Racism moves to rural areas in Britain

The British Institute of Race Relations (IRR) says racially-motivated violence has shifted from inner city areas to towns and villages across Britain.

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UK racism on rise

“Racist attacks against Muslim and other ethnic minorities in Britain are on the rise, with politicians and media fuelling hostility and prejudice against minorities”, a new European report finds.

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Doubling number of racist incidents in primary schools in the UK in 2010

The number of racist incidents is increasing in primary schools in the UK

These shock figures have revealed that racism is increasing in primary schools in the UK. This also shows that these figures were higher if all complaints were reported. Young students are afraid to report racist incidents due to different reasons.

You can read the full report here.

Others have also published studies showing large incidents of racist bullies against ethnic minority pupils in Britain’s schools. This can also be read here.

Racism in the UK- A Preview of History

Racism has long been an issue in the UK and it is still present in different ways.

Please watch the videos below:

Part 1: http://youtu.be/efI6T8lovqY

Part2: http://youtu.be/IdBDRbjx9jo

Part3: http://youtu.be/oCJHJWaNL-g

Racism is present in a very high level of significance in Britain's schools

“Racism is still an issue in England’s schools, with pupils and teachers showing racist behaviour”, research shows. This study reveals that “more than 83% of teachers questioned said they had witnessed racist attitudes or behaviour amongst their students”.  “31% of those questioned said they had seen similar racist behaviour amongst teachers”. These racist attitudes were significantly higher towards those of the Asian pupils.

This study, by anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card, supported by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) was carried to investigate racist issues and inequality in the education system in the United Kingdom (UK). In addition to other related studies, this research again demonstrates that racism is present in a very high level of significance in Britain.  

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The racism continues to scar people

Old fashioned slavery in 18th century

The racism continues to scar people in the world that we live in. Although it is claimed that slavery has been discontinued, it has really been replaced by modern slavery in 21^st century. Even though there is no scientific basis for race division, the theory of racism was developed to justify the slave trade in the early days of capitalism. The brutality of slavery is portrayed in this 18^th century drawing. You are left to draw modern slavery yourself as it still continues to threaten lives of many humans even in developed countries such as Britain.


An article written about the origins of racism can be found here.   

Racism against Chinese population in the UK

This shocking research, which has been conducted in an appropriate methodology in three British Universities, reveals many key points about the presence of racism against Chinese population in the UK.

These key themes can be summarized as below:

1. “Most of respondents in this research suffered various types of racist harassment and violence for a long period of time”.

2. “The racial incidents threatened psychological and physical well-being of the victims and damaged their relationship with white people”.

3. “Almost most of the racial victims were dissatisfied with police services as the police even fail to investigate the reported cases. As a result, the majority of them did not have confidence in the police in the UK. Some of them no longer formally reported racist incidents as they recognize that the police are not willing to actively follow up the racial cases”.

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Racial Violence in the UK- The Buried Issue

This comprehensive article reports that “despite a number of deaths over racial disputes in the UK, politicians remain in denial about the extent and severity of racial violence and popular racism”. Indeed, it has been argued “even governments’ actions have in fact contributed to an unremitting and largely silent outpouring of racial animosity and violence in the UK”. This research clearly demonstrates that direct and violent racism is well present in the UK.

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Racist Violence in the United Kingdom

This report published by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) in Brussels, March 2011 reveals shocking statistics about occurrence of racism in the UK. The report shows that “207,000 racial motivated incidents in 2007 have been filed by the British Crime Survey where nearly 80% of the victims of racial violence were men, and 20% were women. “In cases where the ethnicity of the victim was known, over 45% were Asian, 18% black, 10% white British, 7% Polish, 1.25% Chinese and 1.25% from Traveller communities”. “However, these figures do not include majority of racial incidents as the victims might not feel like reporting racist incidents due to lack of confidence in the police, and because they feel that their case would not be taken seriously” the report also illustrates.

You can download and read the full report here.   

Is Britain more racist than it used to be?

While the statistics about racism are rarely seen in the press but racism is making a comeback in new forms in the UK.

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