Black British Culture

Listening to the radio show on about black British culture I have learnt a lot about how black people feel about their nationality and how they feel their culture has changed Britain. Some of the key elements that black people felt they have changed are food, clothes, language and music.

They have changed the way chicken is tasted and enjoyed, and the way it is seasoned with different herbs and Black people are often stereotyped when it comes to chicken. 

Black people feel they have brought different and new ways to wear clothes and the new trends to Britain. Including baggy jeans. Often wearing puffy jackets lose cut jeans and baseball cap’s is called ‘acting black’ a phrased used often. But they still wear their best clothes every Sunday to church.

When the great British Empire faded this is when people started the mass immigration to the UK, they came to fill in labor shortness and had very high expectations of Britain but they were forced into crowded accommodation. Black people know that when their parents first came to Britain, the white people were very racist and made it clear that they black community weren’t welcome. But laws and supporters made it easy for black and white people to live peacefully eventually.

The people in the radio extract believe that black people have a way of talking that people have heard and copied earning its way into the slang and swear words category. ‘You know what I mean’

I also learn that from the radio extract that when black people first came to Britain, they weren’t aloud in certain places so like clubs and bars so they formed their own, and had their own youth center and house parties. Music was something else that black people brought to Britain and they have a passion for music and dancing and bands like the Jackson 5 became popular and Reggie become a well known ‘black music’ but now everyone listens to this type of music.