Caerphilly, where council workers have been warned not to use the term 'British' for fear of offending ethnic minorities
Posted on 11/12/2008 10:00:57 AM PST by BGHater
The word ‘British’ can be as offensive as ‘negro’ and ‘half-caste’, according to a race relations body.
The publicly-funded organisation’s views have been adopted by Caerphilly council in South Wales for a leaflet advising staff on how to deal with the public.
In a section on what words or phrases not to use to avoid causing offence, the leaflet solemnly informs the council’s 9,000 workers: ‘The idea of “British” implies a false sense of unity – many Scots, Welsh and Irish resist being called British and the land denoted by the term contains a wide variety of cultures, languages and religions.’
Caerphilly, where council workers have been warned not to use the term 'British' for fear of offending ethnic minorities
The suggestion the word ‘British’ should be avoided appears alongside similar sections which warn that ‘half-caste’ implies ‘a person is not whole and so should be avoided’ and that ‘negro’ has ‘racist overtones and is linked with the slave trade’.
The man behind the advice is former Labour minister Ron Davies – who lost his Cabinet job in 1998 after what he described as a ‘moment of madness’, when he was robbed after meeting a man on Clapham Common, a well-known gay haunt.
He has been the head of Valleys Race Equality Council (Valrec) for five years. Valrec is funded by councils and the Commission for Racial Equality and it pays Mr Davies £27,000 a year.
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Correct title:
Council ranks term 'British' with 'negroes' and bans it in case it upsets Scots, Welsh and minorities
Most likely the truth is that it offends muslims.
I will never surrender my Monte Python collection!
I guess the term “Americans” will be next.
> I guess the term “Americans” will be next.
Yup. In case it offends the Injuns.
I guess they’ll have to ban the term “European” too. Wonder what they’ll rename the European Union . . .
E.U.S.S.R.
‘Dixie’is a bad word too.
Britannia est insula.
Paulus est agricola.
Ron Davies est follis.
You nailed it on the head! The term American could be next.
Wake up America. Go to London and see how it has changed and it will give you insight to what the demorats want for us.
The English language is being destroyed......one word at a time.
Historically “Britons” were celts.
Scots, Welsh, Manx, should embrace the term British, Briton, Britain, and claim it as their own. It is their own. The saxon British are merely adopted kin; the celts are the real and original Brits.
He actually went to Canada but, as previously mentions, he was a man of foresight and good sense and quickly headed south.
What exactly DO you call black Africans?
Not all Africans ARE black, and not all Africans even WERE blacks. Carthaginians, Berbers, most ancient Egyptians come to mind and more recently, Boers and other native born Euro-Africans.
Apparently the sun DOES set on the British Empire.
Sad to think that they once ruled the seas and one of the greatest empires in the world.
The world will miss you.
Judging by the gloating tone of your comment, I would say that I don’t think you’ll be one of them.
The sun set on the British Empire long ago. It was replaced with the Commonwealth as we moved our priorities to trading with friendly nations, instead of occupying them.
So in once sense you are right, although only in your ignorance.
Because some Welsh town says that the term British is racist, you say that it was a good move for your family to leave London?!!!
You ever study geography or what chum?
its true, but by people who spell ‘honour’ some other way...
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