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BAME adjective[ before noun ] UKuk /ˌbiː.eɪ.emˈiː//beɪm/ us /ˌbiː.eɪ.emˈiː//beɪm/ abbreviation for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic: used to refer to people in the UK who do not consider themselves to be white. This is no longer used as an official term and many people do not like it because it seems to treat many different people and groups as if they are the same: 黑人、亚裔及其他少数族裔(Black, Asian, and minority ethnic 的缩写,在英国用来指称非白人族裔) 35% of Londoners are from BAME communities.35%的伦敦人来自黑人、亚裔和其他少数族裔群体。 In March 2021, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities recommended that the government stop using the term BAME. Compare
BME Use of the term BAME has been increasingly criticized. Both "BAME" (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) and "BME" (Black and minority ethnic) reflect a common way of gathering and collating statistics. We found that the acronyms BAME and BME were not well understood by users and we now avoid these. |