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.
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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.
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.
