British countryside is a ‘racist colonial white space’, wildlife charities claim | LBC
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2024
- The British countryside is a "racist and colonial" white space and people of colour are often framed as "out of place", wildlife charities have said.
MPs were told this week that the countryside has been influenced by "racist colonial legacies", leading to an environment "dominated by white people".
Sangita Myska shares her own experience, detailing how her view of the countryside changed around the Brexit referendum.
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It's a 99% green space that is mostly colonised by grass.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm the only black person in my village. Some locals blatantly ignore me, but others will say hello. Some people have looked at me with confusion, some have asked me "Do you live round here?". One fella offered me a lift back to work, which I refused as I was on my lunch time walk; He said he thought I worked at the local hotel, I advised I'd lived in the village for 12 years and now work from home. My favourite was a taxi driver who couldn't accepted that I 'lived' in the village, in my house and was at great pains to correct me, asking if I meant I was staying in the hotel, followed by staying in a shared house. I didn't tip him.
In general while on my daily lunch time walks, I get strange looks from people (mainly old white people) driving through the village, but all in all, I don't feel unsafe in the countryside, I just see it as other people's lack of exposure/experience/ignorance. As my kids used to say "It's a them problem".
Could be worse, how do you think it would be for a black child growing up there trying to find work?
@@iaindcostathere are some young black people working in the hotel in our village. The only other employer is a garage, but I do see your point.
Personally, I believe exposing people to other cultures, helps them to understand, and emphasise with non-white people's experience. The more non-whites visit, and live in the previously traditionally white areas, the less unusual it becomes to see non-whites there.
@@marvinsamuels1237 Yes, racism is fuelled by ignorance, let's meet and talk together more, learn how to love each other, we a have a common ancestor more recently than most people like to admit!
@@Ardwick-Crome absolutely! And that’s why when I’ve told other non-whites where I live and they say “but that’s a white area”, I say “that’s no reason for me not to live there, I’m changing the demographics”.
You sound like a lovely person. They are lucky you live in their village :)
I'm a Yorkshireman who's lived in Nigeria for 25 years. I live out in the sticks and sometimes can go up to three months without seeing another white face. And yet in all that time, the number of occasions I've felt that fear you speak of, of being 'not in the right place' I can count on the fingers of one thumb. Puts Britain to shame.
My wife is Nigerian born naturalised British. During her naturalisation period she lived for a number of years with my mother in a village in rural North Yorkshire. Very white, very conservative. And yet she experienced no more racial threat there than I experience in Nigeria. Yet she did frequently encounter racial hostility. But it was typically within city environments, particularly when interacting with institutions that fail to control empowerment of those with racial prejudice. The immigration service is an obvious case in point but I'm afraid to say that the NHS is another. She's a strong woman and generally well able to defend herself, but in those two cases in particular, resolution of conflict required my involvement in a face to face confrontation and threats of legal action.
So no. Country folk may in some part be naive and easily swayed, but I cannot accept that they are fundamentally hostile in the way the reports you reference suggest. The real cancer in British society lies in the amoral monsters in the upper echelons of British institutions that seek to weaponise racial antagonism for their own personal gain. The Murdochs, Rothermeres, Rees-Moggs and Farages of this world. These are the targets to focus on and remove from their positions of pernicious influence.
😂 don't worry about the lack of likes here. As Pushkin said "people prefer comforting lies to difficult truths
@@geoffroberts1131 No worries. Just having a quiet rant.
As a mixed race woman who lives and grew up in Dorset (Poole/Bournemouth- and would say the noughties saw the main bulk of my childhood). I was subject to a lot of discrimination and bullying by other a handful of other children, some teachers/school staff etc and maybe the odd one or two random people. But, I mean, we know children can be foul little beasts, but as one of the ‘only ones’, I was painfully aware I was different and ‘less than’, and some people would never let me forget it, either…
But in general, I absolutely have to agree with you that it is certain powerful people in society that use race and nationality as a divider among the people so they fight each other rather than looking up and uniting as a class despite colour or creed.
@@TheDeeLarkin It's always difficult to see another's perspective from the 'other side of the fence'. But I feel for you.
I discovered long ago that learning to see beyond skin colour was an immensely liberating experience. It's a shame that so many deprive themselves of that liberty.
I am a black man and I go to the countryside if there is something that interests me. I am a Historian and there is a great deal to make a great holiday.
I think it was John Kennedy who said ppl should be judged by the quality of their character and not the colour of their skin,or words to that effect. How very true,we should all use that as our guide in looking at others.
@@beastieboy3926 It was Martin Luther King. But I agree with the sentiment.
Do you find hostility? I was born in the middle of nowhere,lived rural all my life...not once has the colour of skin altered my,or my mates opinion of a person..be decent and you'll be treat decently...if you want rude folk,visit London...I hated the place.
@@deanj846 True, I find hostility in London nowadays, but not from the few white indigenous Londoners.
@@deanj846 I get some looks, but they don't dare tempt fate😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have met, and talked with black people who have been to Mexico, Russia, Estonia, Japan., and they are treated with respect and have have had a reasonable to a great time.
If there is something that intrigues you, just go😃!!
My mate who looks like Charles Brunson, the hardest man in the UK moved to a seaside town and they hate him because he’s from London and not the village. I’m worried that they’re going to trap him in a giant Wicker Man and set it alight this summer! 😂
... from London ... say no more. They're weird. 😂
lol
Not surprised, Londoners don't realise they don't own the village that they have moved to.
Also, why do they also always start with, "We were bombed out of the East End"?
There must have been skyscrapers horizon to to horizon in 1940 with the number of "Bombed out of the East End" Londoner's that are in Suffolk".
We have enough with Americans.
😂
At least get the name right.
''It is easy to be civilised with ones own kind, but the true test of being civilised is in treating all people as equals, regardless of their colour, culture or creed''
Well said.👏👏👏👏
If you think all ppl are equals for just being hunan beings you are very naive.
I love your quote. Thank You for Being
@@beastieboy3926 You say this when user name refers to a band who's members all converted to Buddhism and as such believe all life is equal and of value. Talk about naive.
The problem is, some cultures are just not civilized to the ways of British culture. The message from ALL governments to immigrants should be; Integrate or leave.
I'm the exact opposite. As a white countryside boy, I feel most unsafe in the city at night. I think it's more about being out of your comfort zone than anything else.
People's fears are being exploited and mistrust among many is growing. There's a housing crisis, existential concerns and no confidence in the immediate future for Great Britain. All of us are being forced to redraw lines and to commit to ideologies that are not of our own making.
These are incredibly tough times for all of us in the UK and constant fear and worry distort our sense of reality. It feels like an unseen enemy is pitting us all against each other whilst sitting back and enjoying the mayhem.
If there were no people in the UK but the indigenous Brits the powers that be would still find a way to pit us against ourselves and again we'd be forced to ally ourselves to one ideology or another. Dark manipulative times indeed for all of us, irrespective of our beliefs.
They are anyway, don't you remember the "disabled can work from home or loose benefits" idea?
Excellent comment
Become and Ethno Nationalist and take back your country a certain painter tried to warn you that this would happen now look at the streets of your big cities they are disgusting. You are being ivaded
People need to wake up. The Tory's are choosing to stoke division knowingly. This policy just helps maintain inequality.
@@jamesfarrar4274 "Lose" not "Loose"
On a Turkish holiday we had to have armed guards with us on countryside walk... that was unexpected and scary.
Our bus wes held up on the way to the resort. British countryside couldn't be more tame.
Apart from the mysterious black cats. An American a couple of years back actually had a run in with one. Though I think they both got a fright and ran away.
A couple of years back we went up the Malvern hills. There were two older Muslim gentlemen up there having a nice walk. An older woman turned round turned to the group she was in and within ear shot of them turned round to the group she was in and said "You can't escape them anywhere." It was so sad, two people who were just having a nice day had to have their experience over shadowed by a bigot. The worse thing is it will outlast that day, they'll always live under that shadow to some extent.
The woman should've been called out. Half of the problem is people don't get called out, shamed for it and asked to apologise.
@@cheesuscrisp-cd7js
Get off the Island. English, Welsh and Scots are different cultures and ethnicity. Hence multicultural.
True, they are everywhere, except where I work, my boss won't employ them 🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣🇬🇧
"As in the days of Noah" them ppl are in the right place until they be begging the mountains to fall on them whence they came from when they see the ancient of days on his throne with white wolly hair. Not no goat hair, not no horse hair but hair like wool..not long now😊👊🏿🙏🏾🛡🕎⚔️
I don’t believe that did actually happen
I hate the term 'colonial space' it's nonsense. How can it be colonial if the people who live there are native to the area.
I was wondering the same thing. It seems like hatred of white people to me. People seem to think that white people don't belong anywhere.
We’re being divided and conquered.
100% we are weaker when we're divided.
@leetaylor5403 50% you mean?
@@supertouring22 🤔
These lefties love to do this about things that aren’t there mostly on LBC
If your not from the village, it's like Hot Fuzz
BS.
My parents moved to a village 40 years ago. Half the village had one of 4 surnames (I may exagerate, but not much). It took them only about 5 years to become fully accepted within village society.
There again, they're white and middle class.
The Indian family that bought up the (closing down) pub have had the pub for more than 20 years... They're not even remotely accepted.
Do you live wher3 I live 😂 it honestly is like that where I live to
*you're
@@davidcolin6519If they’re not even remotely accepted, I presume that the pub has closed down for lack of custom
@@rafd3593 Nope. The Indian restaurant is a great success, but the owners and workers are completely ostracised outside of that specific locale.
That's how these things work, as is evidenced by the fact that the place has stayed open for the 20 years that I had already pointed out.
Maybe you should try to read what is in a comment rather than trying to find fault with logic.
It is entirely logical that a restaurant can thrive, yet the owners and workers in the same restaurant not be welcomed in the community.
Not difficult, huh?
As someone who's brown coloured, I honestly don't see this as an issue. Rural areas are generally white areas because there isn't much opportunity compared to the cities. And tbh maybe since 9/11 or 7/7 I've received hate from others for my race and faith. I dont know if Sangita will ever read this, but no matter how white we sound, no matter how much we love britain and British culture, no matter how much we try and integrate, no matter how much we contribute to taxes, we will always be told to f**k off back home even though I was born in this land. To feel like you dont belong in the land your born in is a terrible feeling...
That is horrible. I've traced my family back to 1570 and all I can say as just one voice is that you are as British as I am.
Same. I am an Iraq Veteran. I fought for these people and gave friends and blood.
@@tryingmybest9819thank you it's kind to hear but actions speak louder than words and since Brexit it's seemed that racism is happening more. I'm from the very town which the EDL was born, and I've seen and experienced violence from that horrible group, so it's very difficult to associate yourself to a country that doesn't want you
Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder.
Oh dear I feel so sorry for you. Now imagine being a native Englishman and being told you have no right to your homeland.. the one were your grandparents and great grandparents fought and maybe died for defending from foreigners moving in and taking over.. the one were your family have been for a 1000 years or more.
As the old saying goes, a dog born in a stables isn't a horse.
these are people who would find racism in a sandwich
Time she looked into White flight and why its on going
This wasn't racism, but it happened to my wife in Christchurch, Dorset, about five years ago. She has a medical condition and needed to access a toilet. She went to the loo in a nearby pub. Whilst in the cubicle, a woman knocked on the door and asked whether she'd be much longer. My wife ignored this. Eventually, she left the toilet and returned to the bar. As she did so, the woman serving behind the bar made some disgusting remarks about an awful smell. This was echoed by two or three of the customers around the bar. My wife fled from the building in tears. She prevented me from going in there to confront these disgusting cowards as I was so livid that I would not have been responsible for my actions.
Yes queen
Sir, your lividness has no bearing on your responsibility for your actions. Whilst this particular incidence at face value, does sound upsetting, words and opinions must not merit violence, as you seem to imply. Having said that I sincerely wish your wife has recovered from said ordeal.
But what made the smell. People are trying to sup ale after a day mucking out😊😊😊😊
That’s Why l’d rather wait till l get home for a p oo
Simply tell them you have a problem, People then understand
I'm a Black truck driver, I went to Bournemouth, made my delivery and went for a walk, and straight away I felt the only way I can describe the feeling as toxic and the staring was amazing, now I know how my parents who came here in the Windrush felt when they first came here, and you are right before 2016, it wasn't that bad, I sat for bit and started talking to the guy who was waiting for his Mrs, he said he used to live in London and moved up here, then I said I was born in London 1958 so we were the same age, his wife came along he said why don't you come up here and live just as he said it she kicked him, I saw the kick, that opened my eyes, I said to myself that's the system we live in right there, he was ok but I thought as a collective these people are bad for my health. I agree with you 100%. 👍🏿
You can't blame 'how you feel' on other people. That's down to you.
Maybe you have a bit of prejudice going on yourself?
I'm pretty sure the people of Bournemouth have seen plenty of black people before.
Bournemouth isn't the countryside its a major town full of Londoners
A truck driver? Bournemouth is south of London.
Three rissole comments to your post, atom.
I left the UK in 1986 because of this sort of mentality. Better to be an immigrant in France than live on Prison Island 🏝️🇬🇧.
@@apemoon1731 Why the staring, though? What's that all about? It's needless and ignorant.
I lived in a village where we had a Turkish barber for a year. Unfortunately, nobody ever visited his shop. Eventually, he left. However, a new barber, who was British, arrived and his shop was always busy with customers every day.
Did you compare prices.
@@proudman6598 that must be it of course.....
@@nedchil66Exactly. I live near Green Lanes London where there are plenty of Turkish 'barber' shops. Always empty and no customers. They're just a front.
I live in a small town. I am happy to report that our Kurdish barber is very busy, and friendly, and funny, and popular in part because there is a parrot cage in the shop. The parrot comes out and chats. Kids adore it.
@@hakanozaslan9571 Actually it probably is, theres a turkish guy by me who charges about a fiver more for the privilege to be asked if I want my eyebrows shaved, meanwhile the English guy who's been there for years charges less, is quciker and doesn't leave me smelling like a perfume shop . Nothing to do with racism it's to do with who offers the better service for your money.
What absolute utter tosh.
Why?
18.1 million visitors come to the Lake District each year from all over the world
And?
This is LBC, they love stiring up race arguments.
@@digbycrankshaft7572Well it hasn't put them off, has it !
Ive been to the Lake District many times with my Indian girlfriend and our son. We have never had any issues of racism whilst there and have always been made to feel welcome.
This isn t about tourism, they want to 'enrich' areas like the Lake District and drive locals out.
I wonder if people go to Jamaica and say it’s too black not enough white peoples
I am moving my African girlfriend to littleborough in greater Manchester. Someone said to me "why cant you marry a white girl it would be less awkward". I worry about bringing her but because of the new law where you must earn 37,000 to have a foreign partner in uk from April i had to rush it. (edit) the next villages like todmorden and hebden bridge are nicer and more tolerant generally.
Todmorden and Hebden have been very welcoming to us when we're out with my disabled son.
Shopkeepers make space for him to sit while I browse, and talk to him, not about him.
Shout out to Lyalls bookshop in Tod, and 2Tone Comics in Hebden, who make the day better.
It should be fine uk is a fine country like anywhere there are bad apples even in politics like Nigel F. All the best 🙏. Am an Asian guy born n bred. I grew up in the Isle of Man back in the 70s when you hardly saw any black or Asian families...now it's different there Totally
I had an African girlfriend about 15 years ago and lived with her in Ripon. The Home Office like to make it as difficult as possible to do things properly, via the visa system. To get the lady in to my own country I had to enlist the services of a Nigerian born immigration solicitor in Bradford, who wanted payment only in cash.
You couldn't make it up 😂
What on earth did you say to that buffoon?
My response would have been, “because she’s the person I fell in love with, not that it should be your or anyone else’s business.”
@@naturalhometreatments724 Ye it was much better in the 70s
I feel the Indian countryside is deeply anti-semitic.
It's sad to read such stories. For balance. I spent an entire summer in the English countryside with almost all white folk and they were all very charming.
Countryside is beautiful in UK.
Not for long
It's not the countryside that's the problem, it's the people who live there
@@boogaloo4640They aren't a problem either.
@@boogaloo4640 And who exactly are you to be saying that?
@@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533 For anyone not from there many of them are.
I honestly don’t see the point of such videos. People who live in countryside are always hostile to outsiders and foreigners in every country. I’m from Pakistan and Pakistani villagers don’t want me in their village either. Some people just have a problem of looking for racism everywhere.
Not in india i found the locals very freindly & hospitable, in fact the poorest of them were the most generous & hospitable.
I am fortunate enough to live in a sparsely populated area in the far north of Scotland. The most irritating thing for me, and for many of my neighbours, are incomers who want to change what we have, and enjoy, to what they fled their earlier homes for. Okay our nearest KFC or M&S is three hours away but we can do without them. Our neighbours are from a wide variety of backgrounds and there are different nationalities but we all get along just fine because of our unique environment.
It reminds me of a story I heard when i was staying in France: townies who hadmoved to the countryside were suing one of their farming neighbours...because his cockerel was waking them. Cockerels will "sing" at dawn, which is very early in the summer. The judge ruled that this was the countryside and there are farms and poultry, but asked the farmer if he could move the chicken coop. Apparently the farmer said he would, if the townies shared the costs. I do not know how it ended.
Blimey! Tell me you have a John Lewis or Waitrose. How do you cope without a Marks & Sparks? Absolute bedlam...This may be where class supercedes race!!!
sounds idyllic
@barbarajackson-shennan8028 John Lewis! Waitrose! Yeuch! We can get all we need from our local farmers, cheaper too! If push comes to shove, we can always use Amazon.
I have to dare myself to travel throughout the uk countryside as a black woman, because I know there are parts of the uk that really really have a disdain for anything not white. I really want to be proven wrong.
I want to explain to you why you are wrong. I'm white, European, but not English.
I've been physically attacked for not speaking English...
You don't have to be just white, you have to be white and English!
Just grow up and do what you want to do.
Double dare you…
Sorry you feel like that. I think some parts of the countside have issues with people from 'outside' regardless of colour. Experience of disrespectful visitors to what is their home hasnt helped that.
It was the 80's when the first non- white moved into the village, the family were welcomed and part of the community but without doubt, as with everywhere, there would have been some unkind. They would have been firmly told to keep it to themselves. This is Wales mind so anyone is welcome ... apart from the overlord Elglish (button it Saes, it's tongue in cheek).
Come to Scotland and enjoy the hiking and camping 💪
I’m confused; did something actually happen to the presenter or did she have a feeling that maybe it could and that will do as a concrete example of racism in the countryside?
Shes married to a white guy and has spoken a few times of the racism she has endured.She was even told that she was not English on the same show on LBC, It brought her to tears live on air. Personally as a Black person I thought dont be so pathetic and naive!
There's only one ideology in this culture and its called Narcissism...With it comes this and everything else.
England's countryside must be only,Scotlands is free to roam.
So you thought you'd be physically attacked but you were or weren't? I feel the same when I have to consider going into London.
Do the presenters on LBC always need to take big gulps and sighs to keep their jobs or what?
Yes
She always does it for dramatic effect
Lived in Cornwall all my life, we generally distrust all incomers. Londoners have brought Up all the local housing, houses sold by the local lord to pay death duties get brought Up by the comparatively rich and the locals have to move out. Move in and support the community and you will be loved otherwise, stick to the South East.
I usually go once a year to cornwall. Sounds like you had abit rougher than usual during covid because you had to deal with all the snobs and toffs that would normally go abroad. Atleast going by what some of the locals told my family.
Same in West Yorkshire some small villages you seldom hear a Yorkshire accent and the house princess are well up
..so what you are objecting to is money..?
Tribalism gets us nowhere in a positive sum game
I was born and grew up in London, but I can't afford to live there, and I have to compete with the brightest and best from all over the world. I have the right to be in Cornwall just as much as any other part of the country.
I hardly ever see a Londoner in London, where are we supposed to go?
There are people from every part of the world competing for work, housing, education, even places to sleep and beg on the streets!
I live in a village in the countryside in Yorkshire, and I can confirm that racism and bigotry are alive and well here.
I live in leeds it is here too theres no diversity in any corner shops or takeaways
@gdwxy you are clearly being sarcastic. Leeds is not a village and is, in fact, a wonderful city.
People here in an actual village are so confident in their racism and bigotry that they have no problem saying it out loud.
Ireland want their Country back😊👊🏿
@@sarahjaneross2918Can I use the term:- Troglodyte then?😊 Cheers.
I suspect you could say the same of Tower Hamlets and Sparkbrook in Birmingham etc. etc.
UK is white naturally, like india is brown mostly. So what its natural nothing wrong with white England, just so its not exclusive but its open for all Brits. UK BROWN NHS Dr 27M North East
...really trying hard for that visa I see. Keep it up... coconut.
@@Total_Entropy36 british born mate
I love the countryside. I'm not white. I enjoy seeing peoples outlandish reactions to someone with brown skin, when I tell them I'm mostly Celtic ethnically it really throws them off 😂
lol
How are you "not white" if you're mostly Celtic?
Having brown skin or a tan doesn't mean you're a different "race."
Haw can we colonise a space built by our ancestors who have been here for centuries millenia evan?
You are colonisers by nature, it is in your blood.
I'm white and i feel out of place in my local town centre, and most cities.
why?
@@annepoitrineau5650 because most people there are foreign and brown.
I feared you might reply that. Scoop: whether British or not, white or not, they are human beings, they have the same aspirations as you. They want to work, go about thet r business, be with their friends and families. Danger comes when opportunities are so scarce that people must resort to alternative means to survive (alternative=maybe not legal) but this would happen to white people too. The difference being that there are fewer opportunities for non-white, sometimes.@@chesterdonnelly1212
Feeling unsafe in the countryside is not backed up by the crime figures in any metric .( unless it’s poachers your scared of ) .
It's just a race grift against white people.
But it is backed up by the practical experiences of many people, especially people of color, who go to the countryside or any other place with lots of politically conservative residents. Just because someone isn't physically assaulted doesn't mean the mistrust and even hate of their presence doesn't exist.
@@DennisMoore664 what a nasty position to take ,Why would you relate racism to political conservatism .When history shows that the most evil and lethal racism has come from national and international socialists .
Where is the current anti white racism coming from .oh the left as usual. Just because someone says they feel something doesn’t make it real .I live in the countryside and am not seeing any mistrust and hatred coming from my community . Except the stuff you are inventing to suit your political bias .
@@DennisMoore664 what is it you expect ? flower parades for tourists ? worshipping like gods ??? you appear to know peoples thoughts and politics
@@DennisMoore664 making a lot of prejudiced assumptions there aren’t you ..feelings aren’t practical experiences.Especially when reported third hand .
Well just look at how the grey squirrels go after the red ones and no one has ever done anything to stop it
Actually, the Scots do sthg against it, and they have now found out that a balance is emerging: the greys live on te lower parts of trees, the reds have the upper stories. Also, the grey ones are much more susceptible to being eaten by pine martins, but there have been countless articles about this "invasions".
True, it's so green everywhere. Frightening
Apparently there are 195 countries in the world.
As a person who lives in the country i can honestly say i have never seen anyone as out if place as a little white kid from the inner city as the sun went down around the campfire. She and her parents were TERRIFIED
I manage a rural airbnb and its always the white city folk that complain its too dark and that everything in the local village closes at 5.
What were you cooking?
.
You were the girl. See Freud for a full explanation of your dream.
Trekking / walking in the India country side you will to see the local people living there and dominating the environment like any nation on the planet ,
but in the UK they try to call it country side racism which is a very twisted and a very strange view ...
so sangita the only examples of racism you mention happened in london and the newsroom maybe these are the two places you should avoid.
You do not avoid the places, lest the "virus spreads", you try to change things, and as far as the news room is concerned, she did. A lot of people are redeemable.
Just causing trouble again
It’s funny that my brother in law was in a Yorkshire town and felt racism was rife as he was told he could not go up certain streets due to being the wrong colour he is white.especially after dark.
What town was it?
I've never had to experience this, but I see it happen to my Asian wife. It breaks my heart, and boils my blood, every time.
I hope I can be part of making things better for her, and you, and everyone.
I'm a middle aged white man who now lives in the countryside at a coastal town. I'm absolutely gutted that you are right. This is not the UK I wanted. I'm glad to see diversity, shame some people don't understand. I love your work. There should not be no-go areas here and even i know there are places i can't go because I'm different.
Which is it, the countryside or a coastal town ??? It can't be both!
I like my culture and my history and believe them worthy of protection and promotion. Diversity defiles, denigrates and dilutes both. Diversity is strength, conformity is freedom, stupidity is wisdom, if Orwell were alive today
NARCISSIST!!!
As a black woman, l feel the same way..l feel very uncomfortable going in the country its because lm a black women born in the UK its funny because when white people come to the Caribbean, they are very welcomed
Ha ha !! from my experience of the British abroad they all think they are superior and entitled !! Down here in OZ we just laugh at them and I was born and bred in rural Lincolnshire !!
I hope you're not talking about Jamaica, white tourists are constantly reminded to be alert and on guard and told not to travel at night or stray too far from the hotels. Doesn't sound that welcoming.
@@Woodsey__you should be alert & on guard in ANY country..
@@1902donna For real...France is knee deep in pickpockets and scoundrels at every tourist area.
I feel uncomfortable going to London.
I live in a medium town in the west country and am in villages a fair amount and my parents lived in a picture postcard village. Locals have always put a cutesy spin on it....."Oh, they're such country bumpkins". Nope. It's backward.
It was like this when I grew up here in the 80's and it's still like it having returned from travels far and wide. Even though as an older kid I knew many people were 'that way' it was still shocking after I left and then returned 20-odd years later to see they were by and large still that way.
Sometimes I feel as if I've wandered into Tory headquarters. If I go to a party and chat around the room with strangers I lose count of the number of times I'm left blinking frantically - race, immigration, pregnancy, social security, NHS, killing stuff, stringing people up...... all the top hits.
What do the snotty left care about; trans “rights” for kids and hurling
more money into the broken system of the no hope service. Get some new ideas.
Thank you for telling us. I really appreciate your honesty ❤
Sending love from Kent
Typical move back metropolitan arrogance if you dont like it foxtrot oscar.
Why would I tell them that? @@stephenholmes1036
@@stephenholmes1036 Is this that legendary country hospitality?
Rural places in most countries can be hostile towards outsiders. They can also be dangerous, because they have a lot of secrets. I've seen it in Spain, France and Ireland. I'm sure England is similar.
I can believe it in France, but Spain and Ireland? I find that hard to believe and I'm an Irishman living in Spain, worst I've seen is some native Irish speakers getting pissy because I didn't learn Gaelic at school in Dublin so had no idea what they were saying.
It's like that pretty much everywhere. Unless the rural area has a majority of liberally minded people (which is exceedingly rare) you run into all kinds of hostility towards "outsiders". It's especially true when they are of a different ethnicity than those rural people.
Try rural India or Pakistan , people get killed
Most people in western countries are civilised and decent
@@PoldarkGodzilla I'm not very convinced of that! There used to be a veneer of civilisation, that's gone now.
Spent loads of time in the countryside as man of mixed heritage and encountered no racism. Most people are alright in the UK
I can say they are not.
@@bitterqueen7065 I can say they are
Try living in rural Alberta, Canada. If it wasn’t for the traditional check patterns, we’d be wearing brown shirts.
Certainly there are parts of this country I wouldnt dream of going to, because I feel unsafe. Most of them are in cities though. Self and Sri Lankan wife have no problem wandering all over the Rural North, and have never been made to feel unwelcome here.
I did get kicked out of a restaurant at the Lake District for challenging the waiter serving us wearing the black face. Everyone in the restaurant shouted at us(with my white British partner) our entire stay was ruined after that 😢
When you cause problems you tend to get pushback.
@@palerider955 what problems. Please explain
@@julisweetifyI would imagine you shouting in a loud voice would be one reason you would get kicked out.
What is black face??
Just a simple question, HOW ON EARTH IS THIS WOMAN ON ANY CHANNEL ?
She is insufferable .
I live in the highlands up here in Scotland and I can assure you that the problems you have in London and other major cities don’t exist here. You can keep your opinions and your way of life. We’re happy here living like we have for generations
In my experience (5 weeks in the UK 15 years ago), Scotland was a very friendly place. Pity it's closed on Sundays 😉
Im from West Cornwall and agree with you 100%
This comment is a breath of fresh air
I assume you have lots of non-whites coming to the Highlands too, is that right?
@ledrurollins9970 nobody is stopping anybody going.
You couldn't pay me to go to London, Liverpool or Stoke its down to personal choice.
My girlfriend is born and bred British, and speaks with a Yorkshire accent, but she is ethnically Chinese. We go all over the countryside and everyone is lovely. Never one instance of racism ever. Maybe she has a bit of privilege because is absolutely stunningly beautiful. But still. Always end up having lovely conversations with the locals. She says herself she suffered more racism from ethnics. Leave the countryside alone. It's great as it is
When we’re talking about Rascim we’re talking about black and brown people a Chinese woman that is white washed ain’t gonna be looked down upon .
I'm White and i feel othered up to the eyeballs when i pop into Bradford. The long hair doesn't help with that. Only natural - human beings are naturally tribal. You'll never eradicate it.
Perfect comment. It's human nature. I feel weird when going to 'white' areas of the UK (I'm brown), but I make it a point to always complement anyone I encounter and they melt like butter.
@@ukanwars yeah me too. I like people and generally find common ground with most folk.
@@Trippenzoid it's not that bad but I wouldn't live there. Nice countryside around it anyway.
Perhaps they’re all jealous of your lovely, luscious hair! 😂
@@mp71001 maybe I should convert to Sikhism and wear a turban.
A WHILE AGO I WATCHED A PROGRAM ABOUT THIS WOMAN, WHO ALWAYS WANTED TO RUN A FARM, ONE DAY SHE DID IT, NOT SURE WHAT SHE DID, MAYBE RAISING LAMAS, BUT NOT SURE, ANYWAY, SHE TALKED ABOUT RACISM, BECAUSE SHE WAS FOUND A LETTER PINNED TO THE GATE TO HER FARM TELLING ER TO GET OUT, SHE WASN'T WELCOME, ALL BECAUSE OF HER SKIN COLOUR. NOT SURE IF SHE GAVE IN ANDMMOVED, I HOPE NOT BUT YOU NEVER KNOW.
Like you, I'm British Asian but I have grown up and - apart from a 7 year stint in London in my twenties - I've always lived in the countryside or rural towns, as opposed to big cities. I didn't experience much racism where I grew up in the Northeast Wales/Cheshire border, and I didn't either in Surrey or Devon where I've also lived.
Kent was also for the most part fine, but I do remember arriving for the first time in Tunbridge Wells for the first time (as I was due to work there for six months), finding a beautiful bucolic country village cricket scene on a fine Kentish summer day and parking the car up in the car park next door and turning the engine off. I kid you not, ever single person sat watching the game did the slow-turning-around-and-staring-for-a little-bit-too-long thing, which made me feel a little uncomfortable. However, that was people of a certain age and that's as far as it went; the rest of my time there was actually fine.
You might not experience it to your face but you can be sure that what's been said once you left the room was plenty awful on many an occasion.
@@DennisMoore664Oh, I have no doubt about that!
If you stand out from the crowd and look different, then of course people are going to stare at you. It happens in just about every country on the planet. Nothing to do with "racism".
What was the point of their report? I'm sure as a white man I'd feel uncomfortable in either Harlem or the Bronx in New York.
Those are small sections. You are comfortable everywhere else
@@NotShowingOff
How about feeling uncomfortable in all major cities in the UK after dark?
Especially if you walk around wearing expensive jewellery such as a watch. (Undercover police wearing expensive watches to catch criminals)
@@NotShowingOff I'm assuming it's a question? You've written it as if it's a statement. Apologies for having a grasp of English. Those areas were examples. Unless you're expecting me to list, ad infinitum, all places I might feel uncomfortable visiting?
actually there a lot of white people in both places
@@NotShowingOff The British countryside is small too. Do you have a point? 🤡
I can definitely relate to this i left a big city and moved to a small town,and was shocked by the attitude and behaviour the locals i found myself stereotyped everywhere i went eventually it became toxic for me sad thing is when you are alone in these places and you are of colour it is hard to complain about racism as they will often say that you are jumping on the race bandwagon or you have a chip on your shoulder shoulder
I she should be more concerned for her safety in big cities....
My experience was different living in a van for a year travelling the UK I loved it on the whole.
Saying that I am thick skinned. People were friendlier than I expected Cornwall to Scotland n back down.
Not everyone will have the same experience though
Does this woman ever sit up straight?
What a disgusting remark
Give it a few hundred years it’ll sort itself out
What? Do you Jean being bred out😮
Which wildlife charities are we talking about. I donate to several so I need to know so I can cancel my standing orders.
LOOKING FOR STUFF THAT'S NOT THERE.
liberals!
Ffs stop going on about Nigel Farage. These broadcasters get right on my ****
It works both ways half cast people get called coconuts by some black communities it’s always the same people whinging about racism. The Chinese have been here for a very long time you don’t hear them going on about racism they just get on with earning a living.
i saw a Chinese complaining of racism when a pianist in St Pancras told him "we're not in communist China now" and then played ching Chen hanji
Full black Africans get called coconuts, supposedly it means a black person who doesn't care for the community, but in reality it often means someone who doesn't fot the stereotype
It's utter drivel , charities again .
Wales is the only place i feel ok in when i visit the countryside. England is an entirely different matter
Your right the welsh are very nice people
@@frankali5203 they really are. I holiday in wales twice a year and irrespective of which part I’ve visited I’ve had a pleasant experience.
@@frankali5203apart from when they used to set fire to your cottage.😮
go for a holiday, but don't buy land
@@heatherboardman7004Sons of Glyndwr?
England is a white country, large numbers of minorities in this country, live in the city. Obviously if said minorities go to the countryside they'll encounter a mostly white space. If i went to Nigeria im pretty sure od feel in the minority and encounter some sort of prejudice
The British left many minorities in Nigeria and the other colonies and protectortates, divide and rule
@@iaindcostayes and I expect they get a lot of prejudice
Oh dear sangeeta truth hurts
The countryside is all native Brits have left of their country
My take on Europe PRIOD is, it's theirs, they can feel how they want to feel about me as a black man, I'm going to enjoy what i came to enjoy regardless. Whenever I experience looks or other stuff I feel happy that I do not live in the same state off fear as the person projecting that negative energy. If they don't have the spine or intelligence to direct that negativity at the people that caused you to think that way then it's their problem.
I have lived in the countryside. Non-white people that lived there were well respected and absolutely accepted IF they tried to make themselves part of the community. If they tried to make the community change to suit them then they were definitely rejected and shunned. Visitors to the countryside were always welcomed from what I saw and only got a bad experience if they wanted things done differently than they had been for generations.
White 'townies' experience exactly the same prejudices!
What if they wanted to keep themselves and mind their own business?
And it is of course left to the people inthe community to decide if the newcomers are behaving or not. It might be perfectly fine, but methinks there is a lot of room for prejudice and subjectivity there.
It's Great Britain...
Duh
Clearly, she had no callers
12:00 No one can MAKE you feel anything. That's on you. As a world traveler who has experienced blatant racism where my race is not the majority, I've learned to ignore that noise and keep myself safe. Indigenous peoples whose cultures are being attacked from every angle are justly angry and weary. Be mindful, read the room, be respectful, and plan your journey accordingly.
So if someone held a knife to your throat, they would not be the ones making you feel fear?
@@tryingmybest9819Is that what this topic is , robbery at knifepoint ? 🙄
@@YorkshireTea-nu3qh avoiding the question? I would too since you were plain wrong
..a bit of victim blaming going on here..
Oh yes, everyone is a "victim" 🙄For you, I suggest putting your helmet on and staying inside your safe room. @@iaindcosta
Your sentiment about being anxious in certain parts of Kent quite understandable, as would a white person would feel in certain parts of London.
Why?
@@fh2428chemical attacks , anti white sentiment, etc
I’m sorry, why what? Is it about people of different cultural backgrounds being anxious about traveling in Kent or others being anxious in certain parts of London? Please explain. I feel confident Jewish people might be just a tad anxious of living in London at the moment!
@@tomfitzpatrick6362 Why would a white person feel anxious in certain parts of London? I live in the same part of London as one of the biggest Jewish communities in the country. Everyone seems to be going about their daily business as usual.
I've lived in a lovely part of Yorkshire most of my life. You and your family are welcome here Sangita. As are all who enjoy our wonderful countryside. I'm truly sorry that our country has become less friendly. We need to change that for the better.
The story about feeling uncomfortable about the Kent countryside, because Nigel Farage was there with a pair of binoculars is absolutely ludicrous.
We have entire regions of the continental United States which never got any better at race relations, in the aggregate, than they had been prior to civil rights legislation and enforced anti-discrimination laws.
And much as this commentary illustrated, what had been latent, tamped-down, or just restrained violent rage against the government for having forced these people to behave in a civilized manner has been harnessed by the MAGAt movement.
Just like Farage and Johnson tried to rekindle "John Bull" and "Rule Britannia".
What have "civil rights" done to restore native Americans ownership of their ancestral lands?!
@@PatJones-jz9rs it's allowed them a pathway to regain control of their destinies. Not universally true, but any time a tribe or nation gets ahead through casinos and such, they use the receipts to buy back what was stolen.
The state of Oklahoma is an interesting example. The Federal government has been forced, through the courts, to enforce the negotiations and treaties, some of over 150 years ago,to the detriment of the descendants of Caucasian opportunists and land grabbers. Not a perfect thing, but our country is run like a sort of lottery. Regarding healthcare and everything else that you can mention.
When are you Anglo-Saxons going to give back the land to the Welsh?
@@PatJones-jz9rsReal Native Americans don't care. My father in law is from Colombia, and he said he wishes the Brits had colonised Colombia instead of the Spaniards, because he said we would've done a better job 😂 It seems you're getting offended on behalf of other people who you don't understand.
@@718juniusI'm English, and I'm part Welsh with a Welsh surname. No-one cares, it's 2024, go take a chill pill. 😂
I had mild racism when leaving london to norfolk when I was younger. In schools, they basically thought I was Top Boy adjacent which was mildly annoying but the places I dont enjoy is going into pubs in some villages with firends or a partner. It just feels like the entire pub would stop talking and stare at me like I was an alien. I have since moved back to a city and feel more comfortable in those spaces again with cities being much more multi-cultural
I got that in the Dominican Republic because I was white, so what?
It’s not something they can help. When someone new comes along of course your more interesting than discussing Aunt Betty’s bunions…
@@mrcockney-nutjob3832 I think that's fair. But for me, I wouldnt say I want to be drawing attention to myself in most places, I am wanting to feel like I have integrated and unfortunately I just didn't. It's fine for the odd stare but we have been multi cultural since the windrush generation and I didn't enjoy being seen as exotic in those places. And having people in land rover defenders shouting obscenities at me was a shock and that happened to me a few times and that's before the Brexit vote became a front issue in people's mind. My mother could take it, probably she has been more used to it. But me and my siblings didn't feel like we belonged and when we graduated university all fled back to bigger cities.
Rural areas are very "Royston Vasey." I know this because I've lived in a rural town for 37 years. It's slowly getting more diverse and changing for the better.
What makes it better than it was then? And for who specifically? How?🤔or are you just talking nonsensical ridiculous bullshittery to massage your ego🙄
"Small town, small minds" is a universal condition amongst our species.
Just because you imagined something doesnt mean its real. From , a fellow brown person and countryside lover
I can understand her trepidation though. When you are constantly 'otherised' especially by people in power (and thereby giving tacit consent for everyone else to join in) it makes you fearful that you will experience some sort of rejection, at best, or blatant racism, at worst.
I'm white and I feel other white people staring at me. Nothing to with colour. All people are quirky and odd.
@pixiewings21_9 well human beings are by nature tribal and being "othered" is simply reality as an outsider in any society. Whining never created change, rather accepting that life isn't fair and rolling with the punches is what does. Setting unrealistically high expectations inevitably leads to disappointment
Odd that, I used to go around the south east with a white scotsman, he asked me a couple of times if it 'bothered' me, the looks and odd atmosphere aimed in my direction, I didn't notice it.
Been from south london unless people were openly aggressive and wanted a punch up, they didn't bother me, I'd have happily had the punch up with them.
No doubt you'd tell him that he imagined it too.
Bootlickers are everywhere I've found.
whatever you say .... coconut
Some people will turn everything into racism😢
And we are giving money to these charities? How much did this crazy assessment cost us, they will never get another penny of my money, are we paying for our own downfall, what will they think of next
I am Kenyan living in Germany. Racism is part of life. But the tribalism here is far worse than any racism. This being their country they can do as they want. But what fellow kenyan can do to you is horrible.
It's 100% true. I used to travel to small market towns and villages. About 30% of people were neutral. 30% friendly. The rest absolute bigots. North Yorkshire was the worst experience.
Pretty much the same as everywhere then
Let's look at the countryside, now let's look at the largest built up areas of the UK. See the problem? Pretty sure you don't 😂
Yorkshire people don't even accept Lancastrians as equals in society. It's a fact that Yorkshire and Northumberland has the lowest population diaspora than any English counties. You're a foreigner if you from out of the county.
My girlfriend is born and bred British, and speaks with a Yorkshire accent, but she is ethnically Chinese. We go all over the countryside and everyone is lovely. Never one instance of racism ever. Maybe she has a bit of privilege because is absolutely stunningly beautiful. But still. Always end up having lovely conversations with the locals. She says herself she suffered more racism from ethnics. Leave the countryside alone. It's great as it is
I live in North Yorkshire and it’s absolutely fine. Worst bigotry I saw was in London.
Let's all admit between Nigel Farage in the UK and Donald Trump in the USA we now have a more divided world.Pre 2016 we were making progress. How sad.
How ridiculous this is, outsiders always feel a bit different from locals - wherever you are, whatever your skin colour!
The presenter should not cut off eye contact with the viewers!
it might be racism but not colonial. you cannot be a colonizer in your own home.
Ah, but they say there are no indigenous people in Britain...
They're working on the coloniser in your own home angle... Cheddar man was black, dunt you know.
You can't colonize your own home but you can still be a colonizer in your own home, just not actively colonizing at that specific time. For example Michael Palin is still a travel journalist in his own home even if he is not traveling at that specific time.
Colonial minded racism, it’s a state of mind, not necessarily an action that you are involved in.
@@kevinsmarts9953your post is utterly mindless drivel.