'What is Black British culture', Radio 1Xtra

Black British culture:

When listening to the Radio 1Xtra programme, ‘What is Black British culture?’, I learnt a variety of interesting facts in which I felt made me understand the Black British culture. I looked at a variety of different issues within the Black British culture such as, foods, fashion and music.

Listening to the radio station showed the idea of the black British culture bringing over to UK a variety of new elements of their culture such as; food, music and fashion, bringing over a new heritage. Some of the foods are now known as a typical everyday life to the UK, allowing the different cultures to come together and for people to have a new variety of these different cultures. The different foods in which have been brought into the British culture by the different cultures such as the Jamaican culture allowed the culture to adapt and change in a variety of ways. Music is also seen as another matter in which Black culture has brung to British culture, such as grime.

The different styles of fashion have also seemed to combine throughout different cultures including the black culture. The idea of baggy jeans and tight jeans being the new fashion seems to show the idea of fashion crossing all the races as there is a variety of different cultural fashion. I also learnt by the radio cast of how black styles and tradition looks were also known to start being used by people who were known as a famous, traditionally British person such as David Beckham having small twists at the front of his hair, having contemporary cultures, the idea of new cultures coming into traditional cultures to create a variety of fashion styles and looks.

The language used within the Black British culture these days shows how the Jamaican language has now been involved within the British culture, such as new sayings and phrases which seem to be more said in the culture. Slang has also increased within the culture, as more youths today are known to be using it during everyday life. " At first when people used to say 'you think you're black' I used to argue the case back but now I just laugh." This quote shows that things have changed for youths today as people have got used to this way of life.

Overall, I feel that Black British culture has allowed different cultures come together and create a new type of lifestyle for many people to experience, allowing things to be less boring and have more variety of what is able to be done within a culture. I feel over that the Black British culture is a positive for many as it allows such a wide new variety of things within the British culture, mixing new things together to create a new type culture and community.