Scots Made Official Ethnic Group

[Witta]

Scottish people are to be officially recognised as a distinct ethnic group under new guidelines for monitoring racial and ethnic equality.

The Scots, the English and the Welsh, will now be able to affirm their national identity on official forms. Census forms and job applications have until now only allowed groupings like Asians, Chinese and Africans to specify their ethnicity.

The move should result in closer monitoring of how Scots are treated. It is also expected to make job hunting fairer enabling greater racial equality in the workplace. The new move will also crackdown on public sector employers to promote racial equality. Private companies will also come under close scrutiny.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3387749.stm

[Berrocscir]

Oh thank you our great lords and masters for granting us permission to exist

...and I hope no scot is discriminated against in the workplace, but also goes for the English in their own country!

[Æğele Wiğercwida]

Ah, but I am the son of an English mother and a Scotish father.....



.....WHAT DO I PUT?

[perkuns]

Ah, but I am the son of an English mother and a Scotish father.....



.....WHAT DO I PUT?

British?

[ArcticWarrior]

It's about time. And London is often wondering why so many Scots are displeased...
At least something is going right.

[Pictoria]

That is absolutely absurd. Scottish people are of the same racial make-up a those of Britain and much of the rest of Europe. But what can we expect from a regime that worships the Jew Franz Boas and his devious disciples.

[Sigurd]

.....WHAT DO I PUT?

"I am a man of dual heritage", much like half Negroes/half Asians do. In any other instance, use the write-in to specify "British bastard, in several meanings of the word".

[Edie]

That is absolutely absurd. Scottish people are of the same racial make-up a those of Britain and much of the rest of Europe.

Every European national or sub-national group should aim to be recognised along ostensible ethnic lines whether it is a viable designation or not; it validates the notion of ethnic exclusivity and its relation to nationality, and can in turn be used to manipulate certain legal structures as they affect the group.

So, this can only be a good thing. If I am 'officially' a member of the ethnic group "Scottish", the newly arrived Abdul and his sprawling brood cannot ever be the same as I am; indeed, they must be classified differently. Such are the intangible walls we must keep on building between ourselves and these people whom we cannot for the moment repel with great big physical walls like those with which our forebears often had the sense to mark their territory.

[Astrid Runa]

That is absolutely absurd. Scottish people are of the same racial make-up a those of Britain and much of the rest of Europe. But what can we expect from a regime that worships the Jew Franz Boas and his devious disciples.

Maybe we don't want to identify as "British" or "English". Ever think of it like that?

[Hamar Fox]

Maybe we don't want to identify as "British" or "English". Ever think of it like that?

Who said Scottish people should identify as English?