11-12-2020, 09:49 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/n...ing-equals
The term BAME can be insulting and should be retired from use, a survey of UK sporting organisations has found.
BAME, which stands for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic, has become a default phrase to describe any non-white person or group. But the term “places recognition on some communities whilst ignoring others entirely” and does not allow for “ethnic and cultural complexities”, according to Sporting Equals, which commissioned the study.
Sporting Equals advocates greater ethnic diversity within sport and counts over 200 grassroots groups, representing 150,000 people, among its members. Its survey found widespread discontent with the use of BAME and, when other options were presented, a preference for the phrase “ethnically diverse communities” when speaking broadly, and specific, relevant language when describing an individual community or person.
Can't say I'm massively surprised. About a year ago, we had a thread about how 98% of Hispanics rejected the term 'Latinx', and this seems to be the same kind of thing.
And, honestly... I've never liked the term 'BAME'. It's lumping together all kinds of different ethnic groups which have little in common with one another - making it so broad that nobody is really able to identify with it. (Indeed, as with 'Latinx', it just seems to something that's been imposed on them from the outside ...)
The term BAME can be insulting and should be retired from use, a survey of UK sporting organisations has found.
BAME, which stands for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic, has become a default phrase to describe any non-white person or group. But the term “places recognition on some communities whilst ignoring others entirely” and does not allow for “ethnic and cultural complexities”, according to Sporting Equals, which commissioned the study.
Sporting Equals advocates greater ethnic diversity within sport and counts over 200 grassroots groups, representing 150,000 people, among its members. Its survey found widespread discontent with the use of BAME and, when other options were presented, a preference for the phrase “ethnically diverse communities” when speaking broadly, and specific, relevant language when describing an individual community or person.
Can't say I'm massively surprised. About a year ago, we had a thread about how 98% of Hispanics rejected the term 'Latinx', and this seems to be the same kind of thing.
And, honestly... I've never liked the term 'BAME'. It's lumping together all kinds of different ethnic groups which have little in common with one another - making it so broad that nobody is really able to identify with it. (Indeed, as with 'Latinx', it just seems to something that's been imposed on them from the outside ...)
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