[HPforGrownups] Slightly OT- JRK and Ethnic Minorities in UK.

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 4082


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From: Heather Edmonds <Heather at hedmonds.fsnet.co.uk>

> Jinx wrote (paraphrased
> >The UK is 90% white.
>
> 90% white seems a little on the high side to me even as an average. Out of
> interset where did you obtain your stats. If they are accurate it would be
> very useful for my college work.

I remember hearing it mentioned while I was at college.
Also, I just found the following site with all sorts of useful stats on it.
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~errac/keyinf.htm

Total UK population = 54.8 million.
Ethnic minorities = just over 3 million

Pretty close, I'd say.  Although I believe those are from the last census in
1991, so they may be out of date.

> If Hogwarts is in the are of Scotland suggested it would be nearly 99%
> white, (Although as Hogwarts is boarding and pupils come from all over
this
> isn't relevent.) or possibly more. London, Bradford, Birmingham,
Mabchester
> etc however are at least 60:40 I should think if not 50:50. I also believe
> there is a large Asian community in Cardiff. Certainly the London inner
city
> nurseries and primary schools I am training in reflect this, indeed in the
> current placement there are more non-whites than whites. South West of
> Bristol you are looking at much lower figures.

In the inner cities it's obviously not anything like that high.  But in
rural areas you'd be hard pressed to find that many.  Even somewhere like
London, there'll be some areas with lots of non whites living there, and
some with virtually none.  90% white is an estimate, but it's probably not
that far off if you take the entire country into consideration.

Jinx