Huh...I'm mixed race?

BlitzKrieg

Recently started a programme via my job that is funded by the british government (currently working in london) and they had me fill in this equal employment form and this is the list of ethnicities




Heh, I though I had misread it initially, but no, Irish is down as mixed race. That logic only works if you accept White -Gypsy irish traveller as the standard and mixed race Irish is a mix of traveller & something else which might not be something you'd want to think is the assumed status of all Irish people.


Its not the first time I've gotten a kick out of the weird seperation of irish in these forms in the UK, many years ago I remember it having "White - Irish", which got me curious what poor Samantha Mumba would have had to do if she filled in one of these.

but it stopped for a while replaced with "White - european" so I'm both surprised its popped back up and also the odd decision to make it mixed race

I find these entertaining mostly cause in the end Irish is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality and a culture yes, but not an ethnicity.

K-9

We're all mixed race really.

Out of Africa!

SEPT 23 1989

What race could "other" be?

biko

That's great news, now you use the race card if you get into trouble over there.

Adamantium

I was surprised to when I went to London last week to a doctors appointment, they had list on the form I was about to fill out of the nationalities I would be most comfortable with it if I had to be hospitalised. I thought in ultra PC UK, that the idea I'd asked this in person never mind official documentation was hilarious and incredibly ironic, having the opposite effect.

This really did seem being ultra sensitive/touchy feely going so far over the line that it loops back around in on itself leading to a pretty racist question

rubadub

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

what poor Samantha Mumba would have had to do if she filled in one of these.

Well on this form maybe "mixed -irish"

I would put down "white-other ethnic group"

or just "prefer not to say".

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What race could "other" be?

Inuit, native american?

The Backwards Man

Human

BlitzKrieg

rubadub wrote: »

Well on this form maybe "mixed -irish"

I would put down "white-other ethnic group"

or just "prefer not to say".


Inuit, native american?

its what I went for in the end after taking the picture,

FTA69

We have to do all this total b*llocks in work as well. It usually says White Irish or White Other. Never seen Mixed Irish before, it must be a mistake.

Nucular Arms

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What race could "other" be?

Eskimo.

Duckworth_Luas

It's a typo.

Should read "White - Irish", as on UK census forms

NachoBusiness

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Should read "White - Irish" as on UK census forms

Sounds like a cocktail.

Karl Stein

Humanzee.

BBDBB

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Human

or are we Dancer?

uch

Hairy Bollix

Adhamh

I don't know what the criteria are for defining someone as a different ethnicity, but 5/10 times you can tell us apart from the English, so surely that counts for something?

Like when people say that because the Polish are white, that we're all the same race... I'd be a bit hesitant to go that far now...

AndonHandon

I'm black where it matters.















My heart.

weisses

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

I find these entertaining mostly cause in the end Irish is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality and a culture yes, but not an ethnicity.

Ohh that username ..... the irony

Jimminy Mc Fukhead

biko wrote: »

That's great news, now you use the race card if you get into trouble over there.

Blitzkrieg: Mr Peterson I want to know why I was overlooked for promotion?
P: Well Blitzkrieg, you have the highest absentee rate in the company. You're
colleagues and supervisors all unanimously agree that you are grossly
incompetent and shiftless and you're seldom sober.
Blitzkrieg: Oh so this is a racial thing Mr Peterson. You've got a discriminating
problem with my mixed irish background and you want to hold
me back
P: Eh..Blitzkrieg you're the new chief finance officer, I'll begin moving out of
your new office straight away..

Nodin

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Recently started a programme via my job that is funded by the british government (currently working in london) and they had me fill in this equal employment form and this is the list of ethnicities




Heh, I though I had misread it initially, but no, Irish is down as mixed race. That logic only works if you accept White -Gypsy irish traveller as the standard and mixed race Irish is a mix of traveller & something else which might not be something you'd want to think is the assumed status of all Irish people.


Its not the first time I've gotten a kick out of the weird seperation of irish in these forms in the UK, many years ago I remember it having "White - Irish", which got me curious what poor Samantha Mumba would have had to do if she filled in one of these.

but it stopped for a while replaced with "White - european" so I'm both surprised its popped back up and also the odd decision to make it mixed race

I find these entertaining mostly cause in the end Irish is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality and a culture yes, but not an ethnicity.

Do you perhaps have one parent from Dublin and one from Cork?

Sheldons Brain

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What race could "other" be?

Tiger Woods.

Lapin

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What race could "other" be?

The Grand Nationality.

Bob24

You made it to London, you must be an Irish traveler.

Alexis Sanchez

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

I find these entertaining mostly cause in the end Irish is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality and a culture yes, but not an ethnicity.

So, in other words, you don't know what an ethnicity is?

Reiver

Depends, are you Norse, Gael, Norman, Hugeneot, Scottish Planter, D4 or a Donegal man?

wil

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Human

Alienist

YFlyer

Its because Phil Lynott was half caste. He was always asking do any women want more Irish in them.

Grab All Association

YFlyer wrote: »

Its because Phil Lynott was half cast. He was always asking do any women want more Irish in them.

Half-caste*

YFlyer

Chris___ wrote: »

Half-caste*

Cheers

Captain Chaos

Mixed race, is that not a triathlon?

bb1234567

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Recently started a programme via my job that is funded by the british government (currently working in london) and they had me fill in this equal employment form and this is the list of ethnicities




Heh, I though I had misread it initially, but no, Irish is down as mixed race. That logic only works if you accept White -Gypsy irish traveller as the standard and mixed race Irish is a mix of traveller & something else which might not be something you'd want to think is the assumed status of all Irish people.


Its not the first time I've gotten a kick out of the weird seperation of irish in these forms in the UK, many years ago I remember it having "White - Irish", which got me curious what poor Samantha Mumba would have had to do if she filled in one of these.

but it stopped for a while replaced with "White - european" so I'm both surprised its popped back up and also the odd decision to make it mixed race

I find these entertaining mostly cause in the end Irish is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality and a culture yes, but not an ethnicity.

How is irish not an ethnicity? Tens of millions of people around the world claim to be of Irish ethnicity/descent.