"Just a point of clarification: it is not the case that all non-white people are called blacks in the UK. Non-white people are grouped as either Black, Asian (unlike the US, 'Asian' refers to Pakistan/India or Bangladesh in the UK), Chinese or 'mixed race'. Personally, I have never heard - to take a simple example - of someone of Pakistani origin being called 'black'."
Joe Wanzala wrote: In the UK the term 'black' has historically been the term used by the establishment to refer to all people in the UK from the (former) colonies. It is the equivalent of the term 'people of color' is the US. I provide two examples below from British publications showing Asians being referred to as 'black'. To be sure, this terminology is used more among politicized people, but the second source I used below is in the a health rather a political context.
http://www.newint.org/issue145/mask.htm As the black activist A. Sivanandan (who is from Sri Lanka) has written: ‘Just to learn about other people’s cultures, though, is not to learn about the racism of one’s own. To learn about the racism of one’s own culture, on the other hand, is to approach other cultures objectively.’ (Roots of Racism, Institute of Race Relations, 1982).
What are the issues for South Asian people in relation to mental health? Asian people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh make up the largest black groupings in Britain.
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