changing ethnic identities

Question 1

what theory believes that ethnic identities are changing

Answer 1

• postmodernism

Question 2

hybrid identities

Answer 2

the result of combining two or more types of identities

Question 3

black

Answer 3

• Black white and Asian youths all shared friendships, fashion and spoke the same slang.
• This was evidence of new hybrid identities where all the youths shared the same culture rather than separate ones
• They tried out culture masks and culture borrowing was taking place

Question 4

culture masks

Answer 4

trying out different cultures that they could put on and off

Question 5

gill

Answer 5

Blasian- british Asian student’s identified themselves as these.
- They adopt black styles of dress and language and combined these with their Asian culture

Question 6

blasians

Answer 6

British-asian who adopt black cultures and styles and combine them with their asian culture

Question 7

brasians

Answer 7

british asians who inherit an asian identity and also adopt a white British identity

Question 8

code switching

Answer 8

where ethnic individuals ‘switch to a white’ personality when surrounded with white peers but then switch back to their ethnic persona

Question 9

burdsey

Answer 9

• Second and third generation British Asian footballers.
• He found that they adopted an Asian identity when with their parents but a white identity when with their white peers.
• He refers to this as code switching
• laddish culture

Question 10

nayak

Answer 10

White wannabes- young white working class males who adopt the styles and language of black culture

Question 11

butler

Answer 11

• women have been portrayed as being exploited having to submit to their husbands and forced arranged marriages
• due to the gulf war the media has portrayed islam as being oppressive
• muslim women are suppressed, isolated, subordinate to their men