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MULTI-CULTURAL BRITAIN

Many cultures in Britain:

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were separate kingdoms in former times. Today they form the basis of British culture.

In any of the big cities are many other cultures represented, whose diversity enriches all aspects of British life. Britain’s history had always “foreign” influences, through conquest, trade, migration, travel, asylum and empire.

London is home of 37 different ethnic groups of over 10.000 people. Therefore it’s the most cosmopolitan city in the world. In London are ethnic “villages” but there are no ghettos. London’s ethnic minority population is 23% of the cities total population.

The largest single group originates from the Indian sub-continent. There are also people from Pakistan, Bangladesh. They all were able to move freely to Britain until immigration rules changed in the 60s and 70s.

Many people came from the Caribbean to work in low-paid jobs in the 1950s.

The Irish settled in Britain for many reasons, including hunger when the potato harvest failed in Ireland. Chinese, African, Middle Eastern, Australian, Japanese and Hungarian fled from poverty or persecution.

There are temples, restaurants and community centres for all these groups. Every year is the Chinese New Year festival and the Caribbean Carnival in Notting Hill.

Stories about three persons:

  • SAYEED:

His father left Palestine when the war started and fled to Kuwait. He met Sayeed’s mother there, although she’s English, and Sayeed was born there. With 10 he went to school in England. It was different from life in Kuwait because there were so many rules, but he tried hard to fit it.

They spoke English at home. Toda he wishes he had learnt Arabic while he was little, but he was so horrible to his private tutor that he wouldn’t teach him any more.

He misses the big family gatherings in Kuwait but he likes the freedom in England, too. He loves Arabic food and he wants his children to belong to both cultures because he thinks its important to deny your origins. He likes the variety of London’s culture and he has never r.....[read full text]

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A spokesman for the west Midland said that officers were only doing there job.

More than a third of the searches the police did were of people from ethnic groups.

Josephs says he lost all respect for the police. He works. He pays his taxes. He just want to get on with his life.

A black surgeon in Britain:

Doctor Hebry Annan, originally from Ghana, is one of Great Britain’s leading consultant obstetricians and gynaecologists. He has performed hundreds of life saving operations on patients of all races. He thinks that because of his professional status he had never been discriminated.

The truth is , had Henry decided to go back to Ghana, the quality of life for many people in Britain would have gone down a lot.

Therefore “Roots Of The Future” is an initiative, which want to show that an ethnically diverse Britain is a far better Britain all around. They want people to start learning about other cultures and to realise and accept the fact that different isn’t any better or any worse- it’s equal.

The book “Roots Of The Future” will tell the history of people who have come to Britain, how they have contributed, and how they continue to contribute to economic, cultural and social develop.....

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