Cultural Changes

Question 1

British culture has changed quite a lot in the last quarter of the century because years ago there was many white people around and when you said British because you would normally see a family that have mixed from the countries England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland which made a white British background and this was the only ethnicity you would have seen. These days there has been a major increase in forgein cultures coming in Great Britain which has made British vary so much from not just having an all white background. They have British that are mixed from white and black, white and Turkish an similar backgrounds. These have changed the way people seeing each other by that everyone is British that lives in Great Britain and no-one will be discriminated by what ethnicity background you have.

Question 2

Britain is a multi-cultural society and we can see this from Coronation street because many years before when the show first got aired and show to the public there wasn't any other ethnicity than white because when the show was made which was in 1960 there wasn't many other ethnicity's than just white, so they didn't have any other cultural backgrounds, just white. We can now see that from the episodes that are present there are many different cultures that are involved in the episodes because these days they need to be realistic to the present day and because there are many different cultures in the episodes they have made it realistic so that people won't feel discriminated against.

This clips shows when the show was recently new and had a white cast and didn't have multi-cultural actors in it.

This clip shows more of a recent show in 2004 where Dev and Sunita get married and shows the way of how their culture get married and shows a multi-cultural event on a programme where before there would only have been white cast members.

Question 3

The British soaps have changed to more of a multi-cultural society because they have put more multi-cultural people in to make it more realistic. This has then made it more appealing to the audience because they would feel that it's more like real life then a fake representation of life.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBLaD3A2jic&feature=fvst this is a clip on youtube which shows a clip of coronation street in the 1960s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvniGV8ftik this shows a clip of coronation street that is more realistic because the clip is from this year.

Question 4

Youth culture has had an impact on British soaps because in the 1960s they didn't have as much youth characters which would have made less youth watch the programme because it wouldn't relate to them but because there was more adults which related to the adults which made the figures of adults watching more of this programme then youths. The picture on the right shows the casting of Coronation street in the 1960s where there are no youth characters which is the cause of more adults watching the programme. The result of less youth watching the programmes was a big impact on the directors decision by involving more youth characters in the cast of the shows. The impact of them adding more youth characters in the programmes has made the show's publicity increase a lot because they had youth and older generations watch the programmes. The picture below on the left shows the cast of Coronation street 2011 which has children, teenagers and adults in their cast which has help the publicity of Coronation street increase.

Question 5

Another cultural change that had a impact on British soap operas was that different cultural restaurants and shops came to Great Britain and caused the soap to also bring them into their episodes. In the days before more forgein shops and restaurants came there was only take aways such as fish and chip shops and they has full English breakfast cafes but these days there are much more forgein foods that are now around such as kebab shops, Indian and Chinese restaurant which is realistic because there are many shops and restaurants around these days. They bring in these so that it shows that more cultures have come into Great Britain which is good because it shows that different cultures have come into Britain and showing that they can fit in and people would enjoy the food.

The picture on the top is a picture of a kebab shop that is coronation street which is a different cultured shop with the traditional kebab meat and on the bottom is a cafe that is a traditional English cafe because they do the full-English breakfast which is a traditional English food.