Daily Express - Ethnicity & Postcolonial Theory

The Daily Express is a daily conservative tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. This article shown below was published in 2010, with the headline "One In 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics" in bold, capital letters to instantly grab the reader's attention.

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We can apply many sections of Gilroy's theory to this article. Gilroy points out that immigrants are perceived to be swamping white Britain. The use of the noun "ethnics" in the headline connotates to this point, making a division between white British people and British people of colour. As Gilroy states, immigrants were seen as an alien 'other' to an imagined white Britishness.