will Glynn sue BB over racism?

Question

Didn't everyone take the piss out of Glynns accent at some poiunt in BB last year.
Was he being racist when being so over patriotic and anti English?
Can you only be racist to somone with dark skin then?
I am confused

Answer 1

I always thought that racism was discrimination against people of a different race,e.g. not giving someone a job because they were a negro, asian or oriental. This has now changed.You can be 'racist' against people of the same race as you (strange).
Will it soon become 'racist' for a cockney to insult a scouser or a New Yorker to insult a Texan? This folly can only serve to undermine true racism,which is what the anti-racism act was designed to protect us from.

Answer 2

Haven't you realised yet that it always seems to be the Asians, and I dont mean this offensively that scream on about racism all the time. If a coloured person is mugged or attacked it is always reported on the news as being investigated as a racist attack yet you don't see it with any other culture? Americans, Australians etc.. all have their nicknames for us brits and nobody ever kicks up a fuss but I find myself feeling ashamed of myself for calling someone from pakistan for example, a paki or someone from China a chink? Yet I feel perfectly ok to call an American a yank and I am far from offended If an Austalian calls me a pommy or an American calls me a limey. I think you get my point. I think possibly people with different skin colours to each other have underlying issues? I would like to point out that I am NOT a racist, my mothers side of the family are from Goa in India. I am simply stating the obvious. I think Jade Goody is not being racist, she is just an idiot who makes me ashamed to live in the same country. I say stop buring effigies and burn the real thing!!!

Answer 3

I object to the comment in one of the replies saying that the UK is on whole a bigoted nation, that's your opinion but I disagree. Look at London, you can see how many different races and creeds, cultures etc live together with no problem at all.

People always think of racism as being from a white skinned person abusing someone who has a different colour of skin. What about all the abuse and racist remarks that white people suffer at the hands of others? It goes both ways. I'm not English, but I think the English do get a raw deal - the Scots don't like them, the French don't like them, the Irish aren't very keen on them (generally speaking, of course, not everyone feels that way). I think the English need to be a bit more patriotic of their heritage, celebrate St George's with as much fervour as St Patrick's and St David's. Sadly, as you say, others would probably see it as racism rather than celebrating your identity.

Answer 4

Racism is a belief system or doctrine which states that inherent biological differences between human races determine cultural or individual achievement — with a corollary that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.[1]

The term racism is sometimes used to refer to preference for one's own ethnic group (ethnocentrism), fear of foreigners (xenophobia), views against interracial relationships (miscegenation), and/or generalizations about a specific group of people (stereotype).[2][3]

Racism has been a motivating factor in social discrimination, racial segregation and violence, including genocide. Politicians are known to practice race baiting in an effort to win votes. The term racist has been a pejorative term since at least the 1940s, and the identification of a group or person as racist is often controversial.
Racial discrimination is treating people differently based on race. While this term usually refers to unfair treatment of minority racial groups in western societies, it can also refer to the opposite situation — which is described by some as reverse discrimination when it is due to affirmative action or other attempts to remedy past or current discrimination against minority racial groups. The term has been criticized on the basis that there is nothing "reverse" about discrimination, but discrimination is simply discrimination everywhere it's seen.

Researchers at the University of Chicago (Marianne Bertrand) and Harvard University (Sendhil Mullainathan) found in a 2003 study that there was widespread discrimination in the workplace against job applicants whose names were merely perceived as "sounding black".[citation needed] These applicants were 50% less likely than candidates perceived as having "white-sounding names" to receive callbacks for interviews, no matter their level of previous experience. Results were stronger for higher quality résumés. The researchers view these results as strong evidence of unconscious biases rooted in the United States' long history of discrimination.

Another example of racial discrimination was Apartheid in South Africa, and the system of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Another example is the discriminatory lending patterns of some banks, and the policy of redlining.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

I don't think that Glyn Will sue as this is not racism that was occuring, but just normal jest & messing about

Answer 5

Racism is not always about the colour of someones skin .....As far as Glyn goes he was a young boy with little social skills and little knowledge of anything outside of Wales ... but then the same can be said for jade, she lacks social skills and lacks knowledge outside of anything English... a lot of it is plain and simple ignorance and as far as i can see a hell of a lot of jealousy on Jades behalf !!

Personally i like the friendly banter between the nations ... but sometimes some people do take it too far !
I find the UK as a whole is a very bigoted , racist nation ....

Answer 6

For that matter-what about Shahbaz?? He had a rough time of it..
At the end of the day though,they got their 15 minutes of fame.