And Now The Counytyside Is Racist.

[webbo3]

https://twitter.com/BBCCountryfile/status/1277277327639154688

Anyone can go into the countryside, you can drive, walk, cycle, get a bus or train, anyone of any race can visit the countryside.

No wonder more and more people are turning against the bbc.

[DTCwordfan]

And we have so many statues to pull down.....
this bull has to go first, as they have been repressed by white farmers.

[Mamyalynne]

Gosh, this has been spoken about for a decade at least - is it from a new programme or an old one rehashed during lockdown?

[DTCwordfan]

https://www.gardencollection.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bull1.jpg

[Mamyalynne]

I see, it's a stupid thread.

Keep it.

[webbo3]

\\Gosh, this has been spoken about for a decade at least - is it from a new programme or an old one rehashed during lockdown?//

tonights show Mamyalynne.

[jim360]

Did you watch the relevant segment? It may not change your opinion but I kind of feel like it should matter. What's the actual point being made here?

[Mamyalynne]

I do know it has been covered in depth before, I can't fully recall some of the reasons give by some Asian and Black contributors as to why they felt excluded or uncomfortable.

You and I know they shouldn't.

[Bobbisox1]

It’s getting beyond silly now Webbs

[LadyCG]

Another day, another insanity.

[royfromaus]

They've certainly got a point. Why can't BAME stay in the inner city where they belong?

[andy-hughes]

Well, if you will read stuff on Twitface ...

[douglas9401]

On my travels north every week I see many, many carloads of Asian looking families standing in the many lay-bys using the Highland scenery as a backdrop for their photos.

No colour bar at Drumochter Pass.

[woofgang]

yes its been discussed before on Countryfile. So far as I recall when it was on before it was about a group who were encouraging Asian women in cities in the Midlands to go out to rural places local to them. I am white English and I do know that when I have gone on holiday to places in the UK, I have definitely felt unwelcome....kind of a "give us your money and bog off" attitude. We aren't hooligans or snobs, we take our rubbish home, don't laugh at the locals or speed down country lanes. I could imagine feeling even less welcome if my skin wasn't the right colour.

[Mamyalynne]

It's nothing to do with Twitter nor is it new.

I found this an interesting read (From 2009), part humour but not all and though it explains how some see it I can't say it leads me to any clear decision.

Most likely as I am neither Black or Asian.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9Q8-xdS6nlcJ:https://www.sathnam.com/countryside-racist/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

[Togo]

//many in Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups see the countryside as being a white environment//

Of course they do. After all there is no "countryside" in Africa or Asia. Even less where the "minority effnic groups " come from. Ever likely be a bit..... ooo it's scarey. Mind you in Wales everybody had better watch out if the go upsetting the sheep or trampling the daffs and leeks that grow everywhere.

[jackthehat]

A black presenter pops up on a BBC programme in the hopes of persuading more BAME people into the British countryside .......and you decide to accuse both the countryside and the BBC of being racist?

How strange....

[woofgang]

douglas, yes. We always felt welcome in the borders and in Scotland, less so in Devon and Cornwall. I know people wo are native to the west Country and they too comment on the attitude of some of their countrymen and women to the tourists who provide them them a living.

[Bobbisox1]

Likewise North Wales in my own experience

[Mamyalynne]

The Mosaic Model is one of a few set up by Natural England in 2013 to address these issues.

Lots of reading on that and other initiatives here.

http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/10382390

[woofgang]

That's what I remember from Countryside, Mamya, that Mosaic project.