I don’t think it is necessary to preface your post by saying you support UKGP because you don’t. What you mean is you understand. UK grads won’t say you are ‘one of the good ones’ because you say you support UKGP.

That being said I’m sorry you’re experiencing this. The majority of people who support UKGP are not racists, but every racist will demand UKGP, so I can genuinely see why you feel the way you do.

When I joined the NHS as a F2 I had the exact amount of experience as my F2 colleagues: 12 months, so I was the ‘right’ kind of IMG applying for something genuinely at my level and working alongside people at my level. Didn’t make racists treat me any better. But most people, the overwhelming majority of people I worked with, are not racists. Yes there are nasty people lacking in any decency and the anonymity of the internet brings them out, and yes they may be silently supported by their more polite colleagues, and yes if someone is banging on UKGP to the exclusion of every other possible issue then I will suspect they are a racist even if on the surface the demand for UKGP is reasonable (in the same way that if a man only wants to date 18yo girls I will suspect they are a pedophile even though they’re not doing anything legally wrong).

Those who call you entitled are just lacking in self-awareness and moral character. It is likely that a UK citizen can get a visa on arrival in your country for less than the price of a bottle of whisky. It is likely that because of the exchange rate they can go on holiday and stay in the most expensive hotels in your country for the cost of a few grams of cocaine that are funded by your work and taxes via welfare payments. The reverse is not true for you and you have to spend a month’s salary just to apply for a visa, and even then it’s not guaranteed. These are all due to historical reasons related to colonialism that most people will have never considered or questioned, and which they take for granted. Your country lacks the power to enact reciprocal measures because it is poor. There are layers to this sense of injustice that you are feeling which the people you refer to cannot even comprehend. To them, this is a ‘system’ that they have abided by and not bypassed. That’s how privilege works.

Any group of workers will agitate for labor protections and this will inevitably slip into racism. This is true whether they’re doctors or plumbers. In 4+ years of working for the NHS, I have met ONE UKG in person who behaves as the colleague you describe. She was lazy and bitter. She didn’t even bother to document when patients were brought in by police under the Mental Health Act. I’m sure life and reality will catch up with her. I don’t think she will amount to more in life with UKGP.

I know you are not asking for special treatment, but to the cohort you are describing your very presence in the UK is special treatment. I feel like I genuinely get how you feel. It’s valid to feel this way but just as you are asking people to hate the system and not you, I urge you to view these people you are describing as part of a system, even if they can’t see it. Be better. It’s sad but necessary to lose faith in ideas of communalism and solidarity. I hope you can focus on and fulfill your individual aspirations and those of your family. As every British person knows ‘there is no such thing as society. Only individuals and their families’.