Okay so I work for a company of 140 ish personal, in Kent, it occurred to me the other day we have no-one of non anglo saxon origins, or european decsent, or of any disability, is that quite odd, anyone elses company similar to this.

Do you work for the BNP?

At the moment yes, but only 20 of us, in a traditionally white middle class profession in a fairly white city.

yes, but there are only 4 of us.

It happens. It’s only a problem if you have a tendency of not hiring people who don’t fit the profile you’ve described. If it genuinely happens naturally then there’s no problem. I worked at a defence contractor in the late 90s who were similarly staffed but I know for sure that it was nothing to do with discrimination, more to do with who applied.

In my location we’ve got –
Iranian 3
Iraqi 2
White Anglo 18
Chinese 5
Mauriation 1
Pakistani 1
Indian 2
Portugese 1
Greek 1
Italian 1
Irish 1

I don’t think that there’s anything unusual about that. Unless you’re working in a working class environment, in a major city, I’d say the chances are that you’ll be working amongst a pretty much exclusively white, English/Scottish/Welsh workforce – despite what the press tells us about immigration or multi culturalism or social mobility.
I live in Devon and the definition of a foreigner down here, is someone born outside of the county not the country. I know, I’ve been called one often enough.

and the flip side the fire service are “actively seeking” anyone who is not a white heterosexual male.

No. In fact if I think about the team I’m in, which has about 20 team members, I’d say 17 are ‘non anglo saxon origins, or european decsent, or of any disability’.

In my office we have:
Welsh (not Anglo Saxon)
Irish (or them)
Scottish (or them either)
German
Portugese
German Chinese
Hong Kong Chinese
South African
Polish
Turkish
Iraqi
American
Kiwi

and most difficult of all 41 of us: North Yorkshire

heresjonny out of that 140 there will be a few that are of Eastern European descent. Alot of people in the UK change their name to ‘assimilate’ better. I know a fair few who have done this.

aP and IanMunro – so if you go out somewhere to eat with your work mates where do you go to suit everyone?!

In my previous lab, we reach the point where for the majority of us, english wasn’t the first language.
3 french
1 from sri lanka
1 german
5 english, 2 of them being first generation immigrant (iran and india)
2 italian
1 american
1 austrian

I shall say that the ethnic minority in the chemical department was english white straight people.

I work in an office in Glasgow, there’s only 2 wasps here, but its all white faces.

In addition, how many Russian Jews are in that 140? (doesnt matter if they are non-practicing and you dont have to have a thick accent and wear traditional folk clothing to be spotted!).

(Post-war years a great deal of Polish, Russian and Hungarians migrated to the UK). Wiki will tell me all the facts rather than generalise 😉

Sib I don’t think they do, anything would be too expensive for the north Yorkshire’s people 😉

Do English working in Scotland count as multi ethnic?

All this assumes people are aware of their ethnic background. Go a few generations back and who really knows? (Cue someone telling us they can trace every ancestor back to blah blah..)

I can go for weeks without seeing anyone non white (Why do i get uncomfortable saying black).

For some unknown reason to me cumbria has a very low ethnic content.

If we do go out I’m one of the people who ends up paying, so basically if its my turn – where I want to go, but yes as juan picked up the north Yorkshire gent is the first with his nose in the trough and the last with his hand in his pocket.

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I was being sarcastic, as from experience, on here yorshire gents are considered tight by the STW massive
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