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[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

I work as a teaching assistant (in the UK) between 2 classes of 4-5 year olds, so here's their names!
I've put an * next to the names of the children who are ethnic, just so you know!


Girls
Jessica
Faye
Eve (x2)
Sofia *
Hafsah *
Sophie *
Amina *
Manpreea (She's mostly just called Prea though) *
Zahra *
Anna
Hannah
Millie
Sophya *
Jessica-Leigh
Megan
Lucy
Sarah
Zafira (zah-fee-ruh) *
Robyn
Poonam *
Zaneib *
Holly
Aiysha *
Faith
Sadie
Niamh
Amarni *
Aliza *
Ariana *

Boys
William
Rayhan *
Joseph (x2)
Naheem *
Abdullah *
Shakeel *
Ellis
Andrew
Benjamin
Zachary
Aaron
Bilaal *
Jake
Lewis (x3)
Wajaahat * (Wah-jar-hat)
Shakeeb *
Hyder *
Lennon
Nathan
Sukleen *
Ben

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Alas, "minority ethnic", often shortened to just plain "ethnic", is a phrase alive and well in UK officialdom meaning "not white-British". It makes me wince too. Everyone's "ethnic" (a member of an ethnic group), just as everyone's "coloured" (my skin isn't transparent, last I looked).


[That said, a friend teaches primary in East London and half her class aren't British by any definition. Some of them haven't lived in the country longer than six weeks; some of them won't still be here by Christmas (deportation in most cases, unfortunately). I don't imagine that's the distinction the commenter meant, but it does exist.]

[tokossel.livejournal.com]

you don't look transparent to me either! :)
i don't mind 'ethnic minority' so much, it's more straight-up, because the ethnic majority in the UK at least is white and so it would make sense that ethnic minorities be non-white. but i don't know, same thing really, it's such a broad term for so many different people.

that probably wasn't the distinction that the commenter meant. i've just met several british poonams, aiyesha's, and abdullah's. there are probably more people in UK with those names that are here to stay that people that are about to be deported, you know?