Street, rice and peas, ghetto, low-slung trousers, grime - all things many people link with black British culture. But what exactly is black British culture? Does it still exist and do you have to be black to be part of it?
- - Food (yam, chicken)
- - Caribbean food
- - Black style-fashion allowed them to feel more comfortable
- - Heritage
- - Thought of Britain as the mother land
- - Patois
- - Popular symbol-Jamaican patois
- - Elements of everyday life
- - Embrace the lifestyle you are in
- - May lose the original culture you are from but it is constantly developing
- - Embracing leads to harmony in communities
- - Do not have to be the colour to embrace the culture
- - Adjusting to new life wasn’t easy
- - Half a dozen people living in one house
- - Had to find their own way of socialising because they weren’t able to go into many of the white peoples places of socialising
- - Working allowed black people to get some acceptance
- - Dressing up well on Sundays
- - Black people wanted to look the best
- - Prejudice made black people resist keeping up their culture
- - Began mixing the two generations by bring children over along with parents so they would be growing up with the white children
- - Afro, large trousers, john Lennon type sunglasses
- - Reggae music
- - Early 80s mix of English and black clothes
- - 90s impact of America- hip-hop
- - baseball cap, puffer jackets, low-slung jeans
