Study reveals UK far from ‘racially just society’
A major survey into race equality reveals, ethnic and religious minorities in the UK are suffering from “strikingly high” levels of abuse.
More than one in three people from minority backgrounds have experienced racially motivated physical or verbal abuse, according to the research conducted by the universities of St. Andrews, Manchester and King’s College, London.
The survey which was released this week in a book called racism and ethnic inequality in a time of crisis, the two-year research study was led by Nissa Finney, professor of human geography at St Andrews.
“The UK is immeasurably far from being a racially just society. The kinds of inequality we see in our study would not be there if we had a really just society,” Finney said.
The survey further revealed that more than a quarter of those from minority ethnic groups had experienced racial insults with almost one in three experiencing racism in a public place, while 1 of 6 reported suffering from racism from neighbors, and at least 17 percent had suffered damaged property in racist attacks.
Between February and October 2021, a whopping number of more than 14,000 people from 21 ethnic groups, including Caucasians, were questioned for the economic and social research council-funded survey.
“The kinds of inequality we see in our study would not be there if we had a really just society,” Finney said.
Adding to it, the discrimination in dealing with the police was reported by more than one in five of all respondents.
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