Is my best friend racist?

I’ve no idea … that not what I asked was it.

I asked for examples of “British Culture” it really shouldn’t be so hard.

Demoncracy rule of law a notion of justice and equity rights for women and girls - jsut to name a few….

… So that means that the UK is a Utopia for women and women’s rights ?

Ignorance is assuming that all of those things are possible, and accessible to women in this country.

Does Italy have a culture? What do you think Italian culture is?

…you are about the third person who has said this.. I’m just asking what that means. What is British Culture ?

have you been to tooting late at night? Have you lived in tooting for a number of years?

visiting a place is not the same as living it. If you are not living it you should accept that other people may have different opinions.

I agree with your friend. I am also an immigrant.

I can own property, have a job, vote.

it shows your ignorance that you don’t understand how astounding that is for women

And @ExtraOnions of course there is British culture. Have you lived outside the UK? If not, then maybe you don’t realise.

Your friend is of course right. It is not racism to point out the difficulties and complexities of trying to fulfil the needs of a multicultural society. It is very difficult. And I say that as a British immigrant in another country. I think you need to work on your critical thinking skills. You’re saying this is racism sounds like the binary thinking of a teen or young adult.

Agreed and just because we have our own low life why let in more who don't even pay lip service to equality of the sexes.

Are you joking? Of course Britain has a British culture. Just like every other country.

We shouldn’t treat individuals differently based on where they come from, but you can’t just say the statistics mean nothing because they don’t align with the theoretical ‘right’ way to see the world.

I guess when asylum seekers are getting minor punishments for sexual crimes based on the defence of “it not being wrong in their country” they are lying?

….so if we do, what is it ? Is it just Bingo ?

bingo, the old Britain has no culture chestnut.

I’m mixed race and I agree with your friend.

I agree with her. I’m a culturalist. I think some cultures are better than others - my test is the status and treatment of wowmn and girls.

cultures who treat women and girls badly are not good cultures. If people from those cultures want to live here they change they ways.

and frankly we should be putting far more pressure internationally on cultures in other countries that treat women and girls poorly

(and yes there are still big issues about the treatment of women and girls in the UK - bit it is nothing compared)

I agree with your friend, and wouldn't have described anything she said, as being 'racist'... I'd have called it, pretty much, stating facts! Sorry OP!

Surely you must be aware of events in the U.K. over the last 30 years outside your village? Your friend is correct.

While I agree with everything you have said, I think it's actually worse in many other cultures?

Statistics are irrelevant to the fact that if you negatively judge individuals and would treat them differently based on the country that they come from, you are racist.

That would be xenophobia. Not racism.

Are women well treated within our British Culture?

What I see are record numbers of violent and sexual crimes against women and girls, the almost decriminalised of Rape, an employment system that keeps women in poverty, children left in poverty because their fathers don’t pay for them, Domestic violence not treated properly, poor sentencing for crimes against women and girls, rampant misogyny both in person and online, victim blaming for women who don’t cover themselves properly.

What a Utopia for Women this country is …

…so is there some sort if Generic “British Culture” that we are all agreed on, and signed up to?
Surely if we know that some cultures don’t “fit in”, we must know what our culture, is and isn’t.

So what is the British Culture that people from other cultures don’t fit in with ?

I bet this is a reverse as noone is that naive.