This is simply not true of ethnic minorities in Britain. Ours is often a very British story, of how we came to be here. It is why academic studies consistently find ethnic minorities have a mildly higher/stronger sense of British identity than white British.
Maybe mildly more a thing about young people. Anout tone of identity: nation + internationalism. Not about an entirely post-national cosmopolitan identity for most young adults
BSA data shows "somewhat proud" to be British > "very proud" to be British.
The story of Windrush is about 492 people who knew about their claim to be British - yet arriving in a country which did not know it's own history as they did. And 2 generations to secure again that strong claim to being British with which they had begun
Why do ethnic minorities tend to feel that little bit more British? This is ESRC data (2012) but it's a repeated finding in studies over time britishfuture.org/why-do-non-whi…
We all have a different personal story. But here from 2014 is why national identity mattered to me growing up - featuring Gujarat and Cork via Doncaster - and why I think it is going to prove difficult to dispense with in this age of identity. britishfuture.org/is-there-a-pro…
A personal account of national identities
Try talking to refugees to Britain - from Hitler, or Hungary in the 1950s through to Syria today - about what becoming British has meant to them. We could argue for seven post-war decades of refugee protection as a British value to keep upholding today itv.com/news/london/up…
Pride in being British is a multi-ethnic social norm, shared by over three-quarters of British ethnic minorities & white British. Only 1 in 10 (white & non-white) choose "not proud". @DAaronovitch previews forthcoming @britishfuture research on race. thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…
Thread from @robfordmancs on the Labour party, and whether the "alienate minorities and the young" intuition stands up
Oh dear, oh dear. A fortnight after January 20th, here comes more US Presidential Election news from the parallel alternate universe of @MaajidNawaz
Oh dear, oh dear. Opponents of Trump's empty, unsubstantiated electoral fantasies (that he could put to the US courts) and the fantastical conspiracies of Sidney Powell et al are now compared to the Emperor Palaptine in Star Wars!
Oh dear. Are we really going back to watch out for the Supreme Court intervention in the 2020 Presidential Election?!!
While ethnic minority vaccine hesitancy is an important concern, I was very disappointed by the lack of care/nuance with which the @bbcquestiontime chair seemed suggest there is an anti-vaccine norm among minorities. See attitudes evidence yesterday @NCPoliticsUK
Thread on evidence. Broadcasters have been careful about getting the balance right (the gap is a legit story to report). I do hope there will be an immediate editorial look at whether loose generalisations by @bbcquestiontime chair tonight got that wrong
Issue is much less @bbcquestiontime itself but whether elite 'word of mouth' may see broadcasters amplify anti-vaccine norm (why don't black prople/minorities trust vaccines?) rather than accuracy/nuance
> how can pro-vax norm widen?
> why is there a larger hesitant *minority*?
It is vg to see the USA now return to its long-held commitment to contributing to refugee protection, after a rupture with that tradition under the last administration.
President Biden has both a progressive and a broadly popular set of policies on immigration.
73% of Americans support taking in refugees fleeing war & persecution. 85% of Democrats but 58% of Republicans too despite Trump's unpopular 'populism' on this. (Pew, Sept 2019)
Perhaps counter-intuitively, Trump's highly polarising approach has shifted US attitudes against him overall. Surprisingly it is Republican voters who became more pro-refugee (while Democrats were confirmed in their already much more strongly positive views).
A nuanced piece about the Tebbit test 30 years later. I had a problem with the test, because I passed it, before being put out by how he made it a political question & a test of integration in that way.
Weekly Covid attitudes memo, no 40.
- Growing concern overNHS pressures, confidence rising in vaccine rollout. .
- Self-reported compliance is up, but age-gap reopening
- British public welcomedBiden’s inauguration, mainly due to departure of Trump. britishfuture.org/wp-content/upl…
By 60% to 35%, the public remain confident about the NHS coping, but by the narrowest margin since back at the start
The 35% who are not confident about the NHS coping is highest (41%) in London. (This is from Ipsos-Mori tracking) ipsos.com/sites/default/…