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beccaelizabethFinished reading Cultural Identities book. Win!
So that's all the set reading plus the bit of the suggested reading list I chose.
Lots of words.
Basically, the s is important. Very plural identities.
Lots of interesting. 27million people call themselves Christian, 2 million go to church. 1.2 million muslims, most of them born here. Big hindu temple. But very few buddhists, and they get bundled in with New Age practices anyway. Rastafarians get more of a mention.
40% of children born in London have at least one black parent. Huh.
And this is a few years ago. I can't imagine we've got less diverse since then.
Quite a lot went out of date quite quickly. Which is kind of cool, when it's talking about the difference between can't and can get married.
My other impression of it was it covered a lot of the stuff from the Sociology book only from a different angle. And with less detail. Well the Sociology book is the Big Blue Book of DOOOOOOOM. It's inches thick. Anything's going to have less detail.
It's possible I read too fast to digest it. :-/
But I'll know a book to go to if I want to look up that kind of stuff.
Britain: Made of Many Parts.
... now I'm having man-on-a-pig thoughts, and possibly Countrycide flashbacks.
... okay, I'm strange, we know this.
So that's all the set reading plus the bit of the suggested reading list I chose.
Lots of words.
Basically, the s is important. Very plural identities.
Lots of interesting. 27million people call themselves Christian, 2 million go to church. 1.2 million muslims, most of them born here. Big hindu temple. But very few buddhists, and they get bundled in with New Age practices anyway. Rastafarians get more of a mention.
40% of children born in London have at least one black parent. Huh.
And this is a few years ago. I can't imagine we've got less diverse since then.
Quite a lot went out of date quite quickly. Which is kind of cool, when it's talking about the difference between can't and can get married.
My other impression of it was it covered a lot of the stuff from the Sociology book only from a different angle. And with less detail. Well the Sociology book is the Big Blue Book of DOOOOOOOM. It's inches thick. Anything's going to have less detail.
It's possible I read too fast to digest it. :-/
But I'll know a book to go to if I want to look up that kind of stuff.
Britain: Made of Many Parts.
... now I'm having man-on-a-pig thoughts, and possibly Countrycide flashbacks.
... okay, I'm strange, we know this.