Ethnicity Flashcards
Family- Ghuman
-Asian parents socialise their children into a particular set of values which are being = loyal, respectful, obedient, and respectful of their elders
-Make girls have to marry a pertner they choose for them, problems with premarital sex and love marriages.
Family- Anwar
-The family is a source of conflict for some asian children, partcularly around isuues of western clothing, arranged marriages, and freedom
-Culture clash created with the younger generation mixing within schools
-Girls tend to be given less freedom, expected to conform to traditional roles
Family- Jacbson
-Young pakistanis
-See islam as a crucial part of their identity in terms of diet, worship, dress and behaviour
-Defensive identity, created as a response to being excluded from white british
Education- Driver and Ballard
-Argue that Asian families place a great value on their childrens education
-Push their children to have high ambitions and gain best posiible grades
-reflected in GCSE achievements, Asian students performed better overall compared to white or black students
Education- Archer and Francis
-Success of british chinese students, educational success being part of their identity, even though they might take part in laddish behaviour they still mantain commitment to the school.
-Parents constantly spent money and time in supporing their children’s education
-Critical of white parents who are seen as allowing failure to develop
Education- Coard
-Most british schools are atught an ethnocentric curriculum, focusing about white british culture
-this is portrayed through history lessons and holidays which follow a christian calendar
Media- Alexander
-Asian youths in east London were unfairly targeted by police and media
-myth of asian gangs createda moral panic
-islamophobia
Media - Tony Sewell
-Young black afro carribean males follow the hypermasculine role models often shown in rap music videos
-Creates a gangsta identity where they achieve status among their peers for wearing the right designer clothes
Changing ethnic identity- Gill
-Post modernist
-studied British asian students and identified a number of them as Blasian meaning they adopted Black cultural styles and combined them with their asian Culture
Changing ethnic identity- Nayak
-Hybrid identities
-White wannabes, white people adopting Blackcultural styles and acting in a stereotypical way
Cultural Homogenisation- Fairweather and Rogerson
- argue that it is happening because of:
-Computer software not being localised
-Advertising by the West
-Antisocial behaviour on the internet targeting certain groups
-Digital communication does not give rules or police morality and ethics
