Great Britain
GB: England, Scotland, Wales UK: Great Britain + Northern Ireland
Great Britain as a multicultural society
- home of 37 ethnic groups
- more than 300 languages are spoken
- British history = history of continuous foreign influences
- language = mixture of domestic and foreign accents
- lots of reasons to immigrate:
= India → able to move freely (saw Britain as motherland)
= Caribbean´s → came to work in low-paid jobs (poverty to “wealth”)
= Irish → hunger (example: potatoes crisis)
→poverty, persecution, hunger
- restaurants for all ethnic groups
- all groups are able to celebrate own events in public
multiculturalism
• according to BBC poll multiculturalism made Britain a better place to live
• multifaced societies, prejudices and stereotypes have always played a role in Britain:
• no homogenous group, language problems, racial discrimination
effects of colonialism
effects for the (former) colonies
better infrastructure exploitation
better health care systems enslavement (slave labor)
eradication of natives
impoverishment robbery of self-employment
dependence on the motherland (financial)
own state form = destroyed by western
systems
effects for Great Britain
industrial growth bad reputation
possibility to spread for religions (no war) consumption habit
wealth
prevention of overpopulation
ethnic diversity (multiculturalism)
exchange of ideas
Integration versus assimilation
Integration = incorporating individuals from different groups into a society as equals
, Assimilation = adopting the ways of another culture and becoming part of a different society
Integration
Pro Contra
ethnic variability possible overpopulation
preservation of cultural diversity (food) stereotyping
preservation of one´s own identity cultural conflicts possible
social justice for immigrants formation of cultural ghettos
help for immigrants if integration fails → crime increases
improvement of the labor market (more highlights differences → can cause hate
workers)
Assimilation
Pro Contra
possibility to have a new start in life just an illusion
help for immigrants less jobs
no conflicts (based on religious differences costs (language courses, school etc.)
etc.)
equality loss of values, traditions, cultures
as homogenous mass stronger against people are expected to give up own identity
outward influences (political, not biological) (possible?) → can increase hate against the
government or people
Prejudice and one-track mind:
Black White Asian people Jews Christians Muslims
people people
criminal brutal always in shifty not able to aggressive
groups (hinterlistig) laugh
dangerous cold-hearted always rich strict religious war
photographing
having Ebola always use do not tolerate wearing always follow try to convert
weapons alcohol Kippas the rules all others
(vertragen)
poor / live in egoistic eat cats and are boring spreading
slums dogs circumcised everywhere
always always in pollute the bourgeois oppress
happy and time or over environment (spießig) women
singing time (industrial (headscarves)
nation)
dirty stingy / stealing ideas perfectionist stupid
unfriendly (technologies)
living together
upper class:
o very small, wealthy, powerful, influential group
o divided: traditional / business-elite
o “exclusive club” – not only for money but family and name, values, lifestyle, language
GB: England, Scotland, Wales UK: Great Britain + Northern Ireland
Great Britain as a multicultural society
- home of 37 ethnic groups
- more than 300 languages are spoken
- British history = history of continuous foreign influences
- language = mixture of domestic and foreign accents
- lots of reasons to immigrate:
= India → able to move freely (saw Britain as motherland)
= Caribbean´s → came to work in low-paid jobs (poverty to “wealth”)
= Irish → hunger (example: potatoes crisis)
→poverty, persecution, hunger
- restaurants for all ethnic groups
- all groups are able to celebrate own events in public
multiculturalism
• according to BBC poll multiculturalism made Britain a better place to live
• multifaced societies, prejudices and stereotypes have always played a role in Britain:
• no homogenous group, language problems, racial discrimination
effects of colonialism
effects for the (former) colonies
better infrastructure exploitation
better health care systems enslavement (slave labor)
eradication of natives
impoverishment robbery of self-employment
dependence on the motherland (financial)
own state form = destroyed by western
systems
effects for Great Britain
industrial growth bad reputation
possibility to spread for religions (no war) consumption habit
wealth
prevention of overpopulation
ethnic diversity (multiculturalism)
exchange of ideas
Integration versus assimilation
Integration = incorporating individuals from different groups into a society as equals
, Assimilation = adopting the ways of another culture and becoming part of a different society
Integration
Pro Contra
ethnic variability possible overpopulation
preservation of cultural diversity (food) stereotyping
preservation of one´s own identity cultural conflicts possible
social justice for immigrants formation of cultural ghettos
help for immigrants if integration fails → crime increases
improvement of the labor market (more highlights differences → can cause hate
workers)
Assimilation
Pro Contra
possibility to have a new start in life just an illusion
help for immigrants less jobs
no conflicts (based on religious differences costs (language courses, school etc.)
etc.)
equality loss of values, traditions, cultures
as homogenous mass stronger against people are expected to give up own identity
outward influences (political, not biological) (possible?) → can increase hate against the
government or people
Prejudice and one-track mind:
Black White Asian people Jews Christians Muslims
people people
criminal brutal always in shifty not able to aggressive
groups (hinterlistig) laugh
dangerous cold-hearted always rich strict religious war
photographing
having Ebola always use do not tolerate wearing always follow try to convert
weapons alcohol Kippas the rules all others
(vertragen)
poor / live in egoistic eat cats and are boring spreading
slums dogs circumcised everywhere
always always in pollute the bourgeois oppress
happy and time or over environment (spießig) women
singing time (industrial (headscarves)
nation)
dirty stingy / stealing ideas perfectionist stupid
unfriendly (technologies)
living together
upper class:
o very small, wealthy, powerful, influential group
o divided: traditional / business-elite
o “exclusive club” – not only for money but family and name, values, lifestyle, language
