Ethnic minorities don't visit the countryside?

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"although about 10% of the population is of an ethnic minority background, only about 1% of visitors to National Parks are from ethnic minorities." from
www.mosaicnationalparks.org/

Anyone from an ethnic minority have a view on why not?

claireybee I did before Ds as I was a DOE leader and they are the best places to take city kids walking. I also love taking kids in my family to National Trust places. When I was younger we didn't travel around the UK because we had family to visit abroad! I went walking with them in Andalucia & Le Mans. Little sis thought she need a passport to travel to Huddersfield as we travelled by train aboard and she thought she needed a passport just to leave the city

Yeah I suppose we do more wandering around in the countryside than proper hiking type walking so that's probably why

Agree moondog. And it's not neccessarily 'hostility' so much as unfamiliarity. Which can amount to the same thing in the end but doesn't always.

And this is true too: "white people on low incomes living in urban areas also don?t frequent the countryside much either"

I live in a smallish town just a short drive from several AONB incl Exmoor. A lot of my neighbours have never and I mean never been to them. Which I find inexplicable.

OrmIrian I live in quite a rural area and was surprised to discover that some then 10/ 11 year old friends of my children had not been for a walk in the local woods. There is a good path, it has lovely bluebells in spring, the local council organise free children's activites there once a year (although badly publicised). It might have been as much as a mile and a half from their homes but certainly no more. It isn't just city kids who need to be taken into the countryside .

I happened to be at a conference last week where a speaker happened to have some slides about how out of one primary school, only ONE of the pupils had been to the seaside - 1.5m away. School was in a tough area.

We don't go for days out in the countryside,because we live there and would rather visit towns,seaside ect.

When articles like this assume that country dwellers aren't used to seeing non white faces,it makes me cross.The area we live in was used as a base for African American G.I's during the war,and the indigenous population welcomed them,had them round for tea,put on entertainments for them-in fact there are quite a few people round here descended or related to those servicemen,including the farmer up the hill from us.We also have Antiguan,Filipino,Mauritian,Thai,and Indian locals,plus a lot of Welsh too,and thats just the ones I know.So we may be remote and rural,but a black face around here would be of no more interest than a white one.

My dad once took a group of tourists from India around his milking parlour.They were visiting relations in a nearby city and wanted to see an English farm.

Sometimes it does feel a bit like Royston Vasey round here. The local shop is for local people and every now and again they put a note up on the shop noticeboard to say that "Intruders have been spotted"
We are only up the road from Bristol but everyone knows everything about everyone around here.
If you change your car they get phazed by it and the curtains around the village can blow up a gale sometimes!