The National Trust has been branded “racist, ignorant, divisive and patronising” amid a backlash for replacing the term ‘ethnic minority’ with ‘global majority’ as it launched an ‘inclusive’ walking project. The Telegraph has the story.
The move has prompted accusations of “virtue-signalling” in the latest in a series of rows that have led to claims of a “woke agenda” at the conservation charity.
The trust has defended its use of the term, saying it felt it was the “most appropriate” language to describe its Walk Together Pathway project, which trains new walk leaders representing different ethnic minority groups.
‘Global majority’ is a collective term for non-white people, who make up about 85% of the global population. It is sometimes used instead of ‘ethnic minority’ or ‘BAME’ – terms which have been labelled outdated and problematic.
The Government dropped the use of the term BAME, which stands for black, Asian and minority ethnic, in 2022, saying the term was “no longer helpful”.
Proponents of the term global majority have said moving from classing people as a minority to a majority is an important step in “reframing conversations from disadvantage to advantage” and “challenging existing dominant white-centric narratives”.
Zewditu Gebreyohanes, a trustee at the V&A, condemned the National Trust in a post on X (formerly Twitter), saying: “Disgusting to see the National Trust using this sort of language.
“The use of the term ‘global majority’ to lump together everyone who is not ‘white’ as a singular grouping is one of the most racist, ignorant, divisive and patronising examples of virtue signalling.”
Ed Rimmer, Conservative councillor for Bemerton Heath in Salisbury, also commented, saying: “The National Trust is most certainly not working to safeguard our national heritage.”
It comes after Wildlife and Countryside Link, a charity umbrella group, claimed the British countryside was a “racist colonial” white space earlier this year.
Announcing the new project on its website earlier this week, the National Trust said: “Despite representing 15% of the population in England and Wales, people from the global majority are widely under-represented in the outdoors, accounting for only one per cent of National Park visitors in 2019.”
It claims there is a “lack of representation” of ethnic minorities in the outdoors, “which leads to the feeling that they might not be welcome in outdoor spaces, as well as fear of discrimination and cultural differences.”
Worth reading in full.
Read Steven Tucker’s dissection of the rise of the insidious anti-white term ‘global majority’ here.
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There is no question that the left take the language battleground very seriously. I would say it is one of their most important fronts. They know that if they control language they control the minds of people.
Growing up in the Brecon Beacons was a great place to be. Remember they wanted to change the name from ‘Beacons’ because that represented fire, therefore ‘carbon’ god forbid. They are deranged!
The Brecon Beacons have been renamed, just not by the National disgrace (sorry Trust). It’s now named after a 4th or 5th century Welsh king who probably oppressed women in his kingdom and may well of held slaves but he wasn’t English so these things can be overlooked.
Absolutely.
Stopped my membership years ago. Hit these people in the pocket, it’s the only thing they understand.
It is called National Trust, not Global Trust.
If they mean non-white they should say non-white, although that does seem rather racist.
A global majority is that group containing Indonesian billionaires, enslaved Congolese cobalt miners, Arab princes, Chinese astronauts and UK Prime-ministers. Or do they simply mean everyone who doesn’t pay for the National Trust?
Why do they need to say either in any material degree. The properties were built by, designed by, financed by and owned by, decorated by, furnished by and donated by and visited largely by – errr English, Welsh etc white Brits.
Aren’t Whites, globally, in the UK 85% of the population, and outside a few ghetto cities and towns, almost 100% White?
So White is the global majority in the UK.
The War on the West and the Original Sin —Whiteness.
Our original sin is to have been immensely successful as a race/ethnic group in building great civilisations, cultures, material wealth, art etc. More successful than all the others.
Yes but now it is time for what can only be described as “revenge”.
It’s much simpler. The aptly named US democ-rats need the votes of sizable majority of black people in the USA. Hence, they’re seeking to inflame racial tensions by peddling interracial hatred. In the usual manner, this spills over into the various US satellite states, both the voluntary (UK) and involuntary (Germany) ones.
It has replaced a useful concept (“Which non-majority people-groups visiting our properties may need special provision and services?”) with a racist and meaningless one (whoever it might be that constitutes most of the world but not most of our patch, nor a whole bunch of non-Anglophone, non-Anglo-saxon-celtic-scandinavians who are just as much minorities as anyone for the purposes of the NT).
Here’s a gratis clue for the National Trust: Town dwellers are ‘underpresented’ in the countryside because they’re not living there, regardless of the colour of their skin.
“Zewditu Gebreyohanes, a trustee at the V&A (diversity hire appointed by Boris Johnson), condemned the National Trust…”
What a hypocrite that Ethiopian woman is, condemning the use of “Global Majority” for “lumping together everyone who is not white”, when she herself would describe herself as a “Person of Colour”, lumping together everyone on the planet who is not white, which is 93% of humanity. She also comes from the East African group of lighter-skinned Arabic/Africans who have traditionally scorned and oppressed dark-skinned Africans in a “racist” manner.
“Global Majority” is the fashionable new jargon word for “People of Colour”, and many Third World ethnics do not like the new term, because it exposes their fraudulent claims of perpetual victimhood as “minorities”.
Ethnic Europeans should welcome the new term, because it correctly describes our true situation as The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group.
The “Greens” are always worrying about providing “safe havens” for endangered species, so let’s start reminding them that The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group is also endangered, and needs “safe havens” of our own to survive.
Agree – why the downticks folks?
Downticks by Communists and Third World Ethnics, of whom “godknowsimgood” is one—quite possibly the Ethiopian woman herself. Who else would bother to look through all her tweets to find the one she quotes below?
‘What a hypocrite that Ethiopian woman is, condemning the use of “Global Majority” for “lumping together everyone who is not white”, when she herself would describe herself as a “Person of Colour”, lumping together everyone on the planet who is not white…‘
No, she is not a hypocrite, and no, she would not describe herself as a “Person of Colour”. You made an assumption about her without any evidence. Here is what she has said on Twitter:
https://x.com/zewditweets/status/1790791861889622256
‘Of course I would object to the also horrible phrase “people of colour”. What does that make everyone else? Colourless?
As I’ve said elsewhere, why are we still transfixed with skin colour in the 21st century? How backwards. How sad to be undoing the progress made.’
Fair point. I just think the National Trust should just get back to providing care for historical buildings like in the old days and bin this cancerous Woke ideology.
“Progress”, you say? The Great Replacement is “progress”?
Just like you, the Ethiopian woman is trying to act like a spokesperson for white people, like the Indian Braverman and the Nigerian Badenoch. As Badenoch said, she was proud to be part of “The Project that is Great Britain”. The project is The Great Replacement.
As someone said of the Third World Invaders in the West,
“They come here with one aim: to install themselves and their offspring into the ruling class.”
Let Ethnic Europeans speak for themselves.
Yup and would be happy for my taxes to towards mass deportations.
Thanks Tory PM for yet another divisive left globalist appointment to a tax payer funded instritution. Only the tax breaks created it and only they keep it going in the luxury its top board enjoy.
They could just say ‘under-represented groups’ if they want to get all nit-picky about which townies do or do not choose to visit the countryside (despite all us despicable country-dwelling melanin deficient racist colonialists). That would then also include a lot of disabled people of any shade of melanin who would love to get out into the country but have access issues.
And as a result – nothing. There will ne no change, the Board of NatTrust has become woke globalist left and it will only get worse.
I avoid its premises.
It is also very expensive and much of its buildings are closed off to the paying public for use by staff.
I think the National Trust has lost all national trust. The woke mind virus will do that.
Speaking of which, I see Brighton has a new Muslim mayor. I’m sure he was selected ( voted? ) because he was the best candidate for the job.🤥 Perhaps he’s got something extra special up his sleeve to celebrate Pride month this year..😶🌈👬
Perhaps the new muslim mayor will provide a public demonstration of how gays are “looked after” in muzzy societies once identified.
Does it not occur to them that “the global majority” just are not interested in going? Why do they even feel that equality needs to label everyone? Surely, if we are all equal, none of us need a label. I also object quite strongly to being termed “white”, I’m not, very, very few actually are and they have a skin pigmentation issue. People like those (middle-class white no doubt) who think up things like this are the problem.
Gosh! So we’re punching above our weight.
Ethnic minorities in the UK overwhelmingly live in cities and large towns.
With the Climate Change fanatics in the Establishment making it increasingly expensive and incredibly difficult to travel anywhere by car, and the rail unions making rail travel unaffordable and frequently impossible I’m curious to know how the National Travesty thinks ethnic minorities are supposed to get to the National Parks and properties they (supposedly) care for?
As an alternative to joining or supporting the National Travesty, check out Historic Houses …. cheaper, independent, a co-operative of privately-owned properties which are being preserved by their owners …… and don’t seek to impose woke “values” on you.
https://www.historichouses.org/
I wonder if the real reason our 15% “global majority” avoid outfits like the National Trust and similar simply because they have no inherent interest in these places. It’s not as if there are many ethnics who would feel any affiliation with British history is it? Why would someone with a Pakistani background have the slightest interest in Henry VIII for example? And as for his six brides, well that would just be seen as par for the course.
Let’s cut the intellectual theorising – the global majority have no interest in our history because it means nothing to them.
It’s a bit like asking why honkies like me don’t show any interest in things like Eid or Diwali – its because they mean F A and to make matters worse you can’t get a taxi to the pub because they are all laid up waiting for the takeaways to open. Proper buggers up our boozing routines. How is that showing gratitude to your hosts?
Good god! I misread ‘walk’ for ‘woke’!!! LOL. Well, by the time Lab gets into power, whites will be the minority and the Muslims will be the majority.
The definition of racism is to categorise people by skin colour – putting all skin colours except White into one category gets top marks.
What has the Global Majority done for us? Let’s see… for example:
The list is much longer – what where would we White folk be without the Global Majority?
The National Trust. The name says it all. It isn’t the Global Trust.
“Announcing the new project on its website earlier this week, the National Trust said: “Despite representing 15% of the population in England and Wales, people from the global majority are widely under-represented in the outdoors, accounting for only one per cent of National Park visitors in 2019.”
This is comedy surely…15%…global majority…underrepresented – absolutely…1% of visitors. Bloody hilarious. Orwell would have been proud.
Why are the indigenous population always to be blamed for the fact that ethnics do not wish to spend time in the glorious British countryside? It’s not as if we have started charging for the privilege. Yet.
Fear of cultural differences?
It’s a bit like when I go abroad and I come across some public celebration, yes I feel out of it but that doesn’t mean I cannot enjoy it.
Sitges Festival comes to mind. It means a lot to the locals and it appears to be pagan inspired and I do not understand it but as a spectacle it’s brilliant. Did the Spaniards discriminate?
NGO grifter outfits such as NT should be demolished.