Changing Ethnic Identities

Question 1

what theory believes that ethnic identities are changing

Answer 1

• postmodernism

Question 2

hybrid identities

Answer 2

the result of combining two or more types of identities

Question 3

black

Answer 3

• Black white and Asian youths all shared friendships, fashion and spoke the same slang.
• This was evidence of new hybrid identities where all the youths shared the same culture rather than separate ones
• They tried out culture masks and culture borrowing was taking place

Question 4

culture masks

Answer 4

trying out different cultures that they could put on and off

Question 5

gill

Answer 5

Blasian- british Asian student’s identified themselves as these.
- They adopt black styles of dress and language and combined these with their Asian culture

Question 6

blasians

Answer 6

British-asian who adopt black cultures and styles and combine them with their asian culture

Question 7

brasians

Answer 7

british asians who inherit an asian identity and also adopt a white British identity

Question 8

code switching

Answer 8

where ethnic individuals ‘switch to a white’ personality when surrounded with white peers but then switch back to their ethnic persona

Question 9

burdsey

Answer 9

• Second and third generation British Asian footballers.
• He found that they adopted an Asian identity when with their parents but a white identity when with their white peers.
• He refers to this as code switching
• laddish culture

Question 10

nayak

Answer 10

White wannabes- young white working class males who adopt the styles and language of black culture

Question 11

• postmodernism

Answer 11

what theory believes that ethnic identities are changing

Question 12

the result of combining two or more types of identities

Answer 12

hybrid identities

Question 13

• Black white and Asian youths all shared friendships, fashion and spoke the same slang.
• This was evidence of new hybrid identities where all the youths shared the same culture rather than separate ones
• They tried out culture masks and culture borrowing was taking place

Answer 13

black

Question 14

trying out different cultures that they could put on and off

Answer 14

culture masks

Question 15

Blasian- british Asian student’s identified themselves as these.
- They adopt black styles of dress and language and combined these with their Asian culture

Answer 15

gill

Question 16

British-asian who adopt black cultures and styles and combine them with their asian culture

Answer 16

blasians

Question 17

british asians who inherit an asian identity and also adopt a white British identity

Answer 17

brasians

Question 18

where ethnic individuals ‘switch to a white’ personality when surrounded with white peers but then switch back to their ethnic persona

Answer 18

code switching

Question 19

• Second and third generation British Asian footballers.
• He found that they adopted an Asian identity when with their parents but a white identity when with their white peers.
• He refers to this as code switching
• laddish culture

Answer 19

burdsey

Question 20

White wannabes- young white working class males who adopt the styles and language of black culture

Answer 20

nayak