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In reply to the discussion: When Meghan weds Harry, Britains relationship with race will change for ever [View all]Egnever
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When Meghan weds Harry, Britains relationship with race will change for ever [View all]
Soph0571
Nov 2017
OP
Disagree...the UK already has one the highest populations of bi-racial and interracial marriages..
HipChick
Nov 2017
#1
The British monarchy has never had a biracial marriage. This will be a sea change. n/t
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#7
I'm not impressed...Harry is an unemployed, uneducated racist lazy spoiled playboy
adigal
Nov 2017
#23
I spent a summer that, that's all. But it was enough to know that they have racists, too. n/t
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#20
"Theresa May vows to tackle racism after a report reveals shocking extent of discrimination."
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#24
Many do refer to Indians as blacks. Now I wonder whether you really did live there. That's a tell.
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#40
Who are "Many"? I suggest you stop googling, and ask a British born Indian person
HipChick
Nov 2017
#41
People of Indian descent don't call THEMSELVES that. But WHITE British people sometimes do,
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#42
You're changing the goalposts now. I never said the majority of British people would do that.
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#49
British people of Indian descent aren't "Anglo-British." Anglo-Saxons are Anglo-British.
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#64
I believe the choice to include people of broadly Indian descent among the group "blacks"
Denzil_DC
Nov 2017
#48
Thanks for the confirmation Denzil_DC...Certainly not used as an everyday usage
HipChick
Nov 2017
#52
@cwydro I know of what you speak...It took me years to train both my parents out of it..
HipChick
Nov 2017
#83
Still googling? No substitue for living there...guess you missed the whole British riots
HipChick
Nov 2017
#44
Can't you read? I explicitly said several times that people of Indian descent in Britain
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#65
A couple years ago I thought Americans were less racist than I've learned they are.
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#66
The "custom" of fair skinned northern Italians calling those in the south "blacks"
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#67
Harry's used to it, but I sure hope Meghan & family can withstand the glaring media spotlight, and..
Tarheel_Dem
Nov 2017
#19
As we devolve into a world ruled by a few oligarchs, and the subsequent obscene income inequality
jalan48
Nov 2017
#46
High-ranking British men have been having relationships with dark-skinned women for centuries
FarCenter
Nov 2017
#47
Prince Charles had a fling with Sheila Ferguson, singer of the group The Three Degrees
HipChick
Nov 2017
#62
That's been happening with UK newspaper comments sections for much more than a decade.
Denzil_DC
Nov 2017
#74