Natalie Hicks 3^rdYear Occupational Therapy Student (BSc Hons) at the University of Central Lancashire and one of Able OTUK founding members – shares her thoughts in this blog post, please comment and share.

Throughout the years language has been used to control and divide people, as a way to scapegoat the ‘other’. The people would turn against those who were ‘beneath’ them (in their mind), rather than those ‘above’ them. White Wealthy European Men were at the top of the social order hierarchy, and anyone below this was discriminated against, and treated with abject brutality. We now live in the 21st Century, a time of iphones, WiFi, Zoom Calls and Netflix – we don’t surely discriminate and have this hierarchy now, do we?

We only have to go back a generation to when it was deemed acceptable to put up a sign saying ‘No Irish…