Ghettos in the north

NoName--w-- · Anmeldungsdatum: 07.02.2007 Beiträge: 6

Der Text "Ghettos in the north" müssen wir lesen!
Habe ich bereits auch schon gemacht un den Text habe ich mir in Deutsch übersetzten lassen. Allerdings ist diese sehr durcheinander *g* aber selber komme ich auch nicht so weit...

Meine Aufgabe dazu ist: "What ways of easing social tension does the writer mention? What do you think of these suggestions?"

Was meine Vorschläge nachher sind, kann man ja sehen... aber ich finde die Hauptaspekte die ich beantworten muss, nicht heraus.
Ich weiß das es über Aufstände verschiedener "Kulturen" geht.. Über Ethnische Trennungen, dass sich nachher nich vile geändert hat. Eine andere Ursache war die Ökonomische Abnahme, das weiße und asiatische Männer miteinander lebten... das sich das Ghetto vereiingt hat und gewachsen ist und das man die Gemeinschaft dazu anregen muss, sich in der Welt zu engagieren.

So einzelne Punkte.. aber vielleicht könntet ihr mir helfen, wozu sich meien Frage genau bezieht grübelnd

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Many heads will be banging together drawing up the terms of reference for the new home secretary's review of last month's riots in Oldham. It is crucial that they get it right.
Oldham is a snapshot of other post-industrial northern towns. Nearby Rochdale, Burnley (where there was violence at the weekend), Bury and Bradford, as well as cities further afield like Birmingham, share similar economic depression and ethnic tension.

The recent report warning of the dangers of segregation in Bradford is timely. Ethnic separation is the key to understanding inner-city strife. In 1990 an Oldham council report into housing allocation revealed disturbing discrimination against Asians. The document was leaked to the commission for racial equality which in 1993 declared a verdict of "unlawful discrimination".
It found Asians did indeed spend longer on waiting lists, were more likely to be offered lower-quality housing, and were segregated on specific estates around the town centre.

What has changed? Not a lot that anybody can show. The CRE did complete a five-year plan of reforms with the council, one of which was the institution of ethnic monitoring. But the council still cannot, or is too embarrassed to, provide an accurate picture of how its "Asian" tenants are spread. Worse still, the comically inept CRE "cannot find" the final status report on its work in Oldham.

Oldham's estate agents did their bit for segregation too. In 1990 a separate CRE investigation found two firms guilty of "redlining", or setting limits to where Asians could buy. It is in such discrimination that the roots of Oldham's "no-go areas" lie, not the bombast of teenage gangs.

Economic decline has been another cause. When the cotton mills flourished 30 years ago, the Asian areas were ethnically mixed. Older residents in riot-hit Glodwick recall with some fondness when white and Asian men lived and worked side by side. With the collapse of manufacturing, the working-class areas fell into decline. Whites moved out in search of greener pastures, followed by the Afro-Caribbeans.

The Asians, mainly Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, stayed behind. Mostly from rural Punjab, Kashmir or Sylhet, unskilled and uneducated, those who didn't work in the factories set up small retail or catering businesses, usually to service their own communities. Their relatives arrived, mainly through marriage, and took up the slack left by the departing whites. As their areas became racially particular and the economic depression deepened, house prices hit the floor attracting even more Asian buyers. And so the ghetto has consolidated and grown. Grange school in Glodwick now has a 98% Bangladeshi roll. This is the reality of modern multicultural Britain: a whole generation growing up deprived of any contact with people unlike themselves, their horizons bounded by the invisible but very real walls of the ghetto.

The same applies to the white working-class estates in Oldham where an entrenched underclass has inherited, and will pass on, poverty, crime and unemployment. Segregation also explains the resentment caused by urban regeneration grants. Because whole neighbourhoods are now racially distinctive, a grant for one area is perceived as an award to an ethnic group. If people live apart they grow apart.

The breach, as the town's election results show, is an open invitation for the xenophobes of the British National party. Letting ethnic groups develop distinctive identities has failed because it has not been balanced by a corresponding emphasis on integration. We need to encourage communities to engage with the wider world, not reward them for becoming reclusive and defensive.

Forget Asian versus white. Before they joined forces to battle the police, Pakistani and Bangladeshi youths in Glodwick were usually fighting each other. Tension can be traced back 3,000 miles and 30 years to the separation of east and west Pakistan. To the ire of local Pakistanis, a new housing development in Westwood is the preserve of Bangladeshi families. They may all be Muslims, but the groups even have their own mosques.

Intermarriage is still a matter of some scandal. However, not all is gloom. A local multi-denominational group is about to launch "Connect" with the aim of bringing together young people of different backgrounds The Al-Aqsa housing association has adopted a multi-ethnic approach to accommodating Muslims.

It hasn't taken rocket scientists to develop these solutions, just people with a sense of duty, sincerity and some will. Getting people to live, work and play together is not asking too much, is it?

Kaeltor · Anmeldungsdatum: 07.01.2007 Beiträge: 17

Beim spontanen durchlesen finde ich nur 2.5 Dinge, die er erwähnt, die die Spannungen verringern würden. Da alle 2.5 (ja klingt komisch, is aber so Zunge raus

) in den letzten 4 Abschnitten stehen solltest du evtl. auch den ersten Teil des Textes zusammenfassen um dann in deiner Stellungsnahme besser sagen zu können, welche der beschriebenen Probleme so gelöst werden könnten und welche nicht!
Also Hilfe hab ich dir mal die 2.5 stellen markiert die ich spontan gefunden hab ^^:

NoName--w-- · Anmeldungsdatum: 07.02.2007 Beiträge: 6

Oki.. dann sag ich schonmal Danke Augenzwinkern

und versuch die Aufg. dann gleich mal