spot checks page 112

a) What percentage of the UK population is of New Commonwealth heritage? 
The New Commonwealth make up more than ten per cent of Britain's population. London has the largest concentration with more that thirty per cent of its population of the New Commonwealth. 

b) Why is the US referred to as a "Nation of Nations"?
The US is referred to as a "Nation of Nations" because of the massive immigration that has created a patchwork quilt of nationalities spread across the continent.

c) What is the difference between a community and an association?
 In a community people are as a large family or tribe, held together by blood, language, territory, history and common values. You only truly  belong if you are born here. In an association they serve the interest of its members and held together by a common set of rules and laws. All are equal in an association, it is citizenship, not birth, that determines who belong unlike the community, where you only belong if you are born there.

d) Why do some belive that multiculturism has gone too far?
Some belive that it threatens central values and characteristics of the nation. They call for cultural minorities to assimilate as quickly as possible, by which they mean take on the same traditions, language and values they belive are held by the majority.


e) Why do some belive that multiculturism has not gone far enough?
Others belive that minority cultures are under pressure to conform from an established majority which does not recognize them as equals. They do not think it is necessary for ethnic minorities to give up their cultural identity in order to belong to the nation, each cultural group has a right to its own individual existence.