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Though aggregate data is useful (so needs a functional statistical label for ethnic minority, non-white, or bme/bame), the quest for an aggregate label that reflects identity is a chimera. (This flawed proposal of 'ethnically diverse communities' reflects that). https://twitter.com/guardian_sport/status/1326970584308326401
"Ethnically diverse communities" is a rather confused/inaccurate synonym. Term does not differentiate the 8 million people who are black, Asian and mixed race from the 45 million people who are white British and the 3 million people from other white minority backgrounds.
The (diverse) mixed group is the fastest-growing segment among ethnic minorities and it is clear that will accelerate again in 2021 & the 2020s. That makes references to migrant and 'minority communities' and a community of communities model too static https://twitter.com/unherd/status/1012372692308283392?s=19
I feel the point of BAME is largely an HR intuition avoid the awkwardness of saying the word 'black' and the (fair point) imperfections of 'ethnic minority' by still using them but hiding them in an acronym.
The belated discovery in recent months that very few identify as 'BAME people' is welcome. The idea the term is offensive is rather overdoing it. There is no particular consensus for/against what is a functional category, not an identity term https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1285704219689922560?s=19
