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