Where are you from? Is it an insult?

Well we all talk more or less the same but there are other methods- here it is which school did you go to? It is slowly changing but still holds for locals. I don't think race is so much of an issue because there are dozens of different races all within a stonesthrow. No one notices anymore, at least not where we live. Probably different if you are in the centre or the outback.

GrannyGravy13

tickingbird

Fleurpepper

Yes, that is the answer regularly given.

However…..

…… just say what you’re implying.

I have got an early New Year’s resolution which is to ignore people who are posting/talking rubbish.

Sounds a bit like mine, which is not to allow those on the extremes of a discussion to make me feel extreme.

You are one of the few on GN actually employing people at the moment. We may not agree on everything GrannyGravy but in this climate I would raise my hat to you (if I wore one ).

Lollin

Fleurpepper

vegansrock

But if they said they were British from London would you follow up with, “but where are you really from? “ That’s the potentially offensive bit.

Exactly- just depends how it is done! Not read every post, but this video came to mind.

youtu.be/crAv5ttax2I

I have a rather strange accent, and I am asked the question all the time, and I don't mind at all. But a very different situation.

Good video but of course it will sweep over many an ignorant head.

As learning to communicate politely will over the heads of many with an arrogant sense of superiority Lollin.

Being bad mannered and rude is being bad mannered and rude whatever the reason.

Just realised Lollin, you may actually be so arrogant that you don't realise what I was saying was because you were being unacceptably bad mannered and rude. It was.

Fleurpepper

vegansrock

But if they said they were British from London would you follow up with, “but where are you really from? “ That’s the potentially offensive bit.

Exactly- just depends how it is done! Not read every post, but this video came to mind.

youtu.be/crAv5ttax2I

I have a rather strange accent, and I am asked the question all the time, and I don't mind at all. But a very different situation.

I wonder why we don't run videos like this on TV. I would/should help reach a wider audience.

We're all arrogant DaisyAnne but you're completely angelic.

Apparently.

Oh, wad some power the giftie gi'e us....

volver I really do feel sorry for you. Do you stalk people in real life?

Yes. I have no life.

Fleurpepper
I know you watch British tv dispute the fact you are Swiss and live in Switzerland.
Has the wide range of accents on British tv passed you by?
Of course it hasn’t.
But that fact wouldn’t support your racists under the bed campaign, would it.
But you carry on and fill your boots with this rubbish.

Advertising and TV has changed in the U.K. every ethnicity along with different family dynamics are now portrayed in print, programming and tv adverts.

Mixed race families, lesbian families, gay families, families with disabilities, singles I could go on but hopefully you get the picture.

Long gone are the days of middle class white family with two children being the norm , and rightly so.

Just wondering what is a middle class family ? And why white ? And why two children? Is that some sort of average or what ?

Our prejudices are often not acknowledged and subtly hidden by all sorts of other factors. I know of 2 people who, with Brexit, made the explicit decision to only employ 'British' people, in Ye Olde fashioned sense

I knew Brexit had to come into it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Anybody else up for a game of “Brexit Bingo” ?

nanna8

Just wondering what is a middle class family ? And why white ? And why two children? Is that some sort of average or what ?

It’s called a stereotype. It still has power

Many a true word spoken in jest/sarcasm.

What was that thing about stalking again...?

Our prejudices are often not acknowledged and subtly hidden by all sorts of other factors. I know of 2 people who, with Brexit, made the explicit decision to only employ 'British' people, in Ye Olde fashioned sense

What exactly your definition of "Ye Olde fashioned British"?

My definition would be Welsh and Cornish who were driven to the edges of the land by those marauding invaders.

So is a prerequisite of employability to be the ability to speak fluent Welsh or Cornish?
Tidy! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
I can't find a Cornish flag, that's disgusting that is.

I have a rather strange accent, and I am asked the question all the time, and I don't mind at all. But a very different situation.

Why is it different?
Because it's not at the Palace? 🤔

nanna8

Well we all talk more or less the same but there are other methods- here it is which school did you go to? It is slowly changing but still holds for locals. I don't think race is so much of an issue because there are dozens of different races all within a stonesthrow. No one notices anymore, at least not where we live. Probably different if you are in the centre or the outback.

No, it's not.

"The Outback" is like a World Jamboree!

I don't think race is so much of an issue

Have you verified that with any aboriginal people?

Mixed race families, lesbian families, gay families, families with disabilities, singles I could go on but hopefully you get the picture

Or all together in one family like ours 😀

I haven’t met any First Nation people since I was in the Northern Territory a few years back so I can’t say. I don’t claim knowledge I haven’t got, unlike some.

Plenty aboriginal people in Adelaide when I lived there. Quite often in Victoria Square, or in Tandanya.

How strange that you've never seen any where you live nanna8.

nanna8

I haven’t met any First Nation people since I was in the Northern Territory a few years back so I can’t say. I don’t claim knowledge I haven’t got, unlike some.

I've met quite a few Indigenous Australians.
They're not separate from other Australians.

They're not separate from other Australians.

Have you verified that with any aboriginal people?

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/24/discrimination-against-indigenous-australians-has-risen-dramatically-survey-finds

Of course everything may have changed in the last 18 months...probably not though.

Quite often in Victoria Square, or in Tandanya
So were they friends of yours or you just saw them?


Indigenous Australians are not all a separate entity as you seem to be saying - they live next door, work in schools, nurseries, their children are at school, play football etc with our children, they are friends and neighbours.

Some prefer to live a simpler life as they have done for thousands of years (it is probably the best way to live for the sake of the planet). But then so do other immigrants.

Unfortunately even Indigenous Australians are disagreeing amongst themselves on the way forward.