Bonus episode - Ep: 2 The Things that made England - Ska

10 American Presidents Podcast

Roifield Brown

News, History, Society & Culture, News & Politics

4.5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Racial diversity is one of many facets that separates England from the other parts of the United Kingdom. While the UK’s White population totals over 55,010,359 or 87.1% according the 2011 census, just under 13% or over 7.5 million are non white. Over 90% of all British ethnic minorities live in England and most of them can be found in its cities of Birmingham, London, Leicester, Luton, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Coventry and Watford. It’s the arrival of the first mass wave of non white immigrants in 1948 on the Empire Windrush, that really started modern England, a country comfortable enough to say its favourite food is curry and where “Jafacian” is could displace cockney as the dialect of the capitol’s kids. This episode is broadly about that viewed through the prism of one aspect of English culture, Ska.

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0:00.0	I'm a familiar voice to you because what I am is a professional podcaster.
0:05.7	You probably weren't expecting this show, but I've decided to put it on the feed because it plays
0:11.0	into some of the themes that if you listen to me, whether it's dum-de-dum or mid-Atlantic or even
0:18.1	how Jamaica conquered the world, I talk about a lot. It's my love of being
0:23.9	English but also my Jamaican heritage and how that is important in viewing a sense of identity.
0:32.6	David and I recorded this show some months ago, way before the Windra scandal made its way into the popular
0:40.2	consciousness of the Abbey Brit. So it's timely that this week we spoke about Scar in a very
0:47.5	lighthearted and fun way, an incredibly important marker in the way that England saw itself
0:54.0	in the late 70s and 80s.
0:56.4	It's not an overly academic conversation, as I said before, it is fun, but I think it's important.
1:02.8	And I think also that not only is it timely, as I said before, but also if you like the show,
1:09.6	why don't go on to a podcaster of your choice and go
1:13.6	and subscribe to the things that made England. Because I can see this show becoming a real
1:18.2	passion and love of mine because, yes, I'm a dyed in the wall lefty, but in no way, shape or form
1:26.0	am I some kind of nationalist that believes that everything that comes
1:30.3	out of England is superior to anywhere else? People of all skin colours, all political hues,
1:36.6	we should be able to celebrate the culture of the country that we're born into, and this is what
1:44.0	this series means to me so take a listen
1:46.7	and if you enjoy it why don't you subscribe to the things that made england it was the best of time
1:53.7	it was the work she wants the people's princess it'll fight on the beaches away man these are the things
1:59.9	that made england these are the things that made england but have a fight on the beaches Oh man These are the things that made England Fight on the landing ground
2:02.1	These are the things that made England
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