Page 8 - Anti-Racism Pocketbook for Schools and Academies
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• For sentencing, it was 13 per thousand population for
black people and five per thousand population for white
people
• 37.4% of black people and 44.8% of Asian people felt
unsafe being at home or around their local area,
compared with 29.2% of white people
Although these statistics determine that there is an issue of
racism, many people still debate the idea that racism is
ingrained and visibly apparent in UK society. In order to fully
understand the context and importance behind addressing
racism, there needs to be an understanding behind the
context and how it translates into modern society.
Understanding racial prejudice
Racism and racial prejudice is often shown through the
behaviour and attitudes that we express to others. With this
country’s history of slavery, colonialism, and the constant
marginalisation of ethnic people, these behaviours and
attitudes have unfortunately become severely ingrained into
the fabric of the UK society.
In our society, white is the default standard that we see.
Imagine you are walking through Primark because you need
to find a nude set of leggings or you are walking through the
pharmacy because you are looking for nude band aids to
cover scars, the immediate product that would be available
under the term ‘nude’ would be white. For a lot of ethnically
diverse people, it is frustrating that white is a default for
nude when it should be a universal description for all shades
of skin colours and people.
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