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Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations. Many Britons are voicing concern at the scale of immigrants and are hostile towards interracial couples. Refugees and immigrants who have been coming from Indian, Bangladesh and the West Indies have always been victims of racial abuse in Britain. The colour and culture of these people was quite different to most Britons. Britons had never before experienced immigration in such huge numbers. The increasing numbers of immigrants who came into the country especially in the 1950s and 1960s has caused some serious problems.
When people had come to Britain from Indian, Pakistan or the West Indies they had hardly anything. They had no money, they hadn’t known anybody and they couldn’t even speak English. They were lonely and feel foreign and the only way to meet people from their home countries was to settle in marginalised neighbourhoods/run-down council estates. They hadn’t any choice, either! Unfortunately, these cottages are separated from British society and aren’t well equipped with sanitary installations, infrastructure and current sink.
They just try to fit in and be a part of everything around them but they still have to face disadvantages in education and employment but also verbal discrimination. It’s very difficult for these people to get a job though, they are well educated. There’s no doubt that ethnic minority groups are more concern with unemployment than the white populations. If they are lucky in getting a job coloured people get often paid less and are the first to be fired in an economic crisis. It’s conspicuous that most immigrants are employed in various branches of industry and in the service sector (bus driver, electrician, dustmen etc.). Of course, not all of them are engaged in menial tasks. The professional immigrants, particularly Asians found employment as doctors and teachers. They could find such a high employment because they already had a high position in their native county.
Many immigrants living in Britain today are second-generation immigrants, which means that their parents were immigrants. This generation face often problems with integration and adaptation. They are torn between the modern Western culture and the traditional native way of life (dichotomy between the modern Western culture on the one hand and the traditional native culture). Therefore, they mostly don’t know to which life style they belong to. They are British and at the same time Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs as well.
On the one hand the second-generation immigrants were born in Britain, grew up in Britain and have been educated in British schools; the way they walk, talk and dress is British. So many children and grandchildren of immigrant ancestors eventually made their home Britain.
Nevertheless, they share on the other hand a common religious identity with their parents. Their parents abide still customs and rituals, for example wearing long dresses and observe a strict diet. The wives have to be obedient, demure, dependent and subordinate to their husbands. Their task is to cook traditional meals, look after the children and organise important celebration, such as arranged weddings. In India it’s tradition that parents choose the husband or the wife for their child, as soon as it’s old enough to marry. They then present their choice to the child who had no alternative but to accept. The self-realisation of women weren’t note. It’s such a life than 150 years ago in Germany. Some Indian families live still as the system of joint families. A joint family includes married brothers and their families, as well as unmarried brothers and sisters, all living under a roof. The eldest male member of the family has authority over all members. Belongings are shared.
The second-generation immigrants in Britain have a dual identity. They live in a Western culture and treat English but are of descent origin. But coming home to their families, they souse into another world. It should be no problem for them to keep their rituals, ideals and moral standards of their community and they should still maintain and preserve their own culture, traditions, language and values; after all, they have an Eastern origin. They should be proud of their heritage and should never forget their roots.
However, the second generation immigrants should try to adapt their lifestyles to the British culture. After all, they were born here and they are going to stay. They should adapt themselves to Britain. But immigrant parents should allow their children to develop their own set of values and moral standards, whether they are British or not.
A good example is the book Life isn’t all Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal. It’s about three Indian women who had grown up in Britain but they often feel alienated from society and they are irresolute about their own identity. (Newly married Chila, a Punjabi girl, is still close to her childhood confidantes Sunita, a former activist and law student turned depressed housewife and mother, and Tania, who rejected marriage in favour of a high-powered career in television) Finally, each of them goes her own way and handles differently with her dual cultures.
Another example for the problems of integration of immigrants is the short story “My son the fanatic” by Hanif Kureishi. The story is based on the difference between the very religious son Ali and his westernise father Parvez. They have different attitudes of keeping rituals and customs so they misunderstand each other all the time.
A further instance is the film “Kick it like Backham” by Narinder Dhami. The story is about an Indian girl, called Jess, who wants to play football like her hero David Beckham. She joins a football team and gets very successful but her parents don't want her to play because their daughter should behave like an Indian woman and be able to be a good housewife soon.
She has to decide between football and her family, between the Western way of life and the Indian culture and with there are a lot of problems which come up to Jess.
I am of the opinion that it isn’t so hard for Eastern women as it is delineate in many texts. Many Eastern-born and Western-born women are nowadays more integrate into society. They have the opportunity to study and most young people don’t let the parents choose their spouse anymore. They choose their darling themselves, although the wedding is still traditionally arranged.
Everyone should live in a society, where their religious and cultural values are respected and allowed to be expressed freely. Though, in a way in which other people don’t feel bothered by it. Diverse cultures should interact with each other and should show more understanding.
Ethnic minorities need to get more involved in society so they don’t need to feel teased about the colour of their skin or their descent any more. All citizens irrespective of colour, creed, religion or race should get an opportunity to realize their potential.
We should bear in mind that a multi-racial society with many different ethnic minority groups is an enrichment for many areas in life like education, employment and for the whole society in general. The colour of a person’s skin is not important; the only thing that counts is a person’s character. We need more tolerance and acceptation for minority groups in Britain and elsewhere in order to live together in peace and harmony.