White privilege

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Does the global economy need to start dismantling 'global white privilege'? The Black Lives matter protest movement has focussed lots of attention on racial attitudes in rich western countries. How easy is it for instance, for people of black or Asian heritage to get on the ladder to business success in those countries? But is the economics of what's now called 'white privilege' a global problem too? Ed Butler speaks to Chandran Nair, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Global Institute for Tomorrow, an independent think-tank in Hong Kong and the author of ‘Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World’. And also to Lucinda Platt, from the London School of Economics, who has recently written a report for the IFS on the degree of social and economic mobility being achieved among the UK's minority racial and ethnic groups.

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0:00.0	Hi there, my name's Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, the curse of Western
0:07.7	white privilege. One outspoken Asian thinker tells us it's time the world woke up to the
0:15.3	inbuilt inequalities at play. This is about privilege institutionalized in the global architecture of the world we live in,
0:23.9	entrenched over two or three centuries to maintain that economic power over the rest.
0:30.7	But is race really the heart of the problem that he's describing? Also, a former African president
0:36.1	gives us inspirational words for tomorrow's
0:39.6	female leaders. To be what you
0:41.5	are, have the self-confidence
0:43.3	that you're able to achieve
0:45.6	it, stay the course.
0:47.7	And also, take a few
0:49.2	with you. You can't do it alone so somebody
0:51.3	has your back when the going gets rough.
0:53.7	That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC.
0:59.1	You think about Tottenham. Everybody has a view of Tottenham. This was my home. This is where I was brought up.
1:07.3	It means a lot to me to be able to come back and see where I was raised.
1:12.4	This was the heart of my upbringing.
1:15.3	The words there of Jackie Wright, one of the most successful Britons working anywhere in the world of technology today.
1:22.5	As chief digital officer and corporate vice president of Microsoft,
1:26.5	she's also the most senior Black
1:28.0	Britain working in tech. For a recent BBC program, she didn't just go out onto the streets
1:33.7	of Tottenham, her home London district. She also spoke to black teenagers there about what
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