There have been a lot of concern that more BAME people are dying of Coronavirus. On another thread about Germany someone was asking if their BAME population is smaller than the UK. But who is actually included in this definition? I am partucularly confused about the ethnic minority part.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary ethnic means:
relatingto aparticularraceofpeople:
OR
from a differentrace, orinterestingbecausecharacteristicof an ethnicgroupthat is very different from those that arecommoninwesternculture:
What's a race? Is everone in western culture the same race? What is even western culture? Do you feel included in the BAME definition? I'm from A western culture, not from western culture in general. I am from a minority culture (in the UK) that is much smaller than the Black ethnic minority, for example.
And black is a skin colour, Asia is a continent....
Just feels like talking about the BAME as a "community" is a very strange thing to do as it includes so many different people who are very different to eachother!
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How do you define BAME?
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Abbccc · 17/04/2020 20:15
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