General Chat

just put pinky/white.......or leave blank and any other that I feel is un--important to the situation.

Surely you came from under a Gooseberry Bush the same as everyone else. :-D :-D :-D :-D

O Bless me little <3 trust me to get things up side down and the rong way round :-D

Shelley love - it was a joke to BC. Don't worry about it.

i wouldent want any one to think thay know my ethnicity country of origin
ether just by looking at me as thay would get it rong as i dont look like what i am

my childrens friends are away asking them were dus your mum come from lol
people ask hubby the same he now say you find out then let me know

I think most of the questions on these forms are just to collate a lot of meaningless info for the Government, :-S Or, to find employment for the people who manufacture the little tick boxes on the forms. :-D :-D :-D

Oh well sorry I had a little joke with BC - at least I join in on other threads!!

'Black' is a race? :-S

I have to add here that if somebody was to look at one of my great nieces they would assume she is caucasian (white). Her father is Morroccan and his mother was black although he is white also. You cannot tell by just looking.

Whether anyone chooses to answer or not answer questions on a form is up to them, and I defend the right to not answer....but if they then don't feel that services in the area
( whether that is in hospital, town planning blah blah) match up to their needs then perhaps they won't complain either. (EDIT That is most emphatically NOT having a go at BC !)

When my mum was in hospital I was asked her religion...was that an invasion of privacy..or an act designed to provide a service to her which she couldn't ask for herself ? I guess it depends on ones perspective.

I certainly don't want someone to assume they know my ethnicity, country of origin ( or allegiance!) just by looking at me!

Well BC me dear, I can't even see you but have a pretty good idea which etnic group you belong to! Was the nurse wearing a blindfold? :-S :-0
I was rather hoping you'd said Banterloonie. Hmmm.....memo to moi :-D


These groupings are so broad anyway, as someone has said 'asian' covers an extremely broad area and I think the sickle cell 'reason' is a red herring.

I suppose I am used to having to put my nationality on forms here so I wouldn't mind putting my ethnic group either if I had to and have done in England.

I once answered a survey in UK about what foods I bought and objected to revealing if I owned or rented my house, whether or not I was the bread winner and approximately how much was my salary

Wendy

I don't really mind being asked my ethnic background, my latest bugbear is being asked my email address. The last time I went to buy a car I answered all the questions until the young man asked for my email. I declined and the sod got up and said that he would have to speak to the manager.

Needless to say when I finally decided a few weeks later I went to another salesman, nearer my age I must add, who explained the reasoning and then proceeded without the said information. -jl

Yes, Cat, I was upset because my rights were challenged :-( But it has been interesting to read of other people's take on form filling. Thanks for input everyone. BC XX

The point of this thread is that when BC said she would prefer not to answer that particular question the nurse got annoyed with her.

I usually do tick the relevant boxes but will also exercise my right not to if I so wish and should be able to do so without someone getting annoyed with me.

for what ever resion this info is used for on forms im proud of who i am
there for i dont mind putting down my ethnic group

When i was a national service man at our induction was a large blackboard with all suggestions for answering that question.bearing in mind that there were not so many ethnic minorities in the UK at the time.1959.........the possibles were

British/ English

Brit/ Eng

British Welsh

Brit/Welsh

British/Irish

Brit/ Irish

and British/Scots

Brit/ Scot
I was then,

and still am.............Brit/Eng.


there were a few oddballs there like from liverpool, manchester,London and some from the channel isles.....dunno what bracket THEY fitted into.......LOL

I just put a dash against the question and it's not yet been queried. Will probably be down to some jobsworth in the national health service/Whitehall. Filing / sorting the data will keep a large number of people in a less than useful job.
When I was a policeman, we had several such stupid?questions on forms from our home Office masters - I remember on stolen car reports, in effect, they wanted to know how many blue ford Escorts were stolen on a Wednesday, against yellow ones on a Thursday.

Great long forms which had morphed from single sheets.

Feel better for that.

Happy days

I get very annoyed, does it realy matter? I also get annoyed with the police if I'm reporting an incident. The question always asked is what colour were they, not how were they dressed. My retort is I don't care if they are sky blue pink with yellow spots and go on to described what they were wearing. However , they always ask the question again. Elaine :-|

Dear Gwyn In Kent

Hello

What a terrible shock for your mother-in-law to hear that over the telephone.

I don't think these people realise the distress they cause when they make mistakes like this.

Okay, it turned out allright but if your father-in-law had not been at home.
What a bunch of idiots.

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
EOS
xx

Where is the box for 'mongrel' ? ;-)