sillier and yet sillier

[Michael Rolls]

NI civil servants have been instructed not to use the term 'non-white' but use  'of an ethnic minority'

[Scrumpy]

Stupid..
In time they will ban all tanning shops ..
Nobody will be allowed to sunbathe and change skin colour..
They will come up with 'Mimicking others'

[Dextrous63]

NI civil servants have been instructed not to use the term 'non-white' but use  'of an ethnic minority'

Do civil servants in predominantly non-white countries avoid the term "white" when referring to a (white) ethnic minority?

If not, then whoever issued the instruction can go and shove it up his, cough, Arsenal.

[Mups]

Do civil servants in predominantly non-white countries avoid the term "white" when referring to a (white) ethnic minority?

If not, then whoever issued the instruction can go and shove it up his, cough, Arsenal.

Good question, Dex.

[klondike]

NI civil servants have been instructed not to use the term 'non-white' but use  'of an ethnic minority'

Won't be all that long before being white puts somebody in the ethnic minority category...

[Mups]

Won't be all that long before being white puts somebody in the ethnic minority category...

I agree,  and have thought this for a long time.  

[Dextrous63]

In the voice of a Cecil B DeMille's type movie in which God or a narrator may in a deep and meaningful voice) pronounce,...

So it Shall Come To Pass

[klondike]

Probably not in our lifetimes though depending where we live of course as there are many areas where it is true already.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14696127/changing-face-Britain-interactive-map-ethnic-makeup.html

[JBR]

Won't be all that long before being white puts somebody in the ethnic minority category...

I wonder whether, when the time comes, the government will admit to the existence of an ethnic majority in this country.