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Roger White (2016) assumes that religion is a potential marker of cultural similarity between
societies. Two societies that share a common religion or that 11 the same dominant religion are likely
more culturally similar than are two societies that stick to different religious beliefs. Similar to language, which
acts as a representation of culture and a means 12 culture can be transmitted, to the extent that religious
views 13 or influence broader attitudes, norms, expectations, and mores, it can be viewed as a 14 that
allows culture to be communicated across people and time periods. 15 , the researcher employs two measures
off religious distance between parent and host countries as a potential proxy variable for cultural
differences. The results obtained from his study support his assumptions.
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In April 1968, Britain was debating the Race Relations Act, which made it illegal to deny a person
employment, housing or public services based on race or national origin. The law was intended to protect
immigrants from Commonwealth nations, especially former colonies in the Caribbean, India, and Pakistan.
The first of these immigrants, 492 Jamaicans, had arrived 20 years earlier. Hundreds of thousands followed.
"The immigrants were called over," says Sathnam Sanghera, an author whose Sikh parents emigrated from
India during that time. "There was a labor shortage. There weren't enough people to run the factories after the
war." The immigrants were granted British citizenship and helped rebuild Britain after World War II. But they
faced racism. Landlords wouldn't rent to them. Some employers turned them away. The Race Relations Act
was intended to protect immigrants.
The tension was especially obvious in Wolverhampton, one of the first cities in Britain to experience mass
immigration. Enoch Powell, who represented Wolverhampton in Parliament, feared a race war coming
because of mass immigration. On April 20, 1968, he took the stage at a Conservative Party event at the
Midlands Hotel in Birmingham and gave an incendiary speech that would come to define him — and divide
his country. In the speech, Powell warned, "that tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with