Re: Racism in England
Originally posted by demon-lllama
If you are interested in this, I hope you find the information on the article interesting..My main question on racism would be if you think it is appropriate to call someone a race.
I found that people base logic on London rather than the US nowaday, and I am quite certain this is so.
I read an article from 2007 on how a British lady in England/London had a child when she was with a man from India, though the article stressed that the child was black and Asian as the point.
The main point the lady said in the end was that she couldn't expect to have her youngest daughter be a Brady Bunch child, like her older sons who are all British with gold hair and blue eyes. The main thing she realized was her guilt in being racist without being able to help it to her daughter, who was still an infant at the time of the article. The tone she ended with was that she "calls herself 'white'" and just has this child forever who has a "small foot" in each culture to enjoy.
The child started out with blue eyes, and the lady seemed depressed to suddenly find that the features of her own child simply got darker, as stated from her interview.
I don't have the article at the moment, but it didn't really tell much else. Some of the comments, by other women in London/England, indicate the solving of the issue as something new. They seemed totally surprised of the article's existence, at all, and felt for the Asian/black child. So, the issue was left, at that, basically. They had a picture of the lady, who looked about 45 or 50 with white blond hair and blue eyes and fairly lighter skin, a bit obese. They also had a picture of Angelina Jolie with a child from Africa.
No thank you, I don't believe in miscegenation.