English football clubs have collectively failed to hit annual targets to improve their ethnic and gender diversity, the Football Association (FA) said on Wednesday in a report on the Football Leadership Diversity Code for the 2022-23 season.
As an Italian person who grew up in the UK it’s always really nice to see that “diversity” only includes literally two other ethnicities. Not only have me and my family faced prejudice throughout the years, but going to a multicultural school there are many other people from non-british white backgrounds who also apparently don’t matter (Polish, Irish, Portuguese etc), as well as from other non-white backgrounds from countries as varied as Perù to Lebanon, to the Philippines.
As an Italian person who grew up in the UK it’s always really nice to see that “diversity” only includes literally two other ethnicities. Not only have me and my family faced prejudice throughout the years, but going to a multicultural school there are many other people from non-british white backgrounds who also apparently don’t matter (Polish, Irish, Portuguese etc), as well as from other non-white backgrounds from countries as varied as Perù to Lebanon, to the Philippines.
I’m half Spanish. Hard agree.
I’d rather we just don’t judge anybody for it and hire on merit, please and thank you.