If your daughter gets a first class degree from a good uni I’d expect she’d be well placed for success.How funny I’d never have though of private school as a way of avoiding various ethnicities, more a way of avoiding benefit/working class white people
Amol Rajan from the One Show did a documentary “How to break into the elite” which explained far better than I could to my 12ish daughter at the time that telling working class intelligent kids like her to work hard get you a grades and your first class degree ( and shit ton of debt) and the world is your oyster is very untrue sadly
But if you’re working class savvy with a bit of money to put your kids in private to mix with the very middle class families I’m sure in parts of the country that’s a no brainer
The reason I asked that in the 2020 Independent Schools Council Census reported that “the proportion of minority ethnic pupils continues to increase, showing that ISC schools reflect the overall diversity of the UK student population. In 2020, 34.9% were identified as minority ethnic, whereas in 2021, the proportion had risen to 35.1%.”Independent schools reflect UK's ethnic mix, data shows
One in four pupils at independent schools in the UK is from a minority ethnic background and 5% are from overseas, Independent Schools Council data suggests.www.google.co.uk
if you have a look at this article, it shows that the proportion of non-white pupils in private schools is 25%, or it was back in 2012 when the article was written. According to the 2011 census, there was around 12% non white people living in the U.K.
So the proportion of ethnic minorities in private schools is actually higher than the general population. Or it was a few years ago, can’t imagine the data has changed drastically in a few years
100% if everyone had the same amount of money there would still be racism. 100%.I apologize in advance if I'll put my foot in my mouth massively but I have a question regarding the ethnicities/social class topic. Please ignore if you think it's too off topic. I always thought racism is more of an effect that comes from said class division. Like it's less about the colour of your skin and more about the inside of your purse, do you know what I mean? That what we perceive as racism is more about classism. Of course here one can argue that dark skinned people for example earn automatically less money than white people hence it's a self driving circle. What if everyone had the same amount of money, would there still be racism? Probably. I could be totally off and English is not my mother language, please don't tear me to shreds I don't mean any harm.
PS: These boots look completely ridiculous,Fleur, get it together.
That would be lovely though I feel like she’s going to benefit equally from us 1st generation working class uni parents who haven’t done so well as our parents were utterly clueless bless them and didn’t have any spare cash to help to establish careers even in the smallest of waysIf your daughter gets a first class degree from a good uni I’d expect she’d be well placed for success.
Yes, exactly this. You cannot talk about the US/UK and race/class as though they're the same – the US and UK are structured in totally different ways when it comes to race and class. And both topics are way more complex than the colour of someone's skin or how much money they have.I think our country as a whole has a huge problem with class divide. I don’t think America has the same class structure as us, there it’s just rich/middle/poor, and you can move up and down the levels if you increase your income. Our class system has many more intricacies, it’s not as simple as earn more and you find yourself middle class. I find it very interesting.
Agreed. I actually like the pink dress she posted yesterday but I don't know why she thinks she looks edgy or even at all good wearing it with those combat boots. Hideous. Even someone edgy wouldn't be able to pull it off, the dress is just too feminine and dainty looking.I can’t decide who is worse at styling themselves. Fleur or her sister. It’s a close call.
She wishes.View attachment 631525I’ve found Fleur’s inspiration for this outfit - knew I’d seen it somewhere before!
Nooooo don’t lump the legendary Vilanelle in with her!View attachment 631525I’ve found Fleur’s inspiration for this outfit - knew I’d seen it somewhere before!
Agree, I think it's beautiful. But why is she storing books under the sink like that?! And in a kids room too?I actually think it’s quite nice. I know what you mean that it’s nicer to be seen. But people change their room decor every few years, this way they’ll always keep this, no matter what is chose for the rest of the room.
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