(英国民族和语言.ppt

·　Ethnic diversity  Ethnic diversity Ethnic Composition UK’s contemporary population is predominantly of English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish stock. Additionally, the British population is composed of immigrant minoritities who have been in Britain over the centuries and have sometimes intermarried with other enthnic groups. Invasion early Settlers 　　the first known settlers of Britian were the Iberians in the old Stone Age.then, it was the Beaker Folk in the Bronze Age. about 2000BC the Beaker Folk arrived from the areas now know as Holland and Rhineland. about 700 BC The Celts began to arrive Britain in three main waves The first wave were the Gaels-came about 600BC. The second wave were the Brythons-came about 400BC. The third wave were the Belgae-came about 150BC. During the 8th and 9th centuries, a substantial number of Scandinavians (Vikings) , raided and settled in Britain and Ireland ,but were eventually subdued and integrated by the Anglo-Saxon agricultural and Christian culture. In 1066, French Normans conquered England ,adding yet another ethnic component. Immigrants since the Norman Conquest: many fits and waves of immigration to Britian from overseas. Following the Jewish moneylenders that entered England with the Normans, Lombard bankers came from Italy. Immigrants Around 1330, Dutch and Flemish weavers arrived, after that, Gypsies, enslaved blacks and a further wave of Jews. In the 16th and 17th centuries, a large number of refugees from Europe, such as Dutch Protestants and French Huguenots. During the two hundred years after 1700, there was no more large immigration into Britain During the 19th century, with industrialisation going on in Britian, large migratory movements took place at home where people flocked from countryside to urban centres, from Wales, Scotland and Ireland to England. During the 1930s and’40s, as a result of the Great Depression and World War II, refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe such as Jews