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Welcome to our
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Chapter 4 : Identity
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Chapter 4 : Identity 5 Class
1 The four nations 6 Men and Women
• Scottish
• Wales Identity
• North Ireland 7 Social everyday contact
2 Other identities
(Non-native British)
8 Religion and Politics
3 The family
9 Being British
4 Geographical Identity
10 Personal identity: sense of humor
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THE FOUR NATIONS
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Important aspects of public life
(education, law and religion) are
organized separately from the rest of
Britain. Scotland even prints its own
banknotes.
• Scottish way of speaking English is very
distinctive
e.g: dialects spoken by the working class
in the lowland cannot be understood
by those not Scottish
• Many symbols of Scottishness are well
known: lion rampant, thistle
[Link] identity
•Wales don’t have many reminders of their Welshness
in everyday life
•Their public life is similar to that in England
•A large minority of the people don’t consider
themselves to be especially Welsh
•Feeling of loyalty to Wales is often similar in
nature to the fairly weak loyalties to particular
geographical areas found throughout
England
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A national hero for the Welsh
Owain Glyndwr ( Owen Glendower in English)
- A Welsh leader who led a fierce and long-running war
of independence with the aim of ending English rule
in Wales during the Late Middle Ages
Welsh language
•The important symbol of Wales is Welsh language
•The mother tongue of 20% of the population
•It shows signs of continued vitality. It receives a lot of
public support (used at school, in mass media, etc)
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c/Identity in Northern Ireland
• Ethnicity, family, politics and religion are all inter-related
• Social class has a comparatively minor role in establishing
identity
• Northern Ireland is a polarized society: born and stay in one
community for their whole life
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Other ethnic identities
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The peoples of the four nations have been in contact for
centuries.
They look the same, eat the same food, have the same religious
heritage (Christianity) , learn the same language first (English)
and have the same attitudes to the roles of men and women.
The situation for the several million people in Britain in the
world is different.
The longest-established of these groups are black Caribbeans.
The cultural practices of black Caribbeans are nearest to those
of the white majority.
The first wave of Asian immigration to Britain took place at
about the same time as chat from the Caribbean. The second
took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The term ‘ASIAN', masks some significant cultural
differences.
☺What does it mean to be English?
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Stonehenge
Portrait of Henry VIII of
England – Holbein, Hans el
Joven
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The family
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- Family identity is rather weak and the notion
of family has a generally low profile.
- Significant family events are not
automatically accompanied by large
gatherings of people.
- Family gatherings of any kind beyond the
household unit are rare.
The family unit is still the basic living
arrangement for most people.
- The average number of people living in
each household in Britain is lower than the
European average.
- The stereotypical nuclear family of a
married father and mother and their children
became much less common in the last
quarter of 20th century:
+ More than 40% of children born outside
marriage.
+ 85% of children are born to parents who,
married or not, are living together.
+ About half the children live with the same
two parents for the whole of their childhood.
- Many people have less respect for the
formalities of marriage.
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GEOGRAPHICAL
IDENTITY
- A sense of identity based on place of
birth is not very common or strong in most
parts in Britain.
--> People are just too mobile and very
few live in the same place all their lives
- There is somewhat more of a sense of
identity with a larger geographical area.
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CLASS
George Orwell( 1903-1950)
“England is the most class-ridden
country under the sun. It is a land of
snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by
the old and silly.”
But what exactly is class and where does it
become ?
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Traditionally Britain was split into 3 different classes:
Upper class Middle class Lower class
---> find it difficult to become friends with people
from the different background, most people say
they do not approve of clear class differences
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Low-class accent Middle-class accent Upper-class accent
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PRECARIAT
(POOREST)
15%
EMERGENT SERVICE WORKERS
(LOW ECO BUT HIGH SOCIAL AND
CUTURAL)
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TRADITIONAL
WORKING CLASS
14%
NEW AFFLUENT
WORKERS
MODERATE
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TECHNICAL
MIDDLE CLASS
ESTABLISHED
MIDDLE CLASS
(2ND WEALTHIEST)
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ELITE
(most privileged class)
6%
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Men & Women
- Society no longer openly acknowledges differences in
public and social roles for men and women.
- Discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal
- Unconsciously display many differences in the behaviors
and roles of men and women
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[Link] habits and manners
Show more stark differences between the sexes than most other
European societies
• A man to look untidy or women to dress modestly everywhere
• The daily expression of feelings and emotions: women vs men
The number of discriminatory situations like this is being reduced by
everyone's efforts
2. Roles of women and men in the family
The gender divide has sharply decreased over. They will still add
responsibilities to the woman, not the man. Means that although the idea of
gender equality has been popularized, society's behavior has not kept up
with it.
- Financial situation of the family is not only the responsibility of the man
- Childcare and housework have always been considered a woman's
primary
Enough to show us that sexism is still happening implicitly in our lives,
not only in the UK but also everywhere in the world.
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- Hope that in the future men will
share all the responsibilities of
women in household chores.
- In a 2003, British men scored on
the 'gender equality index' of 94
- And in 2020, the UK has scored
72.6 and ranked 6
A large number of occupations are no longer
men-only or women-only
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With regard to positions of power and influence
there have been changes:
-The first European countries to have a female Prime Minister and a
female debate chairwoman in its parliament.
-1/5 MPs are women
-1/9 university heads were women
-The executives in the top 100 companies of the UK, women <5%
-2007, female medical students are more than men and 12% of
professors at British medical schools are women.
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Social and everyday
contacts
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British people give a high importance to their everyday personal contacts
The places british desire to belong
Work is also a factor that helps many people know others.
However, self-identification should not be overemphasized.
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Religion and Politics
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Religion and politics in England are not too related as well as
influencing each other.
Religion and politics have little impact on aspects of their lives
Religion and marriage in Britain
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Being British
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- The largest possible sense of identity that a
British person could feel is that they are BRITISH.
Do they feel they belong to Britain?
-> The answers seem 'not very' and 'not really'.
The 2001 census about 'national identity’ shows:
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The national flag is not important?
-> The answer is that British people are
not normally actively patriotic.
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- The subject of 'Britishness' become a topic of great
public concern:
• It reflects the need to find common values in a
multicultural society.
• It is the realization that the UK now has far less
influence on the rest of the world.
• It is the fear that the UK might break up.
- In 2006, the government suggested a British
national day.
-> Many people scoffed at the idea.
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- Therefore, the majority of
UK choose the date of birth
of Queen Elizabeth II to be
the National Day for Britain.
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Personal identity:
a sense of humor
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Rowan Atkinson Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr
- The iconic personal
quality of British people
is a sense of humour.
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- A mildly funny remark is appreciated
in all but the most formal situations.
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attention
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