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Rotheram And Phinney (1987) Further Identify Some Lack Of Clarity In ...

Rotheram and Phinney (1987) further identify some lack of clarity in boundaries between ethnic groups or how the way group members label themselves may be different from the way others label them. Obgu (1981) reports a substantial proportion of children who label themselves in ways different from their official classifications in school. In their relatively recent review on racial or ethnic peer relationships, Foster, Martinez and Kulberg (1996) further voice the lack of consistency with which the terms ‘ethnicity', ‘culture' and ‘race' have been applied and the recognition that all of these terms are used interchangeably to describe varying groups of people. For the broad term ‘culture' Foster et al. (1996) quote Triandis and associates' definition wherein an identified group of people share a common physical (e.g. building, tools and artifacts) and subjective environment (Triadis, Lambert, Berry, Lonner, Heron, Brislin and Draguns, 1980). While Foster et al. (1996) notice how this categorization often involves national or regional origin because research on culture and its transmission has concentrated on the ‘subjective' aspects of culture (like social norms, familial roles, shared values and beliefs), other ‘subjective' aspects (like gender and religion) will suffice as well within this definition. Meanwhile, ‘ethnicity' has been appropriated to define ‘a group of people who share any or all of common cultural background, national origins, languages, values and practices thus, synonymous with culture (e.g. Betancourt and Lopez, 1993; Ocampo, Bernal and Knight, 1993).
Taking into account the brief review of what is ethnicity, national identity and race it can be concluded that tea making and tea drinking as core parts of British national identity are here to stay. Nevertheless, the form and timing and the linguistic expressions reflecting tea may change and develop as our society and national identity develops. Finally, considering that modern British society has increased by absorbing a large number of foreigners primarily from Europe and especially Polland that means our national identity is further developing and increasing which can be seen by the ways foreigners drink or not tea and are willing or not to speak English and not wear veils. On the whole tea drinking statistics is only one of the ways of identifying how British we remain despite the inclusion of a large number of foreigners who say they are willing to become British!
References
Aslet, C. (1997) Anyone for England? A Search for British Identity. London: Little Brown.
Betancourt, H. and Lopez, S. R. (1993) The Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race in American Psychology. American Psychologist, 48, 629-637.
British Journal of Photography. No 7356 (2001) pg.7.
Carroll L. 1977, Alice in Wonderland, Purnell: Maidenhead.
Ceramic Review, no 177 (1999) pg. 34-5. The Worlds Service.
Cooper, C. & Press, M.

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