Starkey at it again

[minestrone]

Starkey reminds me of some old boozer in a pub where regulars wish he drank elsewhere due to the endless moaning about crap nobody is really that interested in.

[xoggoth]

Hardly very controversial to say much of the UK is still white. And why should whites not cling to their own culture? Everyone else does.

The double standards we keep seeing are astonishing, for example, we spend tax payers' money on an Asian channel and then criticise a single program for showing white village life. We should make up our minds whether to encourage integration or multiculturalism and apply it to all without favour, not demand that white British make concessions and others none.

[TheFaQQer]

David Starkey in new row over 'mono-culture' comments - Telegraph

All he seems to be saying is that he lives / frequents areas which are unmitigatingly white. I can't believe that that's newsworthy, to be honest.

[DodgyAgent]

Do you have any evidence to support that? or is it just a case of "they're predominately white therefore they must be bigoted"

My mother in law is all the evidence you need.

Joking aside, I think this "bigotry" exists in any community anywhere in the world. The more closed off the community is the more afraid/protective the people in it are. The same applies to any community whether it be a sports team, a business, an office as well as say a village, town or city even. It applies therefore to white, black or whatever colour a groups skin is. Skin colour is an easy and simple, albeit crude, way of identifying people who "are not from round these parts".

[ArthurBigot]

The rest of the country has a culture of parochial bigotry.

Do you have any evidence to support that? or is it just a case of "they're predominately white therefore they must be bigoted"

[d000hg]

Where I've come from in Yorkshire, where I've come from in Westmorland, where I largely live in Kent, where I holiday much in the south west, it is absolutely and unmitigatingly white.

In the north at least, he is 100% right. So much so that a black person catches the eye.

[Arturo Bassick]

I live in London and he is right. The rest of the country has a culture of parochial bigotry.

Even where there are other races they only exist in their own little enclaves clinging tightly to their own cultures. There is no real region of the UK where communities are properly integrated. There are a huge number of individuals who are integrated though.

[DodgyAgent]

David Starkey in new row over 'mono-culture' comments - Telegraph

I live in London and he is right. The rest of the country has a culture of parochial bigotry.

[Spacecadet]

David Starkey in new row over 'mono-culture' comments - Telegraph

saying: "No it's not. Most of Britain is a mono-culture. You think London is Britain. It isn't.

"Where I've come from in Yorkshire, where I've come from in Westmorland, where I largely live in Kent, where I holiday much in the south west, it is absolutely and unmitigatingly white.