By Valerie Alia, Simone Bull
This ebook addresses cross-cultural representations of ethnic minority peoples through dominant society 'outsiders' and indigenous self-representation within the context of the 'New Media Nation'. In doing so, it explores the position of language, tradition, id and media in liberation struggles and the emergence of latest political entities, and opens up problems with colonial oppression to public debate. it really is meant to assist tell coverage in various settings. Grounded in present views on diaspora and native land and drawing on Alia's paintings on minorities, media and id in addition to Bull's paintings on Maori socio-cultural concerns and criminalisation of minorities, this quantity bargains a comparative, overseas viewpoint at the studies of a vast variety of ethnic minority peoples. those comprise Inuit and primary countries humans in Canada; local american citizens and African americans within the usa; Sami in northern Europe; Maori in New Zealand; Aboriginal humans in Australia and Roma in eire and Britain.Features *Teaching and studying routines accompany each one bankruptcy *Includes strategies for additional interpreting, listening and viewing *Contains a entire record of ethnic minority media within the united kingdom.
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However, one of the characters in the novel speculates that a passage in the Qu’ran may not be the word of God. Since the Islamic faith is deeply committed to the view that the Qu’ran is in fact the word of God, it is considered unacceptable to question this. In 1989, the pre-eminent Iranian Muslim leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa – a death warrant – against Salman Rushdie. Rushdie went into hiding. Muslims all over the world expressed support for the fatwa by staging public burnings of the book.
The social cost myth portrays asylum seekers and refugees as a threat to ‘the British way of life’. Baird (2002: 9) argues that asylum seekers and refugees are portrayed as ‘different from us’, as not sharing ‘our’ values, customs, languages or religion and as swamping ‘our’ culture. This view was promulgated by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her infamous 1978 speech claiming that ‘people are really afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture’ (Callinicos 1992: 16).
Where a moral panic is followed by social and legislative action, the public is reassured that there is strong leadership from the government (McRobbie and Thornton 1995: 562). The government’s predilection for implementing repressive legislation against asylum seekers and refugees, as in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act (2002) – the fourth major piece of asylum legislation in a decade – can be seen as an attempt to win support. However, ‘folk devils can and do fight back’ (McRobbie and Thornton 1995: 559) and seize opportunities to capture media (and therefore, public) attention and foreground their own agendas, perspectives and voices.
