When Meghan weds Harry, Britains relationship with race will change for ever

[Denzil_DC]

48. I believe the choice to include people of broadly Indian descent among the group "blacks"

was a political one made by some activists quite a while ago who were seeking to build a united front against racism.

It's not a term I as a white Brit ever recall hearing applied to people of Indian descent in everyday usage at all. I'm also not sure how many British people of Indian descent would apply it to themselves.

In my experience, if they refer to a heritage, it'll either be pointedly to their place of birth in the UK (a neat reply to any arsehole who tells them to "go home" ), or a more specific, geographically and geopolitically correct region or country in Asia where their forebears originated - Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.

I won't mention some of the terms we're still having trouble training some in our country not to use about people of Indian descent etc., but "black" would be polite in comparison.

Racism's a big deal in the UK, somewhat worse now than it's been for years with the tensions arising from Brexit. It hasn't led to such mass outbursts of deadly violence as it has in the USA, for various reasons, but it's all too prevalent, even in our larger multicultural cities.