tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post3298229400285958390..comments2024-03-29T14:09:59.032+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: EthnicityYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54347011268855643312014-08-28T22:25:35.680+01:002014-08-28T22:25:35.680+01:00Trendy middle class white executives think by putt...Trendy middle class white executives think by putting brown faces on TV, we will forget thst the world is predominantly prejudiced to people who look different to them.<br /><br />It serves the purpose of a manner of corruption from top to bottom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-36511368009680006772014-08-26T13:25:18.449+01:002014-08-26T13:25:18.449+01:00It is no surprise to me that you have Scottish-Iri...It is no surprise to me that you have Scottish-Irish heritage - like a fiery Celtic warrior! Thank you for your first paragraph Lee. Much appreciated.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-75503969060763741202014-08-26T02:09:41.083+01:002014-08-26T02:09:41.083+01:00Well said; well written, Yorky. No smoke was comi...Well said; well written, Yorky. No smoke was coming out of my ears; only a smile spread across my face...because you were saying it as it is...and I guess my smile was because I agree with you, and probably couldn't have put it better.<br /><br />When I was going to school way back before twerking was invented, at our school there was one boy of indigenous heritage ..aka Aboriginal...if I'm permitted not to be politically-correct. There was one Aussie-Chinese family who ran a little greengrocery-come-mixed business in the main street of town (they cooked their own roasted and boiled peanuts - and they were great!); along with a couple of Greek families who owned and operated the fish & chip shops and a couple of cafes. The majority of the rest of the town's population was of Scottish-Irish heritage (I'm part of that mob), English, and Welsh and that was about it. There was one family we referred to as "White Russians"...they were from Latvia or somewhere similar. I remember well when an English family named "Sexton" arrived straight from "Old Blighty" - they moved into a block of flats behind where we lived and came to our school. They were quite the novelty, at the time. Note...I was raised in a country/regional town...not the city.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-63739721072124507762014-08-26T00:40:02.713+01:002014-08-26T00:40:02.713+01:00Dear Marmaduke,
Your journey so far has been very ...Dear Marmaduke,<br />Your journey so far has been very different from mine. You have obviously had to ask these questions as a matter of some urgency because they were right in your face. Assimilation versus Diversity - it's a contest in which it is rather hard to know who you should be supporting though instinctively I veer towards the unity that assimilation ought to bring.<br />Best wishes,<br />Neil (YP)Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-53996519447292099242014-08-25T20:56:50.246+01:002014-08-25T20:56:50.246+01:00The " special" corners of new immigratio...The " special" corners of new immigration are the ones I find most interesting. The polish, the Roma .......etcJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-32572117228513826572014-08-25T19:26:09.554+01:002014-08-25T19:26:09.554+01:00I like the idea of Little Librarian-in-the-Making....I like the idea of Little Librarian-in-the-Making. Probably a bit like Little Red Riding Hood. I can take the part of The Big Bad Wolf! The language issue also has echoes in England where non-English speaking citizens can have interpreters provided at say hospital or legal appointments. And who pays for these interpreters? Why the British taxpayer - that's who! Crazy!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-79927706593023548802014-08-25T19:21:35.838+01:002014-08-25T19:21:35.838+01:00"Not all are considered regular breeders"..."Not all are considered regular breeders" - I think that this applies to male citizens of County Durham as well as the birds.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-77249410627111243892014-08-25T19:16:45.262+01:002014-08-25T19:16:45.262+01:00Marmaduke, I like the ring to that one ha ha .. so...Marmaduke, I like the ring to that one ha ha .. sorry to say it is far more ordinary than that, M for Michael. <br />Still dazed and confused by the whole diversity thing. I know that western culture and youth in particular, have always, struggled with a sense of identity. So they festoon themselves in labels, afro-am, asian-am, gay- bla bla bla in a vain effort to make up for their self perceived shortcomings. I am told that Facebook now has 60 some options on sexual orientation, can you imagine? Call me silly but I never new there were that many possibilities. On the census forms, on the race line, I always filled in Martian just to keep them guessing. But I ask, why must we divide and tribalize ourselves by prepositions and superficial attributes that we were always taught should not matter? As the product of German and Dutch parents and the token Heinz-57-varieties-poor-white-trash-boy in a sea of "cafe-con-leche" in my native Venezuela, I sought to assimilate and minimize the target I presented. Kids can be cruel you know. Then later as an immigrant to the US, assimilation was again a means to an end. The "united" in both UK and US seems far less so today than it ever was with all the prepositions seeking to separate and divide in the name of diversity. Just my never-to-be-humble opinion. <br />I am Michael, with no prepositionsMike Silviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406468736304441962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-67363459490423126662014-08-25T18:08:20.852+01:002014-08-25T18:08:20.852+01:00Back in elementary school, this little Librarian-i...Back in elementary school, this little Librarian-in-the-making was a minority at school in that she was one of the few kids wearing specs. She was almost part of a minority in terms of nationality, too, because in this class at a German school in a German town nearly half of the pupils were not German. They came from Turkey, Spain, Italy, Greece and Jugoslavia, and strangely enough, most of them were boys with only one Italian girl among them.<br />Somehow, there never seemed to be a language problem; nowadays, I often read that many children "with an immigration background" (as the politically correct expression seems to be) don't speak enough German to follow lessons without much trouble. I can not remember one single incident when one of my non-German classmates wasn't able to understand what was being said, or couldn't make himself understood.<br />I wonder what has changed since then, apart from me being 40 years older.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-39728505423697455712014-08-25T17:03:38.064+01:002014-08-25T17:03:38.064+01:00Multiracial ads make total sense in California whe...Multiracial ads make total sense in California where there are not only an assortment of races, but also a wide assortment of multiracial children. I call them the "Beige" kids. You can scarcely ever tell who their parents are, and as a group I find them beautiful. We have three in our family so far. The only people I personally have a problem with are the ones whose women cover themselves from head to toe and walk 3 steps behind some strutting, arrogant asshole. That's a cultural thing, not a racial thing, and I admit to being intolerant, even though I've observed the practice doesn't last into the next generation here.<br />Jan Blawathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06697621979002856884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-71227129694110010022014-08-25T16:58:12.821+01:002014-08-25T16:58:12.821+01:00I decided to look up the cultural diversity in my ...I decided to look up the cultural diversity in my county of Durham. Whilst I was browsing the statistics for the county I came upon this: <br /><br />'152 species of birds are recorded as breeding, however not all are considered regular breeders.'<br /><br />I know it has nothing to do with the subject in hand but I'm not sure I know what it says about Co Durham.<br />KitKatCothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03599374086633244037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-68422516935052778772014-08-25T16:50:37.403+01:002014-08-25T16:50:37.403+01:00As my post suggests, champions of diversity are ig...As my post suggests, champions of diversity are ignoring the arithmetic. Thanks for dropping by M. Silvius! I wonder what the M stands for. Maurice? Mickey? Marmaduke? Max? Milton? Anyway - hello sir!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-9142458025363910982014-08-25T16:44:32.150+01:002014-08-25T16:44:32.150+01:00I have no issue with multicultural life Carol. Bri...I have no issue with multicultural life Carol. Britain has benefited greatly from the presence of other races in our midst. What I am bothered about is representation - it should in my view be guided by numbers - not by devious manipulation of the truth for political or commercial purposes.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-24254314082526642942014-08-25T14:59:03.409+01:002014-08-25T14:59:03.409+01:00I personally don't have an issue with it. I d...I personally don't have an issue with it. I don't think it is done in the name of diversity or percentages but rather inclusive language and pictorial representation. In my small school community of some 1500 students and 200 staff, we are represented by many nations and races. It is a joy to work in and I couldn't ask to work in a more multicultural workplace.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592150238891296272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-81857675872905688242014-08-25T14:42:12.016+01:002014-08-25T14:42:12.016+01:00That was meant to read DIVERSITY.That was meant to read DIVERSITY.Mike Silviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406468736304441962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-58744732136277529202014-08-25T14:41:19.848+01:002014-08-25T14:41:19.848+01:00DIVERSISTY comes from the root word DIVISION as in...DIVERSISTY comes from the root word DIVISION as in; to divide, split asunder, separate and apart. I fail to understand why people are so hell bent on promoting it thinking that it some how will bring about unity and cohesiveness. Mike Silviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406468736304441962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-12734063708732343392014-08-25T13:57:32.938+01:002014-08-25T13:57:32.938+01:00Thanks for this and thanks also for appreciating t...Thanks for this and thanks also for appreciating the central point I was seeking to make. Diversity - good name for a boy band methinks.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-2767103628839127152014-08-25T13:54:34.576+01:002014-08-25T13:54:34.576+01:00Thank you for the correction Mr B. How do you get ...Thank you for the correction Mr B. How do you get your conical KKK headgear in your closet - or do you keep it in the garage?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-53844852710498581442014-08-25T13:36:17.585+01:002014-08-25T13:36:17.585+01:00By the way, it's Ku Klux Klan, not Ku Klux Cla...By the way, it's Ku Klux Klan, not Ku Klux Clan....rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-5353798697168589322014-08-25T13:34:40.191+01:002014-08-25T13:34:40.191+01:00The latest figures I have been able to find for th...The latest figures I have been able to find for the U.S.A (based on the Census Bureau’s March 2012 and 2013 Current Population Surveys ) are as follows: <br /><br />The U.S. is 63% white, 12% black, 17% Hispanic, and 8% "Other" (which includes Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, American Indians, Aleutians, Eskimos and persons of "Two or More Races").<br /><br />The population is not distributed evenly, of course. My own Georgia is currently 56% white, 30% black, 8% Hispanic, and 6% Other, while New Mexico (for example) is 42% white, 1% black, 45% Hispanic, and 12% Other. <br /><br />The states in the U.S. most resembling what used to be called "the Mother Country" are Montana (89,NSD,3,8), New Hampshire (93,1,3,4), West Virginia (93,3,1,3), Vermont (94,1,1,4), and Maine (95,1,1,3).<br /><br />I think NSD means "no significant data" or "no separate data" -- but what do I know?<br /><br />Here's a link to <a href="http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-raceethnicity/" rel="nofollow">the complete table.</a> <br /><br />But, yes, the name of the game in the media and among all politically-correct folk these days is definitely DIVERSITY.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.com