1/3rd to be 'non white

[vetran]

Ethnic minorities 'will make up one third of the population by 2050' | Mail Online

Currently, eight million people, or 14 per cent of the UK population, are from ethnic minorities. But they now account for 80 per cent of population growth, while the white population remains constant.

Experts predict that as a result, by the middle of the century between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of the population – up to 16million people – will be from a minority community, the report says.

Ethnic minority communities predominantly live in three main cities, with 50 per cent living in London, Manchester and Birmingham alone. They are seven times more likely to live in an urban area than someone who is white.

Oh well!

[speling bee]

Ethnic minorities 'will make up one third of the population by 2050' | Mail Online



Oh well!

What about white ethnic minorities?

[vetran]

The non white bit was LBC's take on it.

But they aren't including the Eastern Europeans or French in the report.

[northernladuk]

At what point do they stop being minorities then?

[speling bee]

At what point do they stop being minorities then?

You get three guesses.

[Mich the Tester]

It's a shame there's no attention paid in this report to those of mixed background and the intermarriage factor, i.e. children of 'white' and 'ethnic minority' backgrounds, as those children will be termed 'ethnic minority' in the current way of counting; if they're counted as 'ethnic minority' then there's bound to be a large increase in ethnic minorities as people mingle and intermarry. If they're counted as 'white' then suddenly, hey presto, you have more 'white people'. Just like that!

[speling bee]

Ethnic minorities 'will make up one third of the population by 2050' | Mail Online



Oh well!

I'm trying to work out how the white population is constant but accounts for 20% of the population growth.

[Mich the Tester]

You get three guesses.

When they bleach their skin and impersonate Alf Garnett?

[Mich the Tester]

I'm trying to work out how the white population is constant but accounts for 20% of the population growth.

[mudskipper]

What's the definition of white?

In the UK we define our own ethnicity. If I want to say I'm Asian I can. My mother was born in India, so why not?

In the US, they have the 'one drop' rule - if you have any black ancestry, you're black. Which means large numbers of white Americans (including some pretty racist ones) are technically black 'cause great grandpappy couldn't keep his pants on round the slave girls.