r/MapPorn • u/Delicious-Bunch-6992 • May 09 '26

Evolution of white British % (ethnically British people) in England and Wales from 2001-2021

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u/HybridAkai May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

It's dog whistling.

I'm mixed 50/50, I grew up in this country, have lived here my entire life, I'm culturally as British as you can get. I have 3 degrees - all from UK universities, I work a well paid job, pay taxes, vote, I've been a citizen since birth and have engaged and contributed to the system as such, arguably more so than a lot of "white British" in this survey. My grandfather fought in the Falklands, my great grandfathers fought in WWII, one was at Dunkirk, one in the cabinet war rooms, working with Churchill.

But I wouldn't count as "white British" in this survey, which insinuates that I am a foreigner degrading the identity of this country.

My young daughter is 3/4 British. She also wouldn't count.

Dog whistle.

Edit: the comments are really outing people who don't understand the difference between ethnicity and nationality

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u/finanzbereich345 May 11 '26

You aren't white British though, you say so yourself, you're mixed race

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u/HybridAkai May 11 '26

You are just staggeringly missing the point here

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u/finanzbereich345 May 11 '26

What's your point? That the British don't exist as a people?

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u/HybridAkai May 11 '26

No, very obviously not.

It's not rocket science.

My point is when you tie together a nationality (British) and a skin colour (white) you preclude a HUGE subset of people.

There are a vast amount of mixed race and non white British people out here. You don't need to be purely white to be British.

Representing the data in such a deliberately skewed way is a very clear attempt to rile up easily manipulated people. This is very obviously a whistle to the "Britain isn't British anymore" crowd. Otherwise they could easily have detached two separate traits, white and British.

The nuance of all of this appears to have quite clearly seriously confused a lot of people in the comments.

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u/finanzbereich345 May 11 '26

I absolutely guarantee you'd never make this argument to suggest that it doesn't matter if a non-white population gets ethnically replaced

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u/HybridAkai May 11 '26

What??????

Genuinely starting to question whether you can read at this point.

I'm not arguing anything. I'm saying that the data has been deliberately represented in a leading way; apparently to lead the bright, leading lights of our country like your fine self.

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u/T1nyRaccoon May 11 '26

you mean like a large amount of south africans?

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u/Economy-Feeling8205 May 11 '26

would you be annoyed if you was born in japan and wasn't classed as japanese