Completely agree with John. Relatedly, and maybe I am being over-sensitive, but I feel like the 'Rishi Sunak is a technocrat' is a kind of benign racism among upper middle class racism, like, you see an Asian guy with a suit and a neat haircut and you go 'oh, yeah, we've got one of those at work'.
100%, and I fully agree that bringing in Hendy to the DfT as a transport ops expert with a lot of industry goodwill is going to hugely help the DfT deal with the transition it's already de-facto made to running services, badly, under a government that specifically didn't want it to
'A kind of benign racism among upper middle class racism' should be 'among upper middle class PROFESSIONALS' sorry. Like, what you mean is that he faintly looks like your brother in law Vijay who actually *is* competent and across the detail.
No, that's a stereotype about a different group of Asians. This is I think about a general 'my doctor/my dentist/my pharmacist/the guy on the trading floor is a well-spoken Indian'.
as a white Eastern European immigrant I'd greatly appreciate your help
I don't know most of the stereotypes and frankly OFCOM can tell me all the slurs but that's not enough
Haha from my 2nd generation experience, the rough and ready stereotype is that Tamil/south Indians would be better, and doesn't matter as much the further north you go
I did a physics undergraduate, neuroscience PhD and then became a software engineer - honestly if I packed it all in to become a doctor I reckon my mother would prefer that, no matter how much my quality of life went down 🫠
Hah, well, precisely, I think it runs 'British Asians are doctors - doctors are good at maths' whereas I think the US stereotype just runs 'Asians are good at maths'.
Potentially also due to maths being easier for the combined immigrant parent+child unit to compete on relative to other subjects like English/history, although this is not brown British Asian specific
