British Unit 2 Research Paper

This week, in the wake of tragedy, the world stands in solidarity with you, for all the good that you do, and the difference that you make.

Officer Owen has taught me a lot in D.A.R.E.. The biggest thing I have learned from him is how to live a Drug-Free life.

There has been an archaic existing fear of anything different from the norm becoming present, however having something different may bring about positive change, diversity, and new knowledge. Yet people are reluctant to accept something different and instead make efforts to change the differences to match the way things normally and dominantly are. This fear and reaction is the reason for why efforts of assimilation occur, so that the dominant can integrate the minority and to conform to the dominant culture. Writer Sarah Ahmed discusses the issues of migration, assimilation, and what it really means to be happy in her chapter “Melancholic Migrant.” She traces the links between white culture and happiness; the idea of the whiter you are the happier you are. Ahmed presents arguments of other scholars, like Trevor Phillips, that present the notion of migration being the root of unhappiness in communities with people of different racial backgrounds living together and running into conflicts (122). She goes on to explore how the British government tries to resolve these diversity conflicts among their British citizens and Asian immigrant population. The British Empire promoted civilized kind of pleasure that they assumed could not be found in the Indian culture, but only in the British culture. Based on the excuse of Indians being uncivilized the British made attempts to colonize them. The British held the belief that India does not have culture and thus the

Cardiff city is a County Borough and the capital of Wales. The history of Cardiff spans over 6000 years. The surrounding area was first inhabited in the Neolithic period. In fact, there are four Neolithic burial chambers are within a radius of 10 miles of the Cardiff city center. Until the Roman conquest of Britain, Cardiff was in the territory of an Iron Age Celtic British tribe. known as the Silures. Around 57 AD, during the reign of Emperor Nero, the Romans built a fort by the River Taff. This gave its name to the city in Welsh. Its location allowed the Romans to control trade and movement along the rivers Taff, Rhymney, and the Ely. So, this gave them power over a large area. The dominating fort protected the area until around 370 AD.

Great Britain was founded in 1707. It is an island located in northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by four seas. Great Britain is made up of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It has a population of around sixty-eight million people. Great Britain’s economy is made up of four main points: markets, private property, rule of law, and entrepreneurship. These four main points contribute to Great Britain as a capitalist country.

Immigration changed British culture in the nineteen-fifties; from the beat of the music to the spice of traditional British food. 'Britishness' couldn’t be viewed as racial inheritance any longer, especially in such a multicultural society. Newcomers were not always accepted by British people; racism was a huge issue for many; very often neighbourhoods were offended by the arrival of large groups of immigrants. Olga Atkins an immigrant from the West Indies accounts that ‘some people might say it was a racial issue, but I would say it was an ignorance issue. I’ve had things done to me personally that was discrimination. I’ve had people spit in my face; I’ve had people call me black monkey and people say, ‘Get back to the jungle’. It’s just pure

Black and Asian immigrants faced various degrees of hostility and racial prejudice in postwar Britain. Surveys conducted in the mid 1960’s for example, show that four out of five British people felt that “too many immigrants had been let into the country.” Today immigration is again centre of the political stage. It is now generally accepted in Britain that the pressure on public services, housing, schools, the welfare system and the National Health Service is a result of uncontrolled EU immigration in a relatively small and ‘overcrowded island’ that is becoming intolerable. Where formerly, critics of uncontrolled immigration were accused of xenophobia and being “Little Englanders” the subject is no longer taboo.

England is the biggest country that is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The country of England has a history that is riddled by plagues, ruled by monarchs, and devastated by two World Wars. Despite these hardships, England also contains a rich history of culture and beauty.

In this essay, I will be discussing foil as an aspect of characterization in Small Island. The patriotic Bernard Bligh and the ambitious Gilbert Joseph have contrasted overlapping patterns throughout the novel. Andrea Levy, the author of Small Island was born to Jamaican parents in 1948. Levy’s inspiration to write Small Island was her fascination of her Jamaican heritage, and how her parents came from Jamaica to Britain. She wanted to understand and present those experiences in a format of a novel.

The short essay “Going Ashore” was written by Jhumpa Lahiri. The author grew up in Rhode Island to Indian parents and was educated at Barnard College and Boston University. Her parents union is a result of arrange marriage. Her background serves as a map to the geographical and psychological state of her work. She is not only interested in examining the lives and experiences of immigrants but also the lives of their offspring. In Going Ashore, she had successfully captured the sense of dislocation and loss that immigrants’ children feel; the unhealable gap between parents culture and the culture you grew up with, between personal

Great Britain is an island that comprises most of the area of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, one of the world’s leading nations. The island is divided into three countries: England, Scotland and Wales. It is the ninth largest and third most populous island in the world. The population is comprised of many different ethnic groups and religions. Great Britain boasts a strong economy and political parties abound.

The issue of Self-displacement of the British colonial characters in the colonised Indian peripheries reveals the nature of the power relations in dominating the Other (the Indians). Based on the Oriental discourse, this section highlights the struggle of the subjugated inferior Other in approving its identity and diminishing the British stereotypical inferior images and apathy in portraying their culture. This conflict is the sources of

The atmosphere in the British West Indies during the 1930’s was one of strife, conflict and a general sense of injustice. This statement of course is descriptive of the conditions faced by the middle and working classes of the British West Indian colonies. These workers have long suffered the exploitation and inequalities associated with being the subservient group to the colonial powers that governed them. For this general reason, the ‘disturbances’ occurred during the1930’s. To the colonial authorities, however, all was well in the colonies as the normal mercantile service continued whereby the colonial power received the lion’s share of revenues to the detriment of the colony. It is no surprise, then, that the British reacted the way they did to the disturbances of 1934 to 1938. Their means of response were indicative of repressing the issues rather than wholly trying to rectify the situation. The colonial authorities’ reaction to the disturbances indicated their desire to maintain their capitalist power relations over the colonies. In order to assess this point the issues faced by the colonies, the

It is noteworthy that the subject, “They” referred to the whole English community that urges Lesley, Blakiston as well as the red-nosed boy have no alternative but to follow them. The latter, as Hamidullah mentions, used to be nice to him, but the longer as he stays in India, he begins to detest the Indians as his senior generation and the majority of the English. Thus, this discrimination against Indians becomes an inheritance for every English in India. For Indians, they are indoctrinated and internalize the subordinated position where

The root of the problem lay in India, where women were not emancipated because of the religious and social systems. The proportion of Indian women imported was only 3 per 100 men before the mid 1840’s 32 per 100 by 1870 and a legal minimum of 40 per 100 thereafter. Up to 1870 immigrants had to had been denied the chance to lead normal family lives. In cases where Indian immigrants were married their wives were sometimes taken away to be the mistress of the plantation owners as in the days of slavery. Immigrants were also subject to arbitrary treatment by their employers . This sometimes involved flogging and imprisonment and the immigrant dared not complain. From 1906 to 1907 nearly 40 % of the immigrant laborers in Guyana received summons for breach of the labor laws.