Unit 7: Race

Question 1

Read the following excerpt from Anti-defamation-League about the Skinhead Movement in Britain and answer the questions:
a) What is the social profile of a British skinhead?

Answer 1

Working class members/youth, white men 25-30 years old, they want to express working class pride

Question 2

b) What is the relationship between skinheads and soccer?

Answer 2

They are fanatics of soccer
Hooligans: radical fans of football

Question 3

c) Which are the main ethnic targets of skinheads in Britain?

Answer 3

Asian People, particularly Pakistanis

Question 4

Watch the video of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” and answer the following questions about it.
a) Would you say the general tone of the speech is religious or political?

Answer 4

-Political, he talks about social justice and the constitution
-but it has a religious ethos

Question 5

b) Why do you think that King evoked President Lincoln?

Answer 5

-He admired him, because Lincoln also wanted a free America and free slaves 100 years before
-he held the speech at Lincoln memorial

Question 6

Listen to the following excerpt from British Prime Minister harold Macmillans 1960 “Wind of change” speech to the Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town and answer the questions:
a) Which exact words does Macmillan use to reject apartheid in South Africa?

Answer 6

The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. There can be no superior race above the other.

Question 7

b) What would be the consequences for South Africa if Apartheid was not finished?

Answer 7

-Positive political results for Britain
- to be economically free

Question 8

a) What does Dasgupta mean by “Hyphanated Identities”?

Answer 8

-People belong to multiple groups (ethnic, religion, regional)
-their total personalities aren’t involved in any of them
-this can be explained by from the perspective of future stress (people that are subjected to too much change find “enclaves in the past”)

Question 9

b) What causes people to “recreate some parts of the vanished worlds they once inhabited”?

Answer 9

-They take traditions/known typical things with them e.g. German Oktoberfest
-comission an architect to construct a church they know from home

Question 10

c) How does Edan define the “sari-samosa syndrome”?

Answer 10

-Reducing culture to specific icons/superficial
-tokenism as opposed to deeper knowledge about tradition

Question 11

hat is Dasguptas vision of Canadian multicultural society?

Answer 11

-It is something good: “Canadians are clinging to their varied cultural heritages – and we are all better for it”
-deep-seated part of people to hold on to their roots, impossible for people to shed their identities