Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dlnhk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T02:39:57.932Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Statement by Council on Psychiatric Practice and Training in British multi-ethnic society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Racial discrimination and prejudice are endemic in all societies. Strangers, people of different appearance or habits, evoke strong and mixed feelings. Their poverty may be seen as “a burden on society”, their ability as “a conspiracy to take us over”, and their unfamiliarity as “diluting our island heritage”. Immigrant groups may hold equally distorted views about their indigenous hosts.

Type
The College
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 7 , July 1990 , pp. 432 - 437
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.