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Attain_by_suprise

First and foremost i have to say how disgraceful it is to see people try insinuate a racist remark to cause trouble. I am what the PC brigade consider 'dual heritage' and it !!!!es me off. I am not dual heritage, i am british born and bred. I have served queen and country and i am as patriotic as you can be but because my grandfather who came to this country in 1946 was from jamaica, i get stuck with a label of 'dual heritage'

My grandad married a white british woman and my mum married a white british man. My mum, dad and granny are all british but because my grandad is jamaican that means i get called dual heritage and that is something i consider to be racist as i'm british through and through and giving me a label of dual heritage is insulting. I am mixed race because i have some jamaican blood in me. Jamaica is not my heritage, i've never even been there. British is what i am and i'm bloody proud to be british

j.e.j.

The trouble with using the term 'heritage' is 1) it sounds so stilted, and 2) it only really works if there's a 50-50 split ie. one parent of one race and the other parent of another race.

What happens if someone from China marries a Welshman, lives in the UK and their son then has a child with a woman from Trinidad.. What's the child? Tri-racial?? Triple heritage :rotfl:

'Mixed race' works much better, imo.

jaylee3

j.e.j. wrote: »

rotfl, dual heritage :rotfl::rotfl: is that the latest in-word now?

It used to be half-caste then that was replaced with mixed race (I tend to use the latter)

heritage sounds like a National Trust building

Attain_by_suprise wrote: »

First and foremost i have to say how disgraceful it is to see people try insinuate a racist remark to cause trouble. I am what the PC brigade consider 'dual heritage' and it !!!!es me off. I am not dual heritage, i am british born and bred. I have served queen and country and i am as patriotic as you can be but because my grandfather who came to this country in 1946 was from jamaica, i get stuck with a label of 'dual heritage'

My grandad married a white british woman and my mum married a white british man. My mum, dad and granny are all british but because my grandad is jamaican that means i get called dual heritage and that is something i consider to be racist as i'm british through and through and giving me a label of dual heritage is insulting. I am mixed race because i have some jamaican blood in me. Jamaica is not my heritage, i've never even been there. British is what i am and i'm bloody proud to be british

Why don't you tell us though, how you feel when someone says THAT expression that 'j.e.j' said?' The one I have bolded. (I won't use that offensive phrase myself as I have more respect for people, than to use an antiquated and offensive phrase like that.)

THAT is what this is about. THAT saying.

I am sure you will back up 'j.e.j' though, and conveniently say that this particular expression is all fine and dandy, and not in the least bit offensive to you.

j.e.j.

jaylee3 I think you need to stop stamping your feet and reading too much into things.

dancingfairy

Back to the original topic....
It reminded me of this petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/playmobil-please-make-disability-toys-and-help-generations-of-kids-grow-up-with-a-positive-attitude-to-human-difference
and the great news that Playmobil have decided to introduce people with disabilities into their playsets.
df

Attain_by_suprise

jaylee3 wrote: »

Why don't you tell us though, how you feel when someone says THAT expression that 'j.e.j' said?' The one I have bolded. (I won't use that offensive phrase myself as I have more respect for people, than to use an antiquated and offensive phrase like that.)

THAT is what this is about. THAT saying.

I am sure you will back up 'j.e.j' though, and conveniently say that this particular expression is all fine and dandy, and not in the least bit offensive to you.

Do you know what really is offensive?

When people like you decide to tell someone who isn't white what we should be deeming as offensive because of the colour of our skin. I do not care for the term half caste and it does not bother me or anyone i know in the slightest. The only real racist terms are those that stereotype or the N bomb.

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