Fact file • Most ethnic minority British citizens originally came from countries belonging to the Commonwealth. Black people mainly arrived from the Caribbean, most Asians were immigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. • Afro-Caribbean people are from former slave families from Africa, many of whom were transported to the Caribbean by British ships and sold to British plantation owners until Britain stopped the slave trade there in 1807. • Until the middle of the 20th century the British population was mainly white. After 1945 the mass immigration of Blacks (from the Caribbean) and Asians was started by the need for more workers in the British economy. • In the beginning Empire and Commonwealth citizens had the right to enter Britain because they carried a British passport. By the 1970s new and stricter rules were introduced to control immigration. • Most immigrants arriving in the UK after Brexit come from countries outside Europe, mainly Asia. • The fastest-growing ethnic group in the UK today is mixed race. F 21 Goals • Discuss social issues. • Analyse text structures (article, essay). • Summarise texts. • Present statistical information. • Structure paragraphs and texts. • Develop a fluent writing style. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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