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I find it easiest to look forward by looking back to the "Great Labor Migration" of 1948-55, seen at the time as a matter of bla

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问题       I find it easiest to look forward by looking back to the "Great Labor Migration" of 1948-55, seen at the time as a matter of black guests coming to a white host. It’s a quasi-imperial perception that has shifted since the 1970s, but the social problems and deficiencies it engendered dog us still①.
     It’s highly questionable whether Britain is an open society even now. Against the upward trend in the 1980s of ethnic minorities breaking into the professions and the media must be set objective evidence of a very racist society. Since the Stephen Lawrence affair the government has at least been talking about the existence of racism, but it’s always the case that racism diminished in times of prosperity. When the economic going gets tough, people want someone to take their feelings out on.
     The social landscape seems to me at a surreal crossroads. Britain fosters images of itself as homogenous, to be white is no longer the central defining feature, but there remain various kinds of "Britishness". So I can envisage the future in two very different ways.
     The first is broadly the way Britain is at the moment: a mosaic of communities: Bangladeshi, Afro-Caribbean, Chinese or Jewish holding fast to a strong social identity, but lumbered also with a whole raft of benefits and disadvantages, most of them defined in economic terms. It’s possible that will still be the pat tern in 50 years time, but not very likely. Instead, I expected the old duality of a "host community" and "immigrants" whose bad luck it is to be excluded and disadvantaged to have vanished. Some ethnic communities may make a point of survival, but only those who are most proud of their cultural roots.
     The alternative is a pick-and-mix social landscape. At the moment ethnic minorities are moving in different directions at different rates, with personal and social engagement across ethnic boundaries increasing all the time. One crude indicator is the level of mix-race marriage: one in five Bangladeshi and Pakistani men born in Britain now has a white with, and one in five babies born in Britain has one Afro-Caribbean and one white parent.
      This implies a Britain in which people will construct multiple identities defined by all sorts of factors: class, ethnicity, gender, religion, profession, culture and economic position. It won’t be clear-cut. Not all ethnic, minorities, or members of an ethnic minority, will be moving in the same direction of identifying the same issues at the heart of their identities. It’s about deciding who you are, but also about how other people define you.
     That’s what will be at the heart of the next 50 years: enduring communities linked by blood through time versus flexible, constantly shifting identities. Identity won’t be about where you have come from; it will be a set of values you can take anywhere that is compatible with full participation in whichever society you live in②.
What is the main subject of the passage?
选项 A、Racial discrimination in Britain.
B、How to define yourself.
C、Ethnic Identity in Britain.
D、Social problems Britain was trapped.
答案C
解析 主旨题。选项A 种族歧视和种族问题不是文章重心，只在第二段第二、三句话提，是引发论说的切入点；选项B 太大了，虽然文章在第七、八段谈论到了身份和认同问题，但是B 是如何定位自己，也就是如何定义自己的身份和认同，偏离了主题；而选项D 是困扰英国的问题，过于宽泛概括性太强。C 为正确答案，文章一直在讨论民族性问题：第一段提到白人主人和黑人劳工移民以及遗留问题，第二段种族，第三段社会同一性，第四、六段第一句关于少数民族如何定位和认同的问题指出了两个发展方向，最后一段展望了未来五十年的发展图景。
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