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Originally Posted by Navo
In my four years in the UK till date, I've often gotten the impression that religion is a 'culture substitute' for british-bangladeshi youth, where alienation from both their native culture and 'western' culture has led them to cling to another set of cultural values i.e. Islamic values.
Someone who embodies this 'caught between two cultures' identity is Lowkey, the Anglo-Iraqi hip hop artist. He describes himself as being an 'Englishmen amongst Arabs and an Arab amongst Englishmen'. I suppose that's the case between many of our UK Bangladeshi brethren, particularly of my generation.
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Excellent observations. I should add to it that much of the disaffected youth came from families where the parents came to Britain as economic migrants, what the immigration criteria class as 'unskilled labour migrants'. It is of singular importance that the parents would often be illiterate.