The United Colours of Britain: Race and Ethnicity in the UK Today

1. The United Colours of Britain:Race and Ethnicity in the UK Today Estra Tõnisson estra@kivilinn.tartu.ee estra.pbworks.com

3. Whatismulticulturalism? • the belief that different cultures within a society should all be given importance (Cambridge DictionariesOnline) • All thesegroups are positivelyaccepted, notnegativelytolerated • Aspectsofculture, customs, religion • Whydopeoplemigrate?

4. Ethniccompositionin 2011

5. LONDON'S ETHNIC MAKEUP • White British: 44.9% • Other white: 14.9% • Asian: 18.4% • Black: 13.3% • Arab: 1.3% • Mixed race: 5%

6. Keyfacts • 7.5million residents of England and Wales were foreign-born in 2011 • Just 44.9 per cent of Londoners are White British, according to census data • Less than 90 per cent of country is white for the first time ever • 15.3% of people are ofethnicminorities, bu 2050 estimated 20% • 546,000 residents of England and Wales now speak Polish.It’sthesecondlargestlanguageinEngland and Wales. • There are 100 differentlanguagesspokenacrossthe UK • Multicultural BritainCensus 2011

7. About half of the ethnic minorities are born in the UK. • In Wales there are 96 – 99% of whites • ¼ primary school students are from ethnic minority • 1/5 secondary school students are from ethnic minorities

8. Matchthewordslistedbelowwiththelanguagestheycomefrom • kayak • ski • minister • mammoth • ketchup • robot • borshch • ballet • mafia • yogurt • paprika • umbrella • noodle • boss • potato • Arabic • Czech • Chinese • Dutch • French • German • Hungarian • Inuit • Italian • Latin • Norwegian • Russian • Spanish • Turkish • Ukrainian

11. Billy Bragg - England, Half English • England, Half-Englishis a 2002 album byEnglishpoliticalsinger-songwriterBillyBragg and TheBlokes, and a song fromthat album. The song isaboutracisminEngland and theanti-immigrationfeelings and racistabuseofasylumseekersfuelledbythe tabloid press, particularlytheDaily Mail. • England, HalfEnglish

12. Benjamin Zephaniah - The British • Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah • (born 15 April 1958, Birmingham, England) is a British Jamaican Rastafarian writer and dub poet. He is a well-known figure in contemporary English literature, and was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008 The British

13. Quiz 1 Q: Since which period has there been a continuous black population in Britain? 1500s 1780s 1940s 1950s A:Historians have found that black musicians were playing at the royal courts of both England and Scotland at the beginning of the 1500s.

14. Quiz 2 Q: How many Indian soldiers served for Britain in the Second World War? 2500 25,000 250,000 2,500,000 A: Two and a half million Indian troops served in the Second World War. They mainly saw action in East Asia and North Africa. 25,000 were killed. A further 3 million people died during the Bengal famine of 1943 which was caused by food being redirected to feed the British army

15. Quiz 3 Q:What percentage of the world's asylum seekers and refugees were living in Britain at the end of 2002? less than 3% between 3% and 5% between 5% and 10% over 10% A:The total number of people around the world who are refugees or asylum seekers is around 12 million. Of these, 259,300 have come to Britain. This number amounts to 2.2% of the total number of refugees and asylum seekers in the world. It also amounts to less than 0.5% of the total population of Britain.

16. Quiz 4 Q: Britain's first black professional football player was Cyrille Regis who played for West Bromwich Albion from the early 1970s True or false? A:Arthur Wharton, Preston North End's goalkeeper, became Britain's first black professional player in 1896, much earlier than Cyrille Regis.

17. Quiz 5 Q: Roughly what percentage of people living in Britain in 2001 were born outside the British Isles? 3% 8% 12% 19% A:About 8% of the UK population were born abroad. Of these, 31% came from otjer European countries, 19% from Africa, 20% from the Indian sub-continent and 11% from the Americas including Canada, the USA and the Caribbean

18. Quiz 6 Q:12% of White men in Britain aged 16-24 are unemployed. What percentage of Black Caribbean men aged 16-24 are unemployed (2001 figures) 10% Also 12% 16 % 27% A: 27% of Black Caribbean men aged 16-24 are unemployed. For Bangladeshi men in the same age range, over 40 per cent are unemployed. Young Black African men, Pakistanis and those belonging to the 'Mixed' group also have very high unemployment rates - they range between 25 per cent and 31 per cent.

19. 10 key moments in UK race relations1 The Empire Windrush The arrival of the cruise ship Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks on the morning of 22 June, 1948, marked the start of modern day mass immigration to Britain.

20. 2. Till Death Us Do Apart • a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975.

21. 3 Rivers of Blood • A brilliant scholar, linguist and eloquent speaker he may have been, but former Conservative minister Enoch Powell will always be remembered for his infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech in April 1968.

22. 4 Trevor McDonald, newsreader • In 1973, Trevor McDonald became Britain's first black newsreader

23. 5 Race Relations Act • the Race Relations Act 1976 enshrined many of the laws on discrimination that are taken for granted today. The act, which applies to Great Britain but not Northern Ireland, makes racial discrimination unlawful in employment, training, housing, education and the provision of goods, facilities and services.

24. 6 Brixton Riots • In 1981, violence flared up in urban centres across England as young blacks vented their anger at society and, in particular, their treatment by police. Brixton, in south London, was the first flashpoint.

25. 7 Four New Black MPs • Prior to the 1980s, the last time a black MP had been elected to Parliament was in 1922. In 1987 it all changed with the election of four non-white MPs: Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng, Bernie Grant and Keith Vaz.

26. 8 Stephen Lawrence’s Murder The murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, in 1993, and the subsequent investigation, or lack of one, again blew open the division between non-whites and the police.

27. 9 Paul InceCaptainsEngland In 1993 footballer Paul Ince became the first black player to captain England in its "national sport". Six years later, Indian-born Nasser Hussain performed the same task for England's cricket side

28. 10 LEICESTER'S NON-WHITE MAJORITY • Leicester is set to be Britain's first non-white city by 2019. • Most ethnically diverse city in th UK • 60.5 % of white population http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1517672.stm

29. 11 London Bomb attacks 2005 Failure of multiculturalism Also known as 7/7 52 people were killed and around 700 were injured.

30. 12 August 2011 Riots • Tottenham riots aftermath • PM David Cameron on riots • Between 6 and 10 August 2011, several London boroughs and districts of cities and towns across England suffered widespread rioting, looting and arson.

31. GoodnessGracious Me • BBC Englishlanguagesketchcomedy show originally on BBC Radio 4 and latertelevised on BBC Two (theradioseriesfrom 1996-1998 and the TV seriesfrom 1998-2001) AsianTopGear

32. Citizen Khan • Citizen Khan is a family-based British sitcom produced by the BBC. It is notable as being the BBC's first South Asian sitcom. It is set in Sparkhill, Birmingham, described by its lead character Mr Khan as "the capital of British Pakistan." Citizen Khan follows the lifeof Mr Khan, a loud-mouthed, patriarchal, self-appointed community leader, and his long suffering wife and daughters Shaziaand Alia • Citizen Khan

33. Multicultural celebrations

34. The Notting Hill Carnival

35. Hindu Festival of Diwali