英语国家概况(英国部分Unit2).ppt

Do You Know?
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Do You Know?

From the following video clip, can you tell the elements of Britishness?
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Have a general idea of the ethnical composition of the British people
Be informed of the statistics about the British population
Know something about the languages in Britain
Understand the class structure in Britain
Know about Britishness
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An aging country
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What are the elements of the British identity?
Class consciousness
What are the ethnic groups in the UK?
An English-speaking country?
How is the population distributed in the UK?
In historic times, migrants from the European mainland joined the indigenous population of Britain during the Roman Empire and during the invasions of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Normans from Northern and Western Europe.
Names for Britain
1. Ethnic origins
The Irish have long made homes in Great Britain. Many Jews arrived in Britain toward the end of the 19th century and in the 1930s. After 1945 large numbers of other European refugees settled in the country. The large immigrant communities from the West Indies and South Asia date from the 1950s and 1960s. There are also substantial groups of Americans, Australians, and Chinese, as well as various other Europeans, such as Greeks, Russians, Poles, Serbs, Estonians, Latvians, Armenians, Turkish Cypriots, Italians, and Spaniards. Beginning in the early 1970s, Ugandan Asians and immigrants from Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Sri Lanka have sought

2. Immigrants
2. Immigrants

refuge in the UK. People of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi origin account for more than half of the total ethnic minority population, and people of West Indian origin are the next largest group. The foreign-born element of the population is disproportionately concentrated in inner-city areas, and more than half live in Greater London.
Ethnicity in England