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A 9 page research paper that investigates the question: "Have Black and Asian cultures in Britain been 'self made' in response to social, economic, and political disadvantage?" The writer argues that "yes" these cultures are the result of racism in the UK and goes on to explore how these cultures sit into the overall category of what constitutes "Britishness," exploring the national debate on this topic within the UK. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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"yes." Even a cursory examination of reports in the mass media indicates that racism in all of its manifestations is a problem in the UK, and that those people so
oppressed have reacted by creating their own cultural adaptations. However, what is less clear is how, precisely, black and Asian sub-cultures in Great Britain relate to the popularly accepted concept
of what constitutes "Britishness." The following examination of this topic will investigate, first of all, the extent of racism in mainstream British culture, as well as how black and Asian
Britons cope with that their position in British society. In October of 2000, Peter Hain, the Foreign Office minister at that time, expressed his belief that the UK is headed
toward creating a black underclass similar to the one in South Africa (BBC News, 2000). In other words, according to Hain, entrenched racism within Great Britain is creating a black
underclass. Hain, a long-time opponent of apartheid policies compares the current situation in the UK with conditions in new South Africa (BBC News, 2000). Hain commented that "There is an
opening divide between a black professional class, which is doing extremely well compared with previous generations, (and) a vast pool of ethnic minority citizens who are doing extremely badly in
comparison, not just with mainstream society but with their better-off brother and sisters" (BBC News, 2000). According to Professor Tariq Modood, the research director on ethnicity at the University of
Bristol, black and Asian Britons face considerable problems at both extremes of the socio-economic scale (BBC News, 2000). Modood has asserted that there is a real "glass ceiling" in British
business that requires minority employees to be better qualified than their white counterparts (BBC News, 2000). A report on racism in the UK co-authored by Modood for the Policy Studies
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