Cultural Practices in English Speaking Countries

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Education and ethnic minority groups in the UK.

1. Historical Perspective:

The number of immigrants of non-white ethnic origins in Victorian Britain decreased after restrictions to immigration were put in place and , during the Victorian period their presence in the educational system is negligible and their presence in a formalized school system is purely anecdotic. (Hall 54) In that period the main source of immigration would be that of Irish Catholics, they compose the main group considered as the “other” in the social construct of Britishness. (Lewis 157) Unfortunately this immigration falls outside the scope of this study. At this point, the widening the scope of education from higher classes to the lower ones was just a matter of class and ethnicity and multiculturalism were not priorities for most educational authorities. (Algunik 105) For practical reasons education was extended to the lower levels of society, although there are considerable cases the main current of opinion was that voiced left us testimonies like the following:

“It is doubtless desirable that the poor should be generally instructed in reading, if it were only for the best of purposes - that they may read the Scriptures. As to writing and arithmetic, it may be apprehended that such a degree of knowledge would produce in them disrelish for the laborious occupations of life. (Williams, 135)

In this case we find the double discrimination against both conditions, being poor and an immigrant. The emphasis on immigrant education was not specially enforced as this would “put them outside their natural place in society” (Silver 1977)

There was no specific legal discrimination against those coming to t...

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Williams, Raymond. The long revolution. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2001. Print.

"Tell us what you think of GOV.UK." Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics: January 2012. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2014. .

"Theme: Population." Population. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. .

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1. Current ethnic composition of the population and regional distribution by origin.

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