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Covid Briefings- Institutional Racism
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Just heard an interesting interview on the radio with Professor Bhopal who was saying how we need action now not more research and talking on institutional racism and the effects of Covid on people from BAME groups. When asked to give an example of institutional racism he cited the daily Covid briefings which are aimed at educated English speaking white people. He said they should be done in a variety of languages- say a minute in a Urdu then a minute in another language, then another. My first thought was to dismiss it- but he has a point doesn't he? Maybe leave the briefings as they are but occasionally have a respected person from alternative communities speaking in Arabic or Urdu or Chinese or Jamaican patois so the messages can get to more sections of the population. At least the Gov.uk website Covid pages should be available in say 10 different languages and the 2m signs should be in different lanuages. Should we go further?
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92% of the UK population has English as its first language. 98% of the UK population can read, understand and speak English. less than 1 million have no grasp of the language. the most spoken of other languages are Welsh and Polish (1.7% and 1%) although i can't find any figures for the number that speak only those languages and have no English. it would be a fair assumption that welsh-only speakers would be in Wales, and they have their own national briefing. of the Polish people I've come across, none have no grasp of English. to broadcast in any other language would be for the benefit of a tiny minority.
92% of the UK population has English as its first language. 98% of the UK population can read, understand and speak English. less than 1 million have no grasp of the language. the most spoken of other languages are Welsh and Polish (1.7% and 1%) although i can't find any figures for the number that speak only those languages and have no English. it would be a fair assumption that welsh-only speakers would be in Wales, and they have their own national briefing. of the Polish people I've come across, none have no grasp of English. to broadcast in any other language would be for the benefit of a tiny minority.
*Thanks* for clarifying the name ff, Kalwant Bhopal is a specialist on "white privilege" so I wrongly thought it her.
It looks as if Prof Raj Bhopal (CBE) was on R4 'World at One' on June 16th and Listen Again only goes back to 1st July, but the gist of your OP can be gleaned from his words from https:/ /www.bb c.co.uk /news/u k-53065 306
One option would be listening to Covid-19 Government Briefing BBC on youtube and going Setting>Subtitles>Auto-translate and scroll down for the language, Chinese (various forms) and Urdu are there, NO Jamaican. I have no idea how quick they appear up on youtube, but Johnson's Jul 17, 2020 one is there:
It looks as if Prof Raj Bhopal (CBE) was on R4 'World at One' on June 16th and Listen Again only goes back to 1st July, but the gist of your OP can be gleaned from his words from https:/
One option would be listening to Covid-19 Government Briefing BBC on youtube and going Setting>Subtitles>Auto-translate and scroll down for the language, Chinese (various forms) and Urdu are there, NO Jamaican. I have no idea how quick they appear up on youtube, but Johnson's Jul 17, 2020 one is there:
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