South Downs National Park

TMA03, Using the data in the table provided, what can you say about the ethnicity of the population in the nation parks of England and Wales?

The 2011 Census of National Parks in England and Wales has categorised all of the ethnic groups, these are White, Mixed/multiple ethnic groups; Asian/Asian British; Black/African/Caribbean/Black British; and, other ethnic group, and it also illustrates where groups are spread out and are situated in different areas. It provides data where the areas are less/more ethnically diverse and more/less densely populated. From the data provided we see that both tables confirm quantitative data of the ethnic population of national parks in England and Wales (Open University, 2011). It is notable that the
The South Downs National park is the most diverse out of all 13 parks. However, we see that the total number of persons in each category vary from one extreme to the other; in the Northumberland National Park it has a lower percentage of 0.5% than those in the South Downs National Park at a total of 28% this therefore means that South Downs is X56 larger than Northumberland, when comparing both the national parks here we notice that the population for Asian Bangladeshi at South Downs National Parks is 52 persons however there are 0 persons in Northumberland National Parks this pattern continues throughout the parks as Northumberland is least ethnically diverse as it shows zero persons in 8 out of 18 categories. The Broads Authority has a relatively low percentage and is less diverse but it is X3 larger in
When we look at how and what people define themselves as we take a look and explore the many aspects that create our individual identity and how people are excluded by the different aspects. People’s identity is given by their similarities and differences, it is important that we look at the elements of people’s identity these elements can be based upon their characteristics of race, gender, age, ethnicity, class and place. Identities can be given ‘out of place’ (Stephanie Taylor, 2009, p.175) Jonathon Raban observes a street in New York and with a large number of homeless people living on the street Jonathan expresses how he noticed the negative ways in which other people described them and how they had been giving the identity which had ‘marked’ them as: long-term mental patients discharged from hospitals... crack addicts, thieves, alcoholics, hobos the temporarily jobless, the alimony defaulters, rent-hike victims. (Raban, cited in Making Social Lives, 2009, p. 175-176) Raban set out to perform an experiment of two different identities, the first to walk and look ahead, not focusing on the street people but walking like most of the people on the pathway. The second where he acted like a street person by sitting himself in a vacant fire hydrant, he then watched the crowd pass by whilst settled into an armchair position like the Street People did. Both of these gave Raban