Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Traditional ethnic identities
- Family
- Ghuman
- Asian children tend to be socialised into extended family with the emphasis
on duty, loyalty, honour and religious commitment
- Anwar
- Family can be a source of conflict for some Asian children around the issues of
Western clothes, arranged marriage and freedom.
- BBC Panorama 'Britain's Crimes of Honour'
- In extreme cases honour killings have occured where a girl has been
deemed to dishonour the family
- Butler
- 2nd generation Muslim women adopting both cultures and rejecting some
traditional values seen as more Asian than Muslim
- Education
- Driver and Ballard
- Indian families place a great value on their
children's education. High ambitions and want them
to get the best grades
- Archer and Francis
- British- Chinese students saw educational success is
part of their identity, Chinese boys maintain a
commitment to school.
- Coard
- School is institutionally racist. The curriculum is based
around a particular cultural view point while ignoring
others. The National Curriculum is ethnocentric
- Gillborn
- Teachers are institutionally racist towards black boys. They therefore
negatively stereotype and label them. Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Hendessi
- 52% of Bangladeshi and 40% of Pakistani women leave school without qualifications, dominate culture
advocates early marriage and motherhood this is there primary role so they do not need an education
- Media
- Alexander
- Asian youths have been unfairly targeted by the police and the media. 'Myth of
the Asian Gang'. Clashes are exaggerated by the media. Asians are criminalised as
a result of Islamaphobia
- Sewell
- Media is a strong influence on identity, use role models from the media such as rappers. They promote messages about
violence, getting rich quick, objectification of women and the importance of consumer culture
- Religion
- Butler
- Religion is still an influence on young muslim women
- Ghuman
- Asian children socialised into values of religious commitment
- Peer Group
- Cashmore and Troyna
- Turning inwards
- Hebdige
- Rastafarianism black youths felt excluded and alienated from
White British society so created their own community
- Sewell
- Hyper masculine black caribbean boys are influenced by their peer
group to be anti-school. 'Cultural comfort zones'