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Strategies to support a diverse workforce can be beneficial – but may have unintended consequences.
Self-proclaimed ‘white nationalists,’ white supremacists and ‘alt-right’ activists hold what they called a ‘Freedom of Speech’ rally in Washington, June 25, 2017.
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In the US, non-whites have higher birth rates and make up the bulk of new immigrants. As white people lose their demographic majority, some will resist the accompanying political changes.
Preparing chipatis at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, in Walsall.
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Theresa May is courting ethnic minority support for her Brexit deal with her rhetoric on EU nationals ‘jumping the queue’.
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An association with Brexit and a desire to win back the white working class aren’t particularly appealing to minority voters.
Kylian Mbappé (c), France’s new star.
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When France won the world cup in 1998, the team was celebrated for its multiculturalism. What has happened since?
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The UK’s black Caribbean community is traditionally more inclined towards Labour. They’re even less likely to switch now.
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Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
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If theatre, film and TV is to accurately reflect the world we live in, then the actors cast must reflect that diversity too.
Brick Lane: popularised in a novel by British writer, Monica Ali.
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Why do so many books by non-white authors find themselves in ‘global literature’?
New research suggests that members of ethnic minorities like advertising that features ethnic minorities – but only their own.
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Visible minority consumers prefer advertising that features white models to advertising that feature models from other ethnic minority groups. Why?
Satirical Bank Note (1820), highlighting how easy it was to be hanged for spending fake money, despite how prevalent it was.
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The 19th century Irish crimewave that wasn’t: how a change of policing brought the English counterfeiters to book.
Theresa May works on her credentials on a trip to India.
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Jeremy Corbyn fails to appeal to this key demographic for a number of important reasons.
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Integration reaps mental health benefits.
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Hate crime hurts.
Malcolm Turnbull often claims Australia is the world’s most successful multicultural nation.
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The government’s multicultural statement stays fairly much in the place where rhetoric around the issue has been located for the past generation – social control and integration.
On the outside.
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Whether it is a basic bank account, a mortgage to buy a house or loan to start a business, financial services are an essential part of modern life.
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If education and tolerance go hand in hand, how is it possible that anti-immigrant sentiments are so virulent in educated populations?
Australia displays many of the hallmarks of an ‘ethnocracy’ – albeit one cloaked in the rhetoric of multiculturalism.
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Australia was designed at Federation to ensure nationals of British descent would be able to create a society populated by individuals as much like themselves as possible.
Children from all of Botswana’s cultural groups, among them the San, must be made to feel comfortable at schools.
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Primary school children who belong to ethnic minorities are especially vulnerable to dropping out of school early. If teachers were better equipped to deal with multiculturalism, this could change.
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White middle-class parents get an easy time of it when it comes to parental involvement.