black britons
Publié le 17/05/2020
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« Text Black Britons This document is a press article from the Guardian, published in 2011. It deals with the integration of black people from the Caribbean and African heritage in Britain. Before the sixties, their ties with their countries of origin were very strong, thus they felt more Black than British. Moreover, in the sixties, this sense of belonging to a “black community” became stronger with the emergence of the fight for Civil Rights in the USA (Martin Luther king, Malcolm X…) But throughout the decade, black people started to feel more and more British, and they may consider themselves “Black Britons”. Nowadays, they are wellintegrated and don’t feel any distinction between their ethnicity and nationalities, since new generations were born and bred in Britain. So we can say that the diversity of origins in Britain is a benefit, being Britain doesn’t refer to any ethnical identity, but it means belonging to a political union. But in the meantime, people who are from British origins feel closer to their region, or even to Europe. Indeed, the English and the Scots don’t have the same cultural heritage, and the links between the members of the union are weakening. Britain has always been multicultural and the British identity is made of contrasts, but it might be the beginning of a new era, where people tend to open their minds to wider borders…. »
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