August 7, 2005
DITCH THE HYPHEN TOO:
Britain to rebrand ethnic minorities (Richard Ford and Helen Rumbelow, 8/08/05, Times of London)
THE Government is proposing to rename ethnic minority groups along US lines in an attempt to strengthen and highlight their British roots.Minorities could be described as, for example “Asian-British” rather than simply as “Asian” under proposals being considered by Hazel Blears, the Home Office Minister.
The plan to adopt the American practice of identifying ethnic heritage will be controversial with some British ethnic minorities likely to claim that it is racist. The idea was condemned as fatuous and retrograde by critics last night.
Why not go us one better and call them British? Posted by Orrin Judd at August 7, 2005 9:07 PM
Comments
Not a good move. We're all Americans.
It's the multi-cultists who want to divide and conquer by hyphenating us and then pitting one hyphen against another.
We should make the media stop referring to us by their stupid names.
Posted by: erp at August 7, 2005 11:10 PM