{"id":26861,"date":"2012-12-09T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26861"},"modified":"2012-12-09T23:41:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:41:36","slug":"mixed-race-brits-rising-fast-as-prejudice-wanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26861","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race Brits rising fast as prejudice wanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/news\/uk_news\/Society\/article1173053.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-race Brits rising fast as prejudice wanes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Sunday Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dipesh Gadher<\/strong>, Deputy News Editor<\/p>\n<p>MIXED-RACE Britons, epitomised by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessica_Ennis\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Ennis<\/a>, the Olympic heptathlon champion, are among the nation\u2019s fastest-growing ethnic-minority groups, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p>New data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/guide-method\/census\/2011\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2011 census<\/a> to be published on Tuesday is expected to show that at least 1m people were born to parents from different ethnicities.<\/p>\n<p>Academics believe the true number of people from a mixed-race background could be twice this amount, because many of them identified themselves in other categories, such as black or white, on census forms.<\/p>\n<p>The findings coincide with new polling that reveals only 15% of people feel uncomfortable about interracial marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, 40% of Britons expressed concerns about such relationships&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Login to read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/news\/uk_news\/Society\/article1173053.ece\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-race Brits rising fast as prejudice wanes The Sunday Times 2012-12-09 Dipesh Gadher, Deputy News Editor MIXED-RACE Britons, epitomised by Jessica Ennis, the Olympic heptathlon champion, are among the nation\u2019s fastest-growing ethnic-minority groups, according to official figures. New data from the 2011 census to be published on Tuesday is expected to show that at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,394,10],"tags":[13052,13053],"class_list":["post-26861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-dipesh-gadher","tag-the-sunday-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}