Post by Max on Oct 3, 2020 14:28:24 GMT
Actual true UK statistics:-
Age wise we have a population where 18% are under 15 and similar % are over 65.
Between 5% and 20% of women doing top jobs with only about 1% being ‘of colour’.
Race is 87% white, 3% are black, around 2% Asian, 2% Pakistani, 2% mixed and further 4% other.
Around 20% are disabled, 20%-30% are obese, 20% have mental health issues, around 5% are gay and 0.01% of the UK population are transgender.
Religion is said to be 60% Christian, 4% Muslim, 1% Hindu and around 30% of no religion.
These actual statistics might surprise many because I’ve found it funny in recent years as we see the UK ‘entertainment’ industry’s agenda to mislead the public and create an illusion much twisted from the true facts. Be it reality, news, weather, documentaries, lifestyles, consumer, comedy, drama, soaps and anything else that I am referring to but also UK press/tabloid/magazine articles and features.
Somewhere there is someone part of the process of making these shows and editing the media whose remit must be to ‘tick all the boxes’ for the sake of demographic thoroughness. This will have justified as being for diversity, inclusivity and whatever other ‘buzzword’ gets this type of people feeling necessary.
My point is that in order to get so many minority groups included they have skewed the numbers to proportions not even close to being representative. Ticking all the boxes has made a farce of the UK’s true demographics.
‘Reality’ TV seems flooded with way more than 5% of LGBGT and celebrities with mental health battles appears to be close to 100%. Interesting just how few obese and disabled people are on TV or photographed for media articles.
I am fully aware that in decades gone by there was a TV misrepresentation of old Britain being almost 100% white presenters from public schools in all the top jobs which was also wrong. For me there was much needed and a long overdue shift required to get away from all that. Now it’s gone as bad as the white upper-class example of years earlier. It all seems to have happened extremely quickly and is now massively unreflective of the true demographics.
For example I absolutely love the new season of Doctor Who and all her brilliant gang, (finally) it’s a woman in the top job and two of her three sidekicks are ethnic minorities. See what I mean?
It’s a bit like the last few years the coverage and articles focussing by TV & media would have us all believe the high street is dead because we all shop on line. The truth is only 10%-15% of us shop online.
Most of us are not fooled by the illusion and it is real shame that some people have agendas to dictate and ‘force’ an artificial vision nowhere close to the reality.
I would prefer to see and read a more honest reflection of our society rather than politically correct myths.
Age wise we have a population where 18% are under 15 and similar % are over 65.
Between 5% and 20% of women doing top jobs with only about 1% being ‘of colour’.
Race is 87% white, 3% are black, around 2% Asian, 2% Pakistani, 2% mixed and further 4% other.
Around 20% are disabled, 20%-30% are obese, 20% have mental health issues, around 5% are gay and 0.01% of the UK population are transgender.
Religion is said to be 60% Christian, 4% Muslim, 1% Hindu and around 30% of no religion.
These actual statistics might surprise many because I’ve found it funny in recent years as we see the UK ‘entertainment’ industry’s agenda to mislead the public and create an illusion much twisted from the true facts. Be it reality, news, weather, documentaries, lifestyles, consumer, comedy, drama, soaps and anything else that I am referring to but also UK press/tabloid/magazine articles and features.
Somewhere there is someone part of the process of making these shows and editing the media whose remit must be to ‘tick all the boxes’ for the sake of demographic thoroughness. This will have justified as being for diversity, inclusivity and whatever other ‘buzzword’ gets this type of people feeling necessary.
My point is that in order to get so many minority groups included they have skewed the numbers to proportions not even close to being representative. Ticking all the boxes has made a farce of the UK’s true demographics.
‘Reality’ TV seems flooded with way more than 5% of LGBGT and celebrities with mental health battles appears to be close to 100%. Interesting just how few obese and disabled people are on TV or photographed for media articles.
I am fully aware that in decades gone by there was a TV misrepresentation of old Britain being almost 100% white presenters from public schools in all the top jobs which was also wrong. For me there was much needed and a long overdue shift required to get away from all that. Now it’s gone as bad as the white upper-class example of years earlier. It all seems to have happened extremely quickly and is now massively unreflective of the true demographics.
For example I absolutely love the new season of Doctor Who and all her brilliant gang, (finally) it’s a woman in the top job and two of her three sidekicks are ethnic minorities. See what I mean?
It’s a bit like the last few years the coverage and articles focussing by TV & media would have us all believe the high street is dead because we all shop on line. The truth is only 10%-15% of us shop online.
Most of us are not fooled by the illusion and it is real shame that some people have agendas to dictate and ‘force’ an artificial vision nowhere close to the reality.
I would prefer to see and read a more honest reflection of our society rather than politically correct myths.