Grenfell tower death toll

I have just seen the final death toll numbers for the Grenfell Tower fire in London, which stands at 71 civilian casualties.

Now, before I get to the is it normal question, I'd just like to say R.I.P. to the fallen, and I would like to give my deepest condolences to the surviving members of their extended families. This was an awful tragedy, and the people responsible were those who are in far better positions of wealth than the average Tom, Dick or Harry.

My question is this. After seeing the names of the victims, I was surprised to see that of the 71 people who lost their lives, less than 10 of them had names you would associate with British people. The vast majority (50+) had names like Abdulazziz Rahman and Rajdeep Kasim. Is it normal that I would have expected 50+ British names for the fallen and a few ethnic minorities mixed in? Or am I a racist, xenophobic piece of shit for asking this question in the first place?

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  • paramore93

    Does it matter?

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    • ...Not really. It certainly isn't the most important issue surrounding the whole thing.

      If you thought that's how my opinion came across when I asked the question, then I apologise.

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      • Ellenna

        Yeah, surely one of the most important issues surround the whole thing is the fact that the highly flammable cladding was put on the buildings because wealthy people living nearby didn't like how they looked before and that the cladding shouldn't have been used in the first place.

        In Australia (and I'll bet many other countries as well) thousands of newer buildings are covered in this same cladding: we've already had one fire in an apartment block with this cladding and it's only a matter of time before the same tragedies are happening worldwide. Our governments at all levels are doing NOTHING about it.

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  • Tigernormal

    An area of different of races - don’t expect Mr Smith to live there.

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  • Jimbo24

    If it was from a place with a high immigrant population, then it's normal that most of them have foreign-sounding names.

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  • McBean

    Not sure. My first impression is the you have an irrepressible curiosity for details of genocide. Either that or you are a statistician who takes great pleasure quantifying the unlikelihood of sampling outcomes.

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    • BeautifulDreamer6I2

      Ohhhh, when I get my hands on you! 😊😍😊❤️❤️

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      • McBean

        Mmmmm my naughty angel from heaven, my sensual passion for your warm touch is indescribable. Your smile, yet your essence itself is as divine as the breezes of springtime that embrace my spirit. My heart longs to held in your hands. Please, my love, let me comfort you.

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  • Ellenna

    They were public housing blocks, didn't you realise that? So the people who lived there would have been the most disadvantaged people in the population, a fair proportion of whom would've been immigrants or children of immigrants.

    I don't know how you work out anyone's ethnicity from their surnames anyway: I live in a very multicultural country which includes a high proportion of people with non-british surnames, many of whom have been here for generations.

    I repeat paramore93's query above: DOES IT MATTER?

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