MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN
Britain is a multicultural society, which it always has been. People from all over the world have chosen Britain as their place to live through thousands of years. Britain has been dominated by Angels, Saxons, Celts, Normans and Vikings. All these groups of people invaded Britain between 500 BC and 1100 AD. After the Celts were pushed back to their own country around year 400, Britain has been an open place for refugees and persecuted persons. As early as then, Britain was a place combined by many different people. This prehistory, is an important factor to understand why Britain is so multicultural as it is today.
Not only have Britain been invaded by others, but Britain itself owned many colonies back in time. In the end of the 18th- and the start of 19th century Britain actually ruled over one quarter of the world. They …show more content…
They believe that Britain would have been greater of without the immigrants, and that they have stolen their workplaces and jobs. They strongly think that multiculturalism has been a tragedy in Britain. However, there has always been this way; some people are open for immigrants, while some people are not. There are several racist groups in Britain, like it always has been. In the late 70´s there were people who abused the subculture skinheads. They were people that meant different things and had other values than the traditional non-racist skinheads. For the original skinheads, they went under the nickname “boneheads”. Boneheads was a group of people who was in favour of white power, and among others they were against immigrants. There were many differences and a big distinction between skinheads and boneheads, but the media judged all alike, which clearly characterized the skinhead`s reputation. Because of this, people don`t mention the skinheads as often today, since they think of them like
Britain is a multicultural society, which it always has been. People from all over the world have chosen Britain as their place to live through thousands of years. Britain has been dominated by Angels, Saxons, Celts, Normans and Vikings. All these groups of people invaded Britain between 500 BC and 1100 AD. After the Celts were pushed back to their own country around year 400, Britain has been an open place for refugees and persecuted persons. As early as then, Britain was a place combined by many different people. This prehistory, is an important factor to understand why Britain is so multicultural as it is today.
Not only have Britain been invaded by others, but Britain itself owned many colonies back in time. In the end of the 18th- and the start of 19th century Britain actually ruled over one quarter of the world. They …show more content…
They believe that Britain would have been greater of without the immigrants, and that they have stolen their workplaces and jobs. They strongly think that multiculturalism has been a tragedy in Britain. However, there has always been this way; some people are open for immigrants, while some people are not. There are several racist groups in Britain, like it always has been. In the late 70´s there were people who abused the subculture skinheads. They were people that meant different things and had other values than the traditional non-racist skinheads. For the original skinheads, they went under the nickname “boneheads”. Boneheads was a group of people who was in favour of white power, and among others they were against immigrants. There were many differences and a big distinction between skinheads and boneheads, but the media judged all alike, which clearly characterized the skinhead`s reputation. Because of this, people don`t mention the skinheads as often today, since they think of them like