SkyBlueFlux
Well-Known Member
Interestingly I find that interesting in that when we here of elections in the US we hear of the black vote or hispanic vote etc etc its so alien to us - no UK Party or UK media outlet would break the electorate down in those terms - just sounds wrong. Some would think of it as woke thinking I just think its disrespectful to stick people in a bloc without deep analysis and even then to group them by ethnicity is probably illegal here
I think part of the reasoning we don’t see it in the UK is that social class divisions count for more than divisions by race or ethnicity (or any other trait for that matter) and so that tends to be the focus of our electorate profiling. Our country isn’t free from racial biases of course, but here race isn’t as good a predictor of who you’d be expected to vote for and so really it has more limited practical value.
But when we do fancy bucketing a group of people into a very precise stereotype… well that’s what we have the Scottish for.