New Commonwealth immigrants formed numerousethnic groups based on common language, religion and race. ... The first Afro Caribbeans arrived in 1948 to work in public transport, manufacturing and the National Health Service.According to the Office for National Statistics figures for 1999, the 900.000 members of all-Black groups now make up 1.5% of the population. ... The Asian community is composed of several groups based on 7 main languages further divided into numerous dialects. Some groups have to resort to a second language, such as English, in order to integrate. ... According to the Offic...

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For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its Constitution to the daily practices of its citizens--is a response to the absent/objectified presence of the black Other or, in her words, "to a dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence" (5). She goes on to say: Just as the formation of the nation necessitated coded language and purposeful restrictions ... so too did the literature, whose founding characteristics extend into the twentieth...

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The nuanced nature of this question has given birth to the National Identity Crisis. ... This perspective however can be seen to be inaccurate when one looks at the point of view of Peter Ferrara, an associate professor at George Mason University of Law in a commentary on National Review. ... Philip Gleason a professor emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame put it this way "To be or to become an American, a person did not have to be any particular national, linguistic, religious, or ethnic background. ... Another common viewpoint on the National Identity Crisis is that Americ...

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The play demonstrates the language and cultural barriers experienced by immigrants to the city as they mouth the words of the actors to themselves in order to learn English. ... Certain structures give credit to the presence of national identity in the novels. ... Characters in both novels dismiss their own national identity for a time while living in particular environments. ... When the lens focuses on Almasy's true national identity, the picture becomes uglier with clarity. ... Kip's occupation during World War II as a sapper explores ideas of national identity in The English Pati...

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The prevailing racial distinctions and hierarchy that characterized colonialism via the institution of slavery have historically prevented any systematic attempt to create a distinct national cultural identity. This essay is going to examine in detail, how exactly the British Colonization of Jamaica prevented Jamaicans from developing a national cultural identity of their own. ... The bi-polar societies in the Caribbean seem to undermine any attempt of creating a national identity. ... She struggles to find whether her identity lies in her nationality, her social stratification, her race, her...

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Nationalism is a nation's pride in its culture, language, and history. ... "It can drive a state into expansionist military conflicts in an attempt to increase the nation's power or to bring within the nation's borders national groups living outside. ... Multiply this on a national scale and you have nationalism. ... Why do we have such a bloody past that stemmed from a term that represents national pride and unity? ...

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A "multicultural society" is one consisting of people from a diverse variety of national, linguistic, religious and cultural backgrounds. ... Almost half of this number live in London and almost 300 different languages are spoke in all of the capital's schools. ... In May 2002 the far-right British National Party won three local council seats, a year after racial tensions and were blamed for riots in northern towns. ...

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Like anything else, the story of this event quickly rose to national attention through the networking and distribution of media and news outlets. ... Under the leadership of a political, national, figure in Sharpton whom leads the way in keeping racism relevant it seems that it spreads light on how a figure of the media can fuel the peoples fire on racism. ...

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A nation-state is a political unit consisting of an autonomous state inhabited predominately by a people sharing a common culture, history, or language. ... Returning to India in 1912, he practiced law for some years and in 1919, he joined the Indian National Congress, the principal nationalist organization of India. ...

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Florida seemed to be getting lots of national attention in the media due to racial crisis in the justice system. ... He never used a curse word toward them and was edged on by the young men taunting him and threatening him with very hateful language. ...

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It's language is explicit: "No State shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ... The National Merit Scholarship has one standard for African Americans, and one for the rest of the applicants. ...

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