This perhaps explains why so many Brits are resistant to a US analysis of British racial problems since by their very existence such analysis can be seen to be risking the disruption of the harmony.
That might be why so many white Brits pretend we live in a "colourblind" non-racist society but the general analysis in your comment doesn't reflect my views as a non-white Brit or the views of most of the non-white Brits I know. I and other non-white Brits involved in fandom have expressed our views repeatedly and been told they don't count because, apparently, there are still very many white Brits who don't want to hear or understand our points of view (plural) about the society and communities in which we live.
perhaps the old problem of Yanks complaining that Brits are denying all racial problems becomes a little more explicable.
Except that many of my non-white Brit friends who discuss race online are wrongly assumed to be USians even after they've corrected that misconception on multiple occasions. I have also been told that my views about British racism don't count because I'm "in a minority" and supposedly "don't really understand" Britain/Britishness/British people (which is, of course, a racist response to my existence as a non-white Brit).
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That might be why so many white Brits pretend we live in a "colourblind" non-racist society but the general analysis in your comment doesn't reflect my views as a non-white Brit or the views of most of the non-white Brits I know. I and other non-white Brits involved in fandom have expressed our views repeatedly and been told they don't count because, apparently, there are still very many white Brits who don't want to hear or understand our points of view (plural) about the society and communities in which we live.
perhaps the old problem of Yanks complaining that Brits are denying all racial problems becomes a little more explicable.
Except that many of my non-white Brit friends who discuss race online are wrongly assumed to be USians even after they've corrected that misconception on multiple occasions. I have also been told that my views about British racism don't count because I'm "in a minority" and supposedly "don't really understand" Britain/Britishness/British people (which is, of course, a racist response to my existence as a non-white Brit).