Good point.
British people don't really exist. What are even English or Scottish people? French people? European people? Where does it start, where does it end? We don't know.
We don't know what a white person is. No idea, no clue. Where could we even start?
Funnily enough, though, those considerations never seem to apply to Palestinians, native Americans, indigenous Australians, etc.
There is only a certain group that is somehow impossible to define precisely, yet is the primary target of those considerations.
I see you created the account to just post this so you're highly likely to not be worth the response but "native brit" is vague not because British people don't exist - there is a legal definition for that - but because Britain has been invaded and seen migration for millenia. Are Normans less native than Anglo-Saxons? Are the Celts the most native? Why do the Vikings and Franks get to assimilate into nativity but not the non-white? The answer to that is very clear - however people tend to hide it behind terms like "native".
lazyatom|5 months ago
> In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third
Those figures line up with the "White British" row of the table: 59.79% in 2001, 36.8% in 2021.
So it seems pretty clear his definition of "native Brit" means "White British person".
ettutateu|5 months ago
We don't know what a white person is. No idea, no clue. Where could we even start?
Funnily enough, though, those considerations never seem to apply to Palestinians, native Americans, indigenous Australians, etc. There is only a certain group that is somehow impossible to define precisely, yet is the primary target of those considerations.
pkd|5 months ago