Are you sure they're Scottish? They're all tanned, a true Scot would be so pale that the light from the flash would reflect from them causing lens flair in the photo.

I am so tired of people crying racism about every single issue. Like someone said what if the representatives of other races don't want to participate. Unless you have evidence of blatant racism, keep your supposedly open minded opinion to yourself. You pointing out racism where there is none makes you the racist.

It's good to see people are finally pushing back against this ridiculous nonsense.

Yep, if I recall the census, ethnic minorities in Scotland are 4% of the population.

Hah 'the problem with scotland is its full of scots' what a film

I love Scottish accent! ^-^

I'm moving to Scotland!

I dont live in scotland but it seems in this article that some people dont know the history of black discrimination in the western media. I certainly know racist people in real life or seen them on tv. If you want to win an argument by saying your not racist or scotland is not racist then its best to put some evidence on the table, That wouldnt be hard for a non-racist to do. The lack of it here personally raises questions in my mind. Did this writer of the article pursue a bias with the quotes he/she selected? I dont know for sure. A photo of a zimbabwe contest? To show an example of a normal beauty contest? In zimbabwe for the last 40 years there has been discrimination and terrorism towards white people. These photos do not help anyone. If you dont care about my opinion or want to shut me down fine. But if you want to walk into my house in real life and convince me youre not racist then sorry the approach taken by some in the article will not be successful.

and it seems like only 4 or 5 brunettes were allowed to participate as well. Where is the diversity of hair color? Such an outrage!!! This is so stupid on so many levels!

Friends the show was very diverse, there was a Canadian.

Most of the British are white but God help us if we don't portray white as the minority

It's like asking for black/brunette women in Miss Argentina. We are a mix of west Europe cultures. We could easily walk in USA or any European country and nobody will ever know we are latinas, because u know, latin women are supposed to be curvy and brunette and know how to dance salsa...

I love how people get so wildly passionate about everything on the internet, but usually all in a single way. To me, the best part of this post is : "...my tweet doesn’t mention race at all, it’s basically a sarcastic comment about how they all look alike, however that can mean so many different things. The backlash only focused on race..."

Lots of 'don't pick on White people' posts on here lately.....

The very white folk don't expect to tan. They go in the sun (with sunscreen) to neutralize the blue.Ask me how I know. (Formerly magenta. It peeled. It hurt.)

I live in europe and never seen a black person in my life.

People are so focused on diversity that they want it everywhere without thinking if it makes sense at all. I think he made that comment without any thought and now he is trying to argue himself out instead of admitting that he just made a mistake...

and only 4 or 5 brunettes allowed to participate? for shame!!! how stupid this is!

There’s a strain of orange in Scotland?!

I agree with Iain Robertson's wider point. It is interesting that everyone jumped straight to race when diversity can mean a number of things.

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So f*****g tired of this SJW / PC movement! From black women with fake, straight, blonde, weaves and blue contacts talking about cultural appropriation, to it being funny to tattoo ridiculous Asian words on white people. And a good portion is coming from spoiled, delicate millennials. Just watched a YouTube clip about the Amish community and, for whatever reason, at least 50% of the footage was black people?!!! Stfu, and grow a spine.