Demographic Change

• What cultural changes have happened around discrimination?

  Since 1960s -has been decline prejudice towards ethnic minorities

  1987 British attitudes survey found that 39% of people said they were racially prejudiced whereas by 2017 fallen to 26%

  2018 survey by Britain saw that 66% of the over 65s in ethnic minorities said level of racial prejudice today is lower than it was in 1968

  People are now more likely to see that discrimination is a criminal offence
• What is a reason for culture change?


  Due to changes in law

  • psychologists think if we are made to change our behaviour we tend to change our attitudes to fit it
  • if the law is changed to forbid discrimination people may abandon their prejudiced attitudes to bring them in line with how they are now required to behave
• How did people face discrimination during the 1950s - 1960s

  (Windrush Generation)


  Housing, employment and services

  1965 a survey found that 1.5% of whites would be willing to let a room to a coloured tenant

  BBC documentary found churches turning away black families to avoid upsetting white worshippers

  At the time it was legal to discriminate

  • led to exploitation by landlords - letting slum houses to immigrants - who could only get a low paid job
• What is direct and indirect discrimination?

  Direct - someone treats you less favourably

  Indirect - policy or law that applies to everyone but has a worse effect on some groups than others
• What is the Race relations act?

  What was it finally replaced with?

  Passed in 1965 - banned racial discrimination in public places

  In 1968 added discrimination in key areas of employment - housing and public services

  Replaced by the 1976 Race Relations Act - extended law covering both direct and indirect discrimination

  2010 replaced by equality act
• How have immigration levels and racism laws changed over the last 100yrs?


  1945 - fewer than 20,000 non-white immigrants in the UK

  1950s-1960s non white immigrants who came over from former British Colonies who came in search of economic opportunities, often filling jobs that Britain refused to take

  Uk’s demographic changed to a multi- ethnic one