Second Generasians

I denne study guide kan du få hjælp til at analysere teksten "Second Generasians" af Sarfraz Manzoor, som findes i antologien What's Up, Britain? (s. 135-137). Udover analysehjælp kan du få et summary af teksten, samt inspiration til diskussion og perspektivering.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “Second Generasians” (2004)
Forfatter: Sarfraz Manzoor
Genre: Leder

Sarfraz Manzoor (f. 1971) er en britisk journalist, filminstruktør og kulturkommentator. Han kom til Storbritannien som 3-årig, da hans familie indvandrede fra Pakistan.

Manzoors leder handler om andengenerationsindvandrere i Storbritannien med asiatisk oprindelse. Den blev første gang udgivet i tidsskriftet Spotlight.

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Ethos

The writer appeals to ethos by refering to his own experience as a second-generation immigrant and by indirectly relying on his credibility as a journalist.

Manzoor often speaks about himself but uses his personal story to illustrate more general facts about his generation. He suggests that many first and second-generation working-class British Asians had the same experiences as he and his family had: “Like most Asians at the time, our family was working-class.”(p.136, ll. 56-57); “We second-generation children of immigrants did not feel confident that we were wholly British, nor did we feel we were truly Pakistanis.” (p.137, ll. 19-22).

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