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Social divisions are another way of explaining how society is often divided. Payne (2000) refers to them as divisions according to the perceptions of others. ... “Ethnic divisions – are divisions between groups, based upon differences of culture and or physical appearance and are frequently linked to profound social tensions and conflicts.”
When considering divisions, the changes may be linked with the historical events. Such is the case with ethnic divisions within Britain. ... Britain became a multicultural society with races from different ethnic backgrounds, all of which carrying different views and perspectives on living. ...
The key terms are ethnicity and race, but what do these two words actually mean? In the Collins concise Dictionary 2002, the term race means: ‘A group of people of common ancestry, with distinguishing physical features, such as skin colour or build’.
In 1981, only 2% of just over 150,000 immigrants into Britain actually came from the Caribbean; this same trend was also beginning to become apparent with immigrants from the Indian subcontinent in the 1988 when Abercrombie & Warde were writing their book Contemporary British Society. Although the number of immigrants may have decreased this does not necessarily mean that the divisions have. The original migrants from these countries, who now form Britain’s ethnic minorities, have now settled and have families. ... The total number of people in ethnic minority groups within Britain ‘grew by nearly 500,000 between 1992-94 and 1997-99’ (The Guardian, 21/09/01). Then by 2001, Britain’s total population of Caribbean’s was 529,000 – out of the total ethnic minority population of 3,190,000.
Approximate Word count = 1288
Approximate Pages = 5.2
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