Eddie Izzard: 'Mo Farah is proof of great multicultural Britain' "This is my country and when I put on my Great Britain vest I'm proud," Mo Farah said after winning the 5000m. Comedian Eddie Izzard says best Olympic moment was Mo Farah's win in 10,000mFarah came to Britain as a Somalian refugee and says he's proud to put on GB vestIzzard: London 2012 will come to be seen as a shining time for UKComic ran 43 marathons for charity in 2009, says he was warmed by British spirit Editor's note: Eddie Izzard is a British comedian and actor who ran 43 marathons across the UK for the charity Sport Relief in 2009.
(CNN) -- There were so many golden moments at the London 2012 Games, but for me, the moment that Team GB's Mo Farah won the 10,000 meters was a wonderful collision of electricity. I was performing stand up, downstairs at the Soho Theatre in London -- I was about fifteen minutes in to the gig when I heard the whole of the cool and trendy Soho district of London explode into noise. Olympics have redefined how Britain sees itself Re-live the London Olympics. Multicultural Britain becoming more segregated – friendship study. We're all in this together: How Leicester became a model of multiculturalism (even if that was never the plan…) - This Britain - UK. She is a vigorous example of female empowerment: a Somali refugee in the Hague, she learnt Dutch and studied for seven years to become a social worker there, while bringing up her six children.
She is also a conservative Muslim, like most of her compatriots. She combines the two – feminism and religious piety – with no apparent strain. And it was because that combination is one that Britain can deal with, while the Continent finds it unacceptable, that she is now happily settled in Leicester. Daahir is under no illusions about what she left behind in Holland. "Holland is a lovely country," she says, "and in terms of housing and health, the system it is much better than here.
And the standard of education is not lower. " Yet, after 10 years living with her children in The Hague, she chose, like thousands of other Somalis settled in Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, to move to Leicester. The murder of Private Lee Rigby two months ago was a watershed. North Korea Local Customs - Culture. Lights, camera, censorship: inside the North Korean film industry. Venerating the Kims: Just one more religion? North Korea: A Prison without Bars. North Korea’s Kim dynasty considers religion a hindrance to the nation’s socialist evolution. For 50 years, its secret police has waged a brutal campaign to eradicate religious belief.
It has nearly succeeded. But the numbers of Christian believers are now slowly rising (maybe even in the low hundreds of thousands) and they must be prepared to pay with their lives for their faith. In the early Sixties, Buddhist shrines and temples and Christian churches were shuttered, and all religious literature and Bibles destroyed.
Religious leaders were either executed or sent to concentration camps. Run like an impregnable fortress, North Korea bans human-rights investigations, and the persecution of religious believers, like other aspects of daily conditions, is barely known. “North Korea is a prison without bars. “There are churches and Buddhist temples in Pyongyang . . . built only for . . . foreigners to attend. “One cannot even say the word ‘religion.’ In culturally homogenous South Korea, tentative steps toward multiculturalism. Cultural homogeneity is a source of pride for many South Koreans — but their nation is going through a demographic change. Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Korean men have married women from Vietnam, Cambodia, China and other Asian countries, and the number of children born to these couples is on the rise.
Enkhjagal Khishigbaatar comes from Mongolia, but her two young sons were born in South Korea, like their father. The boys have Korean names and don’t really speak Mongolian, but Khishigbaatar says she hopes they won’t forget their roots. “I always remind my sons that they are also Mongolian, that they should be proud to be Mongolian," she said.
Mixed families like this are increasingly common in South Korea, according to Hong Inpyo, who heads the Seoul Multicultural Family Clinic. “Multicultural families are really helping out Korea’s low birth rate,” Hong said. “I’ve made friends from Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam," she explained. Discrimination is also a factor. Who is Korean? Migration, Immigration, and the Challenge of Multiculturalism in Homogeneous Societies. Who is Korean? Migration, Immigration, and the Challenge of Multiculturalism in Homogeneous Societies Timothy Lim What is a Korean? “I don’t know,” opines a 31-year old Korean woman. This is arguably most apparent with “Amerasians,” who, in South Korea, are primarily children born to a Korean woman and an American man, usually a U.S. soldier.[4] It is important to note here that it was only in 1998 that non-Korean husbands gained legal rights to naturalize, while non-Korean wives have long had this right.
Given the mistreatment of Amerasians in Korean society, it is not at all surprising that other “out-groups” would have experienced similar treatment. A protest organized by the Migrants Trade Union (MTU), an organization of foreign workers in South Korea, February 18, 2009 (Source: Photograph taken by author) By itself, I should emphasize, a deeply embedded sense of Koreanness is not a bad thing. To support my argument I draw from an unlikely comparative case: Australia.
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2011 Census: Rise in foreign-born residents. 11 December 2012Last updated at 14:52 ET The BBC's Mark Easton says London is "a truly international city" The number of foreign-born residents in England and Wales has risen by nearly three million since 2001 to 7.5 million people, the 2011 census shows. That means about one in eight - 13% - of residents were born outside the UK. The most common birthplaces outside the UK for residents are India, Poland and Pakistan. The number of ethnic white British people is down to 80%. London has become the first region where white British people have become a minority. Some 45% (3.7 million) of people in the capital described themselves as white British, down from 58% (4.3 million) in 2001. The Office for National Statistics said the findings showed a "diverse" and "changing" picture.
More than half the rise in the population of England and Wales was due to migration. Alp Mehmet, from Migration Watch, said the figures showed "how absolutely essential it is that we bring immigration under control". Has multiculturalism failed in the UK? Not really | Anthony Heath. There are three words MP Aidan Burley must want to forget: "leftie multicultural crap. " But it seems the rest of us can't because we were in the throes of a British triumph, and even the cynics were filled with pride. As quickly as one of the Mary Poppins falling from the sky could say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious the outpouring from Downing Street came – "we do not agree", "Burley has behaved in a manner which is offensive and foolish", "Burley was completely wrong, an idiotic thing to say" – followed by voice after voice condemning him from every corner of our multicultural society.
But, was it not David Cameron who declared the failure of multiculturalism in the UK just last year in his speech at a security conference in Munich? No wonder he was so quick to distance himself from Burley – reopening this debate just as a multicultural triumph falls his way could be just a little uncomfortable. And what of radicalisation?