Reasons for the Growth of minority ethnic faiths in the UK
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- Created on: 02-03-16 14:01
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- Reasons for the growth of minority ethnic faiths in the UK
- Cultural Identity
- Knott states that when elderly Asian women first came to Britain they felt isolated an found comfort in there religion
- Durkheim pointed out religion helps maintain social solidarity
- Immigrants conscientiously practice their faiths as a way of reinforcing their cultural identity
- Collective worship gives them a point of contact with fellow immigrant
- Thus consolidating the community
- Racism
- Religion positively reinforces their ethnic identity in the face of racism
- Ramji found that for young males in his sample, Islam gives them a degree of status which they feel they cannot achieve in other ways, due to racial discrimination
- Ethnic groups' refusal to assimilate into the wider culture can be seen as threaten by the host population, fueling racism
- Example of his is the refusal of Sikh men to wear motorcycle helmets because their religion forbids them from removing there turbans
- Th police and the courts tolorats this on the basis of religious freedom
- But it is interpretative as a form of discrimination in the eyes of some of the white population, because they believe that they are allowed to get away with a crime
- Th police and the courts tolorats this on the basis of religious freedom
- Example of his is the refusal of Sikh men to wear motorcycle helmets because their religion forbids them from removing there turbans
- Degree of control
- It is a central point in there lives and that gives them amount of control in there everyday lives
- For example
- Muslims must eat specially prepared halal food .
- Sikh males have to wear turbans
- Muslim women may also be expected to wear a veil or hi jab
- Cultural Identity
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