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Is Bristol a safe city?

Bristol....Is it a racist city?

  • I've visited Bristol a few times and think it's a great city, and have recently applied for a position advertised for a post there. However, I'm concerned that when I've told friends and colleagues about my possible move they've all said Birstol is really racist. When I've visited Bristol, I was surprised by the amount of white people:-but then I come from a very diverse city in the midlands that is known for being multi-cultural so I assumed that's probably just how other cities were. I didn't feel like I got any funny looks or anything....but then again, I'm Euroasian and only mid toned so a lot of people assume I'm either maybe Spanish/Italian, half thai or even just a dark featured white person (so maybe that's why I didn't get any looks/comments). People have told me that it's a deeper kind of racism there, more institutionalized. I am worried as my potential job would involve dealing with the public so any racist attitudes among the general public would affect me. But then it could all be untrue. People of Bristol, what do you think?

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    Bristol is a racist city. No questions asked.

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I don't think they are :/

Holly Myles

Well are you Muslim? do you wear any religion garments? do you have a ******* beard? If not nearly everyone will treat you fine, if you answered yes to these questions , I won't lie you may face a bit of trouble like you would in any other city , due to the growing discontent with Muslims and their culture in this country. People won't want to here that, but its fact.

You were "surprised by the number of white people"? How so? Whereas we welcome our bother and sister from The Caribbean and various African countries, the fact remains that for hundreds of years, Britain had an almost exclusively white population.

Ed Fox

They are only racist to those who are non-whites, so for your safety don't go there

I lived in Bristol for 9 years and it certainly wasn't racist in the 80's.

Alan W

It could be that your friends are remembering the BBC Panorama programme from 2009 called 'Hate on the Doorstep' where an Asian couple of undercover reporters posed as residents on the Southmead Estate in Bristol for a couple of months and secretly filmed incidents of racist abuse towards them. I watched it and my impression was that they were subtly provoking the abuse to some extent. There was a lot of discussion about it afterwards on forums and many residents on the Southmead Estate were absolutely furious and thought it was very biased and didn't give a balanced picture of the estate at all and that racist incidents were much rarer than the programme suggested. This might help you decide because you can look up these discussions on the programme and the subsequent debates about racism in Bristol, there's one here for instance:

Back to the drawing board

It has a high population of immigrants and me and my mate like to play spot the White person there xD

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