brits settling in Spain, they create ex pat communities.
Migrants that settle here tend to seek out others from their home country.
And thus different communities form and that leads to distrust of "that lot over there"
Add in political discourse by Farage, Braverman, Trump which they use as a platform to further their career.......
I bet if a family of different race moved in next door to a forum member on here, I bet the vast majority would be friendly towards them.
Migrants that settle here tend to seek out others from their home country.
And thus different communities form and that leads to distrust of "that lot over there"
Add in political discourse by Farage, Braverman, Trump which they use as a platform to further their career.......
I bet if a family of different race moved in next door to a forum member on here, I bet the vast majority would be friendly towards them.
"I'm not a racist, but....." you just know what is coming next.
All of us are guilty of racism, one way or another. We all have prejudices. No matter what colour or flavour. It's those having the intelligence, education and whit, to see past all the bile spouted by those that openly perpetuate hatred, that make a difference.
….keep their mouths shut, their heads down and be closet racists while accusing others of being the same?
An earlier study (by Michael Norton and Samuel Sommers) showed that a growing number of White Americans believed “reverse racism”, or racism against White people, was the more prevalent form of racial bias.
I've heard that said by people Stateside a good deal over the last twenty years, becoming more strident as Trump, their spiritual leader, poured fuel on the fire. Now it's being repeated by Farage and his trolls who've gained ground on the old Guard Tory party and will say anything to rouse support from the rabble who're quite prepared to listen to his lies.
I've heard that said by people Stateside a good deal over the last twenty years, becoming more strident as Trump, their spiritual leader, poured fuel on the fire. Now it's being repeated by Farage and his trolls who've gained ground on the old Guard Tory party and will say anything to rouse support from the rabble who're quite prepared to listen to his lies.
The CV name study results are disappointing but probably the best simple measure of how racist society is as a whole.
If people aren't being hired because their names are Goldstein, or Mohammed, then there's a real problem.
If people aren't being hired because their names are Goldstein, or Mohammed, then there's a real problem.
All sorts of conflicting opinions have published on the matter but as a wise man once said "follow the science..."
Scientists Valentina Di Stasio and Anthony Heath conducted a study in 2019 applying for approximately 3,200 jobs in the UK using CVs that were identical except for the name of the person who was ostensibly applying for the post. They found that applicants with Black-sounding names (whether Nigerian, Ethiopian, Somalian or Ugandan) had a 12.3% callback rate. Despite their completely identical CVs, applicants with White, British-sounding names had a much more successful 24.1% callback rate: almost twice as high. Heath and Di Stasio went on to publish a meta-analysis of all the available field experiments on hiring discrimination against all ethnic minorities in the UK, so their final analysis included 43 comparisons between White, Black, south Asian and east Asian targets. However, if we focus on the different results for White and Black people, the authors say this: “The summary discrimination ratio is a substantial and highly significant 1:56 ... In this series of studies, Black Caribbean applicants had to make about 50% more applications than their white British counterparts in order to receive a positive response.”
Scientists Valentina Di Stasio and Anthony Heath conducted a study in 2019 applying for approximately 3,200 jobs in the UK using CVs that were identical except for the name of the person who was ostensibly applying for the post. They found that applicants with Black-sounding names (whether Nigerian, Ethiopian, Somalian or Ugandan) had a 12.3% callback rate. Despite their completely identical CVs, applicants with White, British-sounding names had a much more successful 24.1% callback rate: almost twice as high. Heath and Di Stasio went on to publish a meta-analysis of all the available field experiments on hiring discrimination against all ethnic minorities in the UK, so their final analysis included 43 comparisons between White, Black, south Asian and east Asian targets. However, if we focus on the different results for White and Black people, the authors say this: “The summary discrimination ratio is a substantial and highly significant 1:56 ... In this series of studies, Black Caribbean applicants had to make about 50% more applications than their white British counterparts in order to receive a positive response.”
In 2024, 90 of the United Kingdom's 650 Members of Parliament were non-white, 66 of which were members of the Labour Party, while 15 were in the Conservative party, and five non-white MPs were members of the Liberal Democrats.
How many are in the Reform Party?
I suggest one of the underlying reasons why Reform is gathering more support is due to the Tories having a black leader...
How many are in the Reform Party?
I suggest one of the underlying reasons why Reform is gathering more support is due to the Tories having a black leader...
There will be elements of that (hypocrisy), yes.
That doesn't in any way argue against my point. The CV studies show that some names make it far less likely for your CV to make it to the next stage of recruitment, not that it is impossible to get a job.
When the names in question are traditional Anglo Saxon Vs Traditional Nigerian, but the contents of the CV are otherwise identical, it's hard to find any way to explain that other than racism.
Most big firms now don't disclose the name, sex, age or ethnicity of the applicant for reasons of racism, ageism or sexism.
Very large organisations do, sometimes, small to medium don't as a rule.
And that reinforces my point if anything. As a society we discriminate by name so often (as a proxy for race) so much we have to put these processes in to avoid it.
