MonoCulturalism, MultiCulturalism and AntiDiscrimination

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Mono-Culturalism,Multi-Culturalism and
Anti-Discrimination
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The British Empire
White populations migrated to America, Canada,
Australia, South Africa, etc.
on which the Sun Never Set
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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

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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

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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
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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?

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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

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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

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Un-mixing Cultures BNP

• Some groups advocate
• white supremacy
• priority treatment
• for whites
• race hatred
• repatriation

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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

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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