En studie fra den britiske regjeringen viser at 29 prosent av hvite briter mener de er ofre for rasefordommer, og at ansatte i Storbritannias offentlige tjenester diskriminerer dem til fordel for andre etniske grupper. 7 prosent hvite briter mener at de har blitt forbigått ved forfremmelser på grunn av hudfargen deres, hvilket er en økning fra 3 prosent siden 2003.
Studien viser også at andre etniske grupper som lever i Storbritannia føler seg mer knyttet til landet enn innfødte hvite briter.
Talsperson for de Konservative, Baroness Warsi, sier at det ikke er underlig at flere mennesker føler at rasismen øker når regjeringspartiet Labours multikulturelle industri evig og alltid snakker om hva som skiller i stedet for å konsentrere seg om det som forener.
Undersøkelsen fant også at hvite føler at de har mindre mulighet enn andre etniske grupper til å influere avgjørelser som angår landet som sådan eller deres lokale omgivelser. Samtidig mener mange at rasefordommer er i vekst, i sterk kontrast til andre etniske grupper.
29 prosent av hvite briter venter å bli behandlet verre enn andre grupper av minst 8 offentlige tjenester, som politi, fengselsmyndigheter, domstoler, påtalemyndigheter og av kommunale organisasjoner for offentlige boliger.
Tory MP Greg Hands, a member of the Commons Communities and Local Government select committee said: "It's a dangerous phenomenon if any part of the population feels they are being systematically discriminated against."
Overall 84 per cent of Britons said they felt they belonged strongly to the country. But while nine out of ten Pakistani or Indian people said they felt a strong sense of belonging only 84 per cent of whiles felt a similar affiliation.
The Telegraph: Whites fear discrimination by public services
Og hvorfor er noen overrasket over dette? Hele poenget med multikulturalismen er å trakassere hvite. At dette da blir det praktiske resultatet burde knapt forbause oss.
Etter litt leting fant jeg frem til undersøkelsen det refereres til. Det er kanskje verdt å nevne en del andre tall fra samme undersøkelse? Telegrahps dekning kan ikke akkurat sies å gå i dybden.
"In 2007-08, 82 per cent of people perceived their community as cohesive, agreeing that their local area is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together, an increase from 80 per cent in 2005".
"Perceptions of cohesion within individual age groups have risen in most cases (except age 50-64) since 2003 although these individual rises did not reach statistical significance. "
"Overall, 80 per cent of people mixed socially at least once a month with people from different ethnic or religious backgrounds, either at work, at a place of education, through a leisure activity, at a place of worship, at the shops or through volunteering."
"Less than 1 in 10 people (9%) say that racial or religious harassment is a problem in their local area, and most of these feel it is a fairly big problem (6%) rather than a very big problem (2%)".
"A higher proportion of people from minority ethnic groups (16%) think that racial or religious harassment is a problem compared with White people (7%)".
"Thirty four per cent of people from minority ethnic groups felt that they would be treated worse than other races by at least one of eight public service organisations, down from 38 per cent in 2001. Twenty-eight per cent of people from minority ethnic groups felt that they would be treated worse than other races by at least one of the five criminal justice system (CJS) organisations, also down from 2001 (33%)".
Kilde: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/863680.pdf
En interessant undersøkelse. Noen flere smakebiter:
"Young people are more likely than older people to mix with people from different ethnic and religious groups: 93 per cent of people aged 16 24 years had mixed in this way compared with 52 per cent of people aged 75 and over."
"Perceptions of cohesion are most positive among those aged 75 and over (91%) and least positive among those aged 16-24 years (76%)."
"The proportion of people saying racial or religious harassment is a problem (fairly or very big) is highest among young people (19% of 16-24 year olds) and lowest among older people (3% of 65-74 year olds and 2% of those aged 75 and over)."
"People from minority ethnic groups (32%) are less likely than White people (58%) to feel that there is now more racial prejudice in Britain compared with five years ago." Her er det også interessant å legge merke til at mens andelen fra 'minority ethnic groups' har ligget konstant på rundt 30% siden 2001, så har andelen av 'White people' steget markant fra 44% i 2001 til dagens 58%.