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Originally Posted by iheartthed
The U.K. does track racial data and from an American perspective it seems more like France in terms of attitudes towards racial and interracial coupling. As of the most recent U.K. census, 2.7% of the population identifies as "British Mixed" versus 4.09% in the United States identifying as mixed. That might seem like the U.S. has more common interracial mixtures, but that would be incorrect to conclude. The U.K. is overall much whiter than the U.S. The U.K. is about 83% white according to its last census (77% British/Irish white) or 17% non-white. The U.S. is 58% white, non-Hispanic or 42% non-white (or white Hispanic). This means that close to 20% of the U.K.'s non-white population is "mixed" versus less than 10% of the U.S.'s non-white population. In fact, there are nearly as many people in the U.K. who identify as mixed (2.7%) as there are people who identify as black (3.7%).
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Not to mention that the Black population has lived in the US far longer than it has in the UK. Also not to mention that many so-called "Black" people in France/UK who come from our former colonies in the Caribbean are in fact mixed people. If they had to declare their "ethnicity" in the French census, I don't know whether they would declare it as Black or as mixed races. A mixed race person is called "Métis" in French, and it's a term often used. In slang the young people even say "tismé", I see it used often.
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