Ethnicity and Identity
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- Created on: 27-05-18 16:37
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- Ethnicity and Identity
- Cultural features
- In the 2011 census 14% of the English and Welsh population were from an ethnic minorities.
- Culture based on shared origins is an important influence on ethnic identities
- Moddood et al - cultural origins still play a key role in influencing the behaviour of Asians
- Socialisation
- Hill - some children learn western ideas from their peers at school etc. which brings their values into conflict with those of their parents
- Ballard disagrees saying that at home people conform to their traditional ethnic identity and outside the home they act 'western'
- Hides - women had the most important role in keeping ethnic identity going in the home and family
- Gilborn - Afro-Caribbean students are often labelled as a problem by teachers
- Hill - some children learn western ideas from their peers at school etc. which brings their values into conflict with those of their parents
- Racism
- Some felt there was no point in trying to integrate into western society
- Minorities responded to this discrimination was by holding on to their ethnic identities
- Ethnic groups turned to each other for support i.e. the Black Pentecostal church
- New Ethnic identites
- Hall - Gender, class, sexual identity can be just as important as ethnic identity
- Young people from ethnic minority backgrounds are developing hybrid identities
- Second generation immigrants were more likely to see themselves as British
- Basit - ethnic identities are dynamic and changeable
- Younger people were more likely to be political and upfront about their ethnic identities
- Cultural features
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