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Title: MonoCulturalism, MultiCulturalism and AntiDiscrimination


1
Mono-Culturalism,Multi-Culturalism and
Anti-Discrimination
2
The British Empire
White populations migrated to America, Canada,
Australia, South Africa, etc.
on which the Sun Never Set
3
1950s-60s Immigration Encouraged
  • 1950s-60s Workers were needed in UK for low paid
    jobs
  • Deliberate recruitment from the former colonies
  • brought new populations to UK

4
Impact on British Culture
  • Monocultural Britain one culture for all
  • became more multicultural many cultures and
    lifestyles
  • NB Britain had always had diversity Celts,
    Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, Normans,
    Huguenots

5
Mixing Cultures One Solution
1492
  • Destroy the natives
  • Massacre
  • Take their land
  • Force them on to reservations
  • Provide inadequate food
  • Beat them for speaking their own language
  • Destroy their culture
  • Wounded Knee, 1890

1890
6
Mixing Cultures Celebrate Diversity
  • Multi-culturalism seeks to celebrate diversity
    and encourage different cultures to flourish
  • Strength tolerance and respect for individuals
  • Weakness what place for the native culture and
    shared values? Should we ban Christmas
    celebrations in schools?

7
Mixing Cultures Problems and Pressures
  • Problems of social cohesion, unity and shared
    values
  • Whose core values?
  • Social breakdown alienation ghettoes no-go
    areas
  • Clash of values womens rights cliterodectomy
    forced marriages intolerance

8
Mixing Cultures
  • Super-diversity formerly Asian and
    Afro-Caribbean
  • Strain on Resources many languages health care
    education policing
  • BUT NHS depends on immigrant workers - could not
    function without them

9
Un-mixing Cultures BNP
  • Some groups advocate
  • white supremacy
  • priority treatment
  • for whites
  • race hatred
  • repatriation

10
Globalisation - Moderate Majority
  • Recent BBC poll shows majority of people in
    Muslim and non-Muslim countries agreed conflict
    is not inevitable
  • This does not mean they all want their values to
    be set by Bush, MacDonald's and Coca Cola

11
Anti-Discrimination
  • 1950s-60s Martin Luther King and the Civil
    Rights Movement
  • 1960s-70s Womens Rights Movement
  • Equal Pay Act 1970 for identical work
  • Encouraged other groups Gay Rights, Disability
    Rights, Anti-Ageism
  • 2007 Equality and Human Rights Commission to
    champion equality and human rights for all and
    promote a fairer, more equal Britain
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