Crowd diversity

[russycarps]

Seemed to be a lot more diverse this year. Lots more black people than I've seen before, quite a few SE Asians too.

We hung out with some random black dude on Friday night and I have to say the amount of random people asking him for drugs was remarkable. He laughed it off but it was excruciating to observe.

Looks like things are moving in the right direction though. Only 98% whiteys now!

[pecks]

I noticed this too, a lot more black faces this year, a wonderful thing

[Spindles]

Yeah, it was another year of a tiny, tiny, minuscule increase in diversity.

[glastofun]

Ethnic diversity = diversity? 

[amfy]

Thought the same thing - still a long way to go, but it was good to see a bit more diversity in the crowd.

I went to a reggae festival in Barbados last month, and was one of about 5 white people in a crowd of about 3-4000. It's a dead weird feeling. Most people just looked straight through me, which I decided to take to mean that my presence didn't bother them, but just a little smile or something would have made me feel so much more comfortable. It was certainly interesting to experience how that feels, I have been quite outnumbered at gigs in this country due to my taste in music, but never as significantly as that.

I decided to remember this at Glastonbury - I hope that wasn't horribly patronising, but In fairness I try to smile at as many people as possible at Glastonbury regardless, so it shouldn't have been.

[Amy Lawn]

I'm not one to mentally note such things, other than it was very very overwhelmingly white, as usual. But one of our group who hadn't been before, did remark that it wasn't as "really fucking white" as Bestival, I did think that was a slightly odd thing to say, but then I was informed she has one Indian parent, so is more inclined to notice such things.

[Ruwise]

I noticed a slight increase as well. Good to see and hope it gets better. Can't believe that everybody would assume that somebody who black was a drug dealer though. Shocking! 

[Amy Lawn]

I noticed a slight increase as well. Good to see and hope it gets better. Can't believe that everybody would assume that somebody who black was a drug dealer though. Shocking! 

On a lesser forum, somebody would take this as a cue to post a clip of that horribly awkward clip with Doc Brown on the Inbetweeners. Efestivals is going to stay strong here.

[Mr November]

The number of internationals I came across this year was much higher than normal. The group of Spaniards that started rowing during Todd Terje were a particularly fun bunch.

[chewsavedlatin]

I noticed a slight increase as well. Good to see and hope it gets better. Can't believe that everybody would assume that somebody who black was a drug dealer though. Shocking! 

 

I know, I've only ever met one black drug dealer.

[1laws1]

Perhaps the ticket page should read ' we would particularly like to sell tickets to under represented groups'............what a terrible post!

[CaledonianGonzo]

A few Tibetans around

[Mr Splodge]

It was really good to see more diverse range of people, I really hope it continues

[FuzzyDunlop]

Was it that diverse? 90% seemed to be from Liverpool!

[Buttonhead]

I noticed a slight increase as well. Good to see and hope it gets better. Can't believe that everybody would assume that somebody who black was a drug dealer though. Shocking!

Few people assumed I was just because I'm from Liverpool!

[Andeeroo]

I certainly noticed it too. Good to see!

[FloorFiller]

Was it that diverse? 90% seemed to be from Liverpool!

 

being from Liverpool myself i thought i was just noticing a lot of them because of my familiarity with the accent, but it's nice to know there actually were a lot of us there

 

on the diversity front, i didn't really notice it at all. seemed as white as it's ever been, but then again i didn't really take much notice

[Matt42]

Saw a lot of open and happy same sex couples at the festival too! Nice to see since i've seen a lot of homophobic remarks thrown around at other events!

[Wooderson]

I met people from France and Japan during the weekend. Having a super time.

[giantkatestacks]

I didnt think it was that much more diverse tbh, most of the black people we saw were performers. I actually clocked a group of lads in shangri-la on sunday night while the headliners were on who, on closer inspection turned out to look a lot like Rudimental.

[solitaire]

I always reckon that most festivals need less people and more Humans.

[stopwn1981]

It's the most white middle class thing ever in all honesty.

[fur_q]

It's the most white middle class thing ever in all honesty.

You've clearly never been to Camp Bestival before.

[Mr November]

Saw a lot of open and happy same sex couples at the festival too! Nice to see since i've seen a lot of homophobic remarks thrown around at other events!

I was pretty disappointed by the ".... is gay" flags I saw around the site this year.

[poison69]

I could be way off the mark here but could it be something to do with Ramadan being celebrated at this time of year??

 

Please correct me if wrong.