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THE NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL: UNITING PEOPLE
Every August, the streets of the London district of Notting Hill vibrate with colour and music, as West Indians come together with other ethnic groups to celebrate the Notting Hill Carnival, the largest street festival in Europe.
The story of the carnival begins after the Second World War when the United Kingdom needed workers and invited immigration from its former colonies. West Indians from the Caribbean arrived in hundreds and joined working-class Britons, Irish and Southern Europeans living in poverty and poor conditions in North Kensington. Although these immigrants had been ‘invited’ to Britain, they were not always well-received. Some Britons, influenced by the fascist ‘Keep Britain White’ campaign, accused them of taking their jobs, their homes and their women. The new immigrants also encountered colour bars in employment and housing and were soon to meet with aggression too.
In 1958, white youths attacked the homes of West Indian residents in what was known as the Notting Hill Race Riots. The escalation of racial tension mobilised anti-racist groups and, in this mobilisation, the idea of holding a carnival to build unity among people was born and developed by different people of different races.
The first Caribbean Carnival took place on 30th January, 1959, and was held indoors. However, the Notting Hill Carnival as we know it today grew from the street festival of 1966, which was a great success thanks to the participation of Russell Henderson, a popular Trinidadian musician and steel-pan player. When Henderson and his group began playing, West Indians rushed into the streets and followed them in procession. Since then, music and celebrations in the street have become the ‘trademark’ of the carnival, as occurs in the Caribbean carnivals originally held to celebrate the abolition of slavery.
Answer the following questions:
Where and when is the Notting Hill Carnival held?
What problem did the UK have after the Second World War?
What did it do to try to solve this problem?
Where do West Indians come from?
5. How did the ‘Keep Britain White’ campaign influence some Britons? 6. Which other group of immigrants was also strongly discriminated against? 7. Why did some people think a carnival would be a good idea? 8. What was one of the reasons the 1966 street festival was so successful? 9. When did Caribbean people first hold their own carnivals? 10. What problems do immigrants to Europe encounter today?