For and Against Britain Being Racist Today

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For and Against Britain Being Racist Today

Advantages

  • Lord Parekh in 2010 said "racism is institutional in upper tiers of British society" - claiming that educational, judicial and political institutions have failed to tackle racism. Furthermore, ethnic representation of NHS trusts and CEO's of hospitals is extremely small even though ethnic minorities provide almost a quarter of our doctors
  • A IPPR survey showed that around a third of white british people still have racist attitudes
  • In 2010, Dianne Abbot was the first candidate to be of an ethnic minority but she came last out of 5 candidates
  • A study in April 2010 identified that to secure a job interview, they had to send out 74% more applications for ethnic minority candidates (significant and widespread discrimination)
  • Stephen Lawrence case exposed institutional racism in the metropolitan police

Disadvantages

  • Race relations acts were passed in 1965, 1968 and 1976 so in comparison to previous years, the law is preventing racism as before
  • Since 1976, racism has been outlawed both intentional and unintentional
  • A PSI study in 1997 showed that a third of African-Carribean men have white partner so there is not the same public attitudes as before
  • There are senior BAME's (black, asian, minority-ethnics) in politics and the most senior currently being Baroness Warsi
  • UEFA, is proposing ways in which racism in the game can be eliminated and brining in a 10 game ban for any racism behaviour

Evaluation

In terms of the law, Britain is no longer racism today and aims to give fair and equal opportunities to members of ethnic group but the situation is more complicated that law alone. Whilst racism is being combatted in every area, there are deep rooted feelings even amongst people but certainly underlying in institutions of employment. Britain is a country of institutional racism, especially in the highest tiers of society.

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