Britain|In Britain, many people from ethnic minorities are driven by a desire to succeed. Highly educated non-whites have found their political home in conservatives.
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A think tank in London studied the political attitudes of Britain’s ethnic minorities.
Highly educated non-white Britons tend to vote Conservative.
The highly educated part of the white population, on the other hand, has moved politically to the left.
The Conservative Party’s base of supporters now consists of affluent minorities and less educated whites.
The majority of Britons belonging to ethnic minorities still prefer non-right-wing parties.
The person ethnic background affects his political preferences and voting behavior, according to a recent study by a prestigious British think tank statement.
Highly educated non-white Britons with an immigrant background are relatively more likely to vote for the Conservatives, i.e. the right wing.
For the white population, the development has been the opposite.
Over the past twenty years, the highly educated white population has shifted politically to the left. At the same time, less educated whites have tended to vote conservative.
Britain’s the attitudes of ethnic minorities have been investigated by the UK in a Changing Europe think-tank (UKICE), which operates in connection with King’s College London.
The report (Minorities Report: The Attitudes of Britain’s Ethnic Minority Population), the British Conservative Party’s supporters increasingly consist of two groups: wealthy minority representatives and less educated whites.
The result can be cross-talk within the party.
The phenomenon can also be seen in the current leadership race of the Conservative Party.
“According to opinion polls, the early favorite is Kemi Badenochwho is black”, a researcher who is one of the authors of the report James Kanagasooriam said on Tuesday at the online meeting of the think tank.
Badenoch’s highly educated parents are originally from Nigeria.
Former minister Kemi Badenoch is in the final race when the members of the Conservative Party choose their new leader. The winner will be announced at the beginning of November.
On the other hand, the outgoing leader of the Conservative Party and the former Prime Minister of Great Britain is Rishi Sunakwhose parents have roots in India. Sunak is an actively practicing Hindu.
Indeed, there are many British Hindus who belong to the country in the Conservative Party electorate to the most educated to the population.
In the Labor Party (i.e. in Labour) the situation is the opposite:
Prime minister Keir Starmer’s led by centre-left Labor attracts educated whites as well as less educated immigrants.
So why is the Conservative Party interested in educated minorities? One reason may be the ethos of success.
When the researchers asked about people’s wishes for their own children, one difference caught their eye.
“White people were very inclined to want their children to be happy. For the minorities, the answer was different: they wanted their children to succeed in life,” Kanagasooriam said.
The researcher estimates that many of the minorities go to university to study their ideal field for fun. The goal of minority youth is different: they want to go to university to succeed, that is, to earn more than their parents and to rise in the class hierarchy.
However, the majority of Britons belonging to ethnic minorities still vote for parties other than right-wing parties, the study reminds.
Conservative politician Rishi Sunak was Britain’s first prime minister from an ethnic minority.
Ethnic and religious minorities are not a unified group, however.
For example, British Muslims are clearly less educated than, say, Hindus, Jews and Buddhists.
According to the survey, the political, economic and other values of British Muslims are indeed very different from, for example, British voters of Indian and Chinese background.
British Muslims tend to vote for the Labor Party, or the left. Among British Hindus, one can reportedly feel that the Labor Party favors Muslims.
However, in the British general election in July, many Muslim voters rejected the Labor Party because of its policies on Gaza. The disappointed moved behind the independent candidates and the Greens.
British Labor leader Keir Starmer’s Gaza policies ate up British Muslim votes in the July general election. However, Labor won the election resoundingly and came into government after a gap of more than fourteen years.
In research it also emerged that religiosity is important to many representatives of ethnic minorities.
“It was also surprising that… [uskonnon] the meaning is not diluted over time”, the researcher Sophie Stowers quoth.
Often, the young generation also considers themselves religious.
According to the study, ethnic minority Muslims were the most likely to view their religion as a fundamental part of their identity.
Religiosity however, does not necessarily make the voter a value conservative. For example, Hindus and Sikhs tend to be more liberal even without religion.
In matters of values, the most conservative are Muslims and – both white and non-white – Christians. Muslim respondents had a particularly negative attitude towards the rights of sexual and gender minorities.
In economic matters, on the other hand, very religious voters and Muslims find their political home most often on the left – as do non-religious voters.
Conservatives parties in different countries have already realized that ethnic minorities can gain new voters.
Often this has been related to so-called woke topics such as, for example, sex education in schools and the rights of trans people, the researcher Zain Mohyuddin said at a UKICE webinar.
In Canada, for example, attitudes towards immigration have hardened. This also applies to those who are former immigrants themselves.
“The Liberals are perceived as the party of open immigration,” Mohyuddin said.
The turning of people with an immigrant background into critics of immigration can also be seen in Britain.
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