supposely a series of programmes about white working class identity. saw the advert for it last night and i found it a bit worrying. its a white guy getting his face written on in non english languages in black marker until hes written on so much that his face turns black, at which point the tagline comes up - it was something like 'has white working class identity dissapeared'. the implication of course being that immigrants have 'ruined' traditional 'british identity' (as if trad brit identity wouldnt have changed without immigrants), replacing it with a foreign culture and burying all notions of englishness in the meantime, and sullying this country etc etc.
i dont have a prob with bbc2 doing something about working class white britain, its about time really, but from what safraz manzoor was saying on newsnight, this sounds like its just going to be sensationalistic and pandering to the prejudices of the majority - about how white britain is 'under threat' from ethnic immigrants, yet again. if thats true, it seems a bit irresponsible imo, even if it is just people being honest about how they see things. also likely to be one sided from the way its being advertised (although this might just be to lure viewers, and then give them a more balanced picture once they see it). but what about w/c white ppl who work side by side with black/asian ppl and dont think were just ruining everything? i hope theyll show some of that too.
should be interesting anyway. im definitely going to watch it. even if it will make my blood boil (hopefully it wont though)
heres the link -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/white/
i dont have a prob with bbc2 doing something about working class white britain, its about time really, but from what safraz manzoor was saying on newsnight, this sounds like its just going to be sensationalistic and pandering to the prejudices of the majority - about how white britain is 'under threat' from ethnic immigrants, yet again. if thats true, it seems a bit irresponsible imo, even if it is just people being honest about how they see things. also likely to be one sided from the way its being advertised (although this might just be to lure viewers, and then give them a more balanced picture once they see it). but what about w/c white ppl who work side by side with black/asian ppl and dont think were just ruining everything? i hope theyll show some of that too.
should be interesting anyway. im definitely going to watch it. even if it will make my blood boil (hopefully it wont though)
heres the link -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/white/