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  • It depends - relatively homogenous people? yeah maybe, that seems fair.

    Teachers dressing up in other cultures clothing etc to add a veneer of authenticity? Not so much.

    I tend to think that whereas the first point isn’t great, it kind of depends on the reasons - being unwelcoming is obviously a problem, but nor can you force a diverse group of people to do things.

    The second seems to me worse.

  • I think the article I linked to is dreadful. The sort of thing the Guardian specialises in, fodder to give the dim-witted something to fume about while they eat their organic muesli.

    That's why I made the comparison with cycling. Just because the profile of the participants tends to be skewed toward the white middle class, it doesn't necessarily follow that we're all a bunch of racist bastards.

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