hard2miss Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I can tell the difference between a Chinese and a Japanese and I can tell a Vietnamese from both of them I am sure I have said this before on here, but I was in the car of a Pakistani friend when we went past the Northern General Hospital and a load of foreign workers crossed the road, hard hats on ect, and I said something like 'All those Indians must be working on the Hospital new build'. My friend turned at me with a degree of amazement and said 'Can you tell the difference between Pakistani's and Indians?'. 'Of course' I told him, 'I like Indians'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I am sure I have said this before on here, but I was in the car of a Pakistani friend when we went past the Northern General Hospital and a load of foreign workers crossed the road, hard hats on ect, and I said something like 'All those Indians must be working on the Hospital new build'. My friend turned at me with a degree of amazement and said 'Can you tell the difference between Pakistani's and Indians?'. 'Of course' I told him, 'I like Indians'. Ethnically Indians and Pakistanis are the same divided only be religious beliefs. A Sikh Hindu is easily identifiable by the type of turban he wears. That would be known in England but not always here. A Hindu was killed just after 9/11 by a gunman who mistook him for a Muslim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Ethnically Indians and Pakistanis are the same divided only be religious beliefs. A Sikh Hindu is easily identifiable by the type of turban he wears. That would be known in England but not always here. A Hindu was killed just after 9/11 by a gunman who mistook him for a Muslim Sikhism and Hinduism are two different religions, aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs grissom Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Or , we can all stop all this what race are you nonsense . We are all the human race ! When we have forms to fill in with an ethnicity element , our family crosses out the racial boxes and writes 'irrelevant ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hard2miss Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Or , we can all stop all this what race are you nonsense . We are all the human race ! When we have forms to fill in with an ethnicity element , our family crosses out the racial boxes and writes 'irrelevant ' Too simplistic, life is not as 'black and white' as you suggest I never and have never filled out the race forms, I think its all rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Sidney Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Or , we can all stop all this what race are you nonsense . We are all the human race ! When we have forms to fill in with an ethnicity element , our family crosses out the racial boxes and writes 'irrelevant ' Paradoxically the reason you give for not ticking the boxes is the very reason they are there. How would we know if there was discrimination without looking at the stats for access to, for example, jobs and public services... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitisbad Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Paradoxically the reason you give for not ticking the boxes is the very reason they are there. How would we know if there was discrimination without looking at the stats for access to, for example, jobs and public services... but then people get hung up on trying to appear to not discriminate e.g. 'we don;t have any black people working for us lets hire some' maybe no black people applied for the job. That then leads into reverse discrimination where you aren't actually just taking the best person for the job in a bid to appear non racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffragette1 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 but then people get hung up on trying to appear to not discriminate e.g. 'we don;t have any black people working for us lets hire some' maybe no black people applied for the job. That then leads into reverse discrimination where you aren't actually just taking the best person for the job in a bid to appear non racist. As Frank says, the only way to monitor that is to record it. It's done conifdentially and the information is held separately from the application form etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Sidney Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 As Frank says, the only way to monitor that is to record it. It's done conifdentially and the information is held separately from the application form etc. Eh, am I dreaming? you agreed with me....:thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Eh, am I dreaming? you agreed with me....:thumbsup:*faints* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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