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Why are there no black people in Emmerdale?
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Because in reality black people rarely live in the Yorkshire dales villages
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Ruby is mixed race, her mums black
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My village is slightly bigger than Emmerdale. We have no black people living here, yet our nearest city is very cosmopolitan. I would assume this is the case in and around the Dales.
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Because in reality black people rarely live in the Yorkshire dales villages
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Because in reality black people rarely live in the Yorkshire dales villages
Statistically black people are much more likely to live in cities than rural areas like the Dales. That said, there have been black characters in the past and we do have the Sharmas, Rakesh, Kirin, Leyla and Alicia plus Ruby who is mixed race so it is not exclusively white. |
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Because in reality black people rarely live in the Yorkshire dales villages
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Statistically black people are much more likely to live in cities than rural areas like the Dales. That said, there have been black characters in the past and we do have the Sharmas, Rakesh, Kirin, Leyla and Alicia plus Ruby who is mixed race so it is not exclusively white. |
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It's right what chloeb says, I've lived in a Yorkshire village 51 years now & we have never once had black residents, though if we had they would have been treated in the same warm friendly manner as any other residents who are happy to fit in with village life here!!
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There are no Chinese either.
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Maybe Dom Andrews told his black friends not to move to the village where his daughter Gemma died.
With such a small village there has been a lot of deaths....with more on the way. |
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What a bizarre observation to make- perhaps you are running short of PC brownie points or something.There doesn't appear to be any black people living on the moon either, not one was seen in the 1969 footage. |
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True. Or any kind of non-caucasian ethnicity really.
Leyla and Alicia aren't white? ETA - just had a quick look and the actress who plays Leyyla is half Iranian so technically can be considered white or Asian. I think most would say White though so my mistake. |
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My village is slightly bigger than Emmerdale. We have no black people living here, yet our nearest city is very cosmopolitan. I would assume this is the case in and around the Dales.
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Our village has no ethnic minorities, the last one being my dad who died in 2007. I am the only mixed race person living here. I would like to say the village was welcoming to my dad, but in truth apart from two families he received a less than warm welcome and despite living in this village over 20 years was barely spoken to apart from the two families I mentioned. It has never been a particularly friendly or community orientated village (unlike Emmerdale) but one thing that annoyed me in the weeks following his death (which caused a commotion in the village due to the air ambulance coming) was the sudden influx of visitors from the village. They just wanted gossip and I found it quite upsetting they could suddenly want to speak when they hadn't previously.
On the plus side at least this village is better than the nearby town we lived in. |
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That Dr is black .
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My village is slightly bigger than Emmerdale. We have no black people living here, yet our nearest city is very cosmopolitan. I would assume this is the case in and around the Dales.
I assume the Emmerdale team don't want to stray too far away from the sort of community they know a real Emmerdale would be. They may also not want to be accused of racism by having characters who do fulfill those service roles which would be a way of doing it - ironically providing local employment whilst being economically a bit more consistent. It's tricky but you might get into a Balamory situation where the island was populated as if it was South-East England rather than a Scottish Island, which was, noticeable and then it might loose some of its 'realism'. It's really hard because I completely get why the question is asked.... And that is well-crap SecretLife! What is it with people thinking just because somebody isn't about it allows them to automatically voice every unkind thought that popped into their head? Sometimes its best to go with "if you can't say something nice, don't say it at all". And for the record although I'm a Scot, through my mother (Australian through whom I get a lovely Ozzie passport!), there's enough English/Hungarian/Central European/smidge of Jewish in me to classify myself as 'UK white, predominantly Scottish' rather than Scottish outright for the Census - it's a easier. Round here there's loads of people with English grandparents - awkward right now as you can imagine.... |
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i live in a village in suffolk, theres only one mixed race girl in the whole village atm
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Belle murdered the last one, it's no wonder none want to live there.
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Our village has no ethnic minorities, the last one being my dad who died in 2007. I am the only mixed race person living here. I would like to say the village was welcoming to my dad, but in truth apart from two families he received a less than warm welcome and despite living in this village over 20 years was barely spoken to apart from the two families I mentioned. It has never been a particularly friendly or community orientated village (unlike Emmerdale) but one thing that annoyed me in the weeks following his death (which caused a commotion in the village due to the air ambulance coming) was the sudden influx of visitors from the village. They just wanted gossip and I found it quite upsetting they could suddenly want to speak when they hadn't previously.
On the plus side at least this village is better than the nearby town we lived in. I grew up in a village in southern England, my dad is still there and as far as i know there is only one Asian family (the father is a Doctor) and no Blacks. I went to the village school whose catchment area extended about 10 miles to include all the other villages in the area and in a year of 300 we only had one black girl. I think there were only half a dozen in the whole school which is going to have had approx 1700 pupils. Admittedly that was in the 80s but i don't think it has changed all that much. Sadly. |
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My village is slightly bigger than Emmerdale. We have no black people living here, yet our nearest city is very cosmopolitan. I would assume this is the case in and around the Dales.
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As a native of Yorkshire I can confirm a Dales village is not diverse as most families would have been there a long time. West Yorkshire is very diverse with many black and Asian communities but West Yorkshire is very urban and densely populated and is more like neighbouring Greater Manchester than North Yorkshire. It is not clear whether Emmerdale is supposed to be in West or North Yorkshire- Hotton is based on Otley which is technically in the Leeds council district - however even Esholt in the Bradford district where Emmerdale was originally filmed is not very diverse compared to Bradford itself which is one of the most diverse cities in the UK. It is also very unlikely an Asian family would move to the dales and set up a sweet factory - far more likely in a West Yorkshire town with easy access to M1 and M62.
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Not that it takes anything away from the show but I don't imagine that there would be many black people living in West Yorkshire. So it is almost close to reality in terms ethnic minorities as Ramsay street and Summer Bay is. Emmerdale wise there is Dr. Bailey only these days
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Not that it takes anything away from the show but I don't imagine that there would be many black people living in West Yorkshire. So it is almost close to reality in terms ethnic minorities as Ramsay street and Summer Bay is. Emmerdale wise there is Dr. Bailey only these days
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Shows how familiar you are with West Yorkshire - Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield are the three largest cities/towns in West Yorkshire and all have very large black communities.
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There was Dom and Gemma and Jai looks Asian
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