
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
For ''ethnic minorities'' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and ''western'' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of ''South Asians'' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, ''sacred soaps'' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and ...
For ''ethnic minorities'' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and ''western'' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of ''South Asians'' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, ''sacred soaps'' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and ...