Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi in Great Britain
The people called British Asian came to GB in corollary of the long colonial rule in India. Pakistan and Bangladesh are former party of colonial India.
In 2001 1.8 percent of the UK’s population was British Indian. That amounts 50.2 percent of the UK’s non-white population.
The group of Pakistanis in Great Britain is the second largest Pakistani group abroad Pakistan itself.
An interesting article: Asian Indians in Great Britain: A Success Story? from which I quote the conclusion:
“It can be stated that the immigration of Asian Indians is a success story. Asian Indians are a success-oriented people. Education is a very important values to them. However, family ties are even more important to them. Therefore many of them were not willing to leave their “home towns” in Great Britain when may industrial jobs were lost. They preferred to seek ways into self-employment rather than leaving their family clusters. Self-employment has become very prevalent among Asian Indians, partly because they refused to move their families into more prosperous areas once many Asian Indians had lost their jobs and partly because it was also a way to avoid racism and discrimination on the labour market. Racism remains a problem to all ethnic minorities. However, Asian Indians are very likely to become victims to racist attacks and burglary.
Today second and third generation Asian Indians show better school performances than their White peers. Many of them attend private schools and are diligent learners who are very likely to achieve good GCSE and A-level results, as well as university degrees. Intergenerational problems between parents and children are a result of discrepancies between the eastern cultural heritage of their families and the western values they are exposed to at school. Usually Asian Indian children learn how to negotiate between these different values. They learn how to deal with their parents` expectations and the more liberal British culture. Second generation Asian Indians have to find their own way how to deal with the conflicting and polarized cultural issues they have to face in their daily lives being British of Asian Indian origin.”
Pakistani dresses:
For women
For men
The colonial history of Kenya/ British East Africa
Colonial history
Already in the 1840th European missionaries protected by the sultan of Zanzibar settled in Kenya. In 1885 Kenya’s history as a colony began. It became a German protectorate until the Germans gave the area to the Imperial British East Africa Company also working with permission from the sultan of Zanzibar in 1888. Kenya was now part of British East Africa. Seven years later the British government declared Kenya as their protectorate because the Company nearly collapsed. In 1902 Uganda was affiliated to British East Africa and the highland was freed to settle.
In 1920 British East Africa became the colony of Kenya.
more information: History of Kenya
The Mau Mau Uprising
The very special and terrible in the Kenyan history is the Mau Mau Uprising (1952- 1957) against the British colonial rule. Originally it was a movement against the discrimination of Kenyan farmers. The revolt was influenced by cruelty and hardness. Thousands of people had to die because of the two-sided violence.
More than 1000 Africans were hanged because of quick adopted Terrorist Acts, ten thousands of Africans were imprisoned for years and more than 100.000 people had to relocate.
Life in jail was absolutely dreadful because of withholding of food, forced labor, sexual assaults, strokes and torture.
In Great Britain the resistance against the proceeding in Kenya grew more and more.
In the course of the abolition of the revolt by the British and the rethinking the government gave the Kenyan the independence in 1963.
One year later Kenya became a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as the first president.
Problems after the independence
The colonial rulers left an underdeveloped state without any base behind. The countries were directed to the particular ruler’s economy. Right from the start there was just few hope that the ex-colonies could revive. So most of the new governments tried to practise the same strategy as the colonial rulers did: a highly controlled state with no upward mobilities to avoid any opposition. This strategy called one-party system was also practised in Kenya until 1990.
Facharbeit- my first ideas of a topic
Today our task was to brainstorm about our topic of the Facharbeit.
At first I deliberated about the two big topics “Globalization” and “Africa”.
I chose Africa as my topic because I’m very interested in the culture, the different way of living and the problems. Furthermore, I think it is a multifaced topic with many different possibilities to work on.
Another reason why I picked Africa is, that I really like reading and so I already read many books about Africa. I remembered a book, in which a woman called Waris Dirie tells her story as her biography. She lived in the desert of Somalia as a nomad and was a victimto the genital mutilation which is typical for her home country. At the age of 13 she ran away from home because she should marry an old man. So she worked as a housemaid with her uncle in London until she was discovered as a model at the age of 18. It took a long time until she was able to speak about her fate.
Today she is UN advocate for the abolition of female genital mutilation.
So at the moment I think about picking the book as the base of my Facharbeit because it deals with the topic Africa and it contains a problem which I could handle.
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