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I don’t think anyone identifies as BAME - there isn’t one homegenous experience. If you mean i.e black, just say black. 1/2 https://twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1275677000884256768
2/2 Only ever seen this used as a media shorthand or when organisations present statistics about “BAME” people, which unhelpfully often masks the differences in outcome between ethnic groups or allows them to appear more diverse than they actually are.
Example - “BAME” people now make up 22% of students at Oxford University (above proportion in the population). However, only 3.1% are black, meaning this specific group is still underrepresented. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/23/bame-students-make-up-one-fifth-of-new-oxford-undergraduates
This is an interesting article by @Nadine_Writes and worth a read: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/javid-and-patel-face-bame-community-backlash_uk_5d39d188e4b0419fd339692e
