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Answer ONE of the questions listed below.
1. To what extent do you believe that identity is a government construct? Give reasons for your answer.
2. ‘The cult of celebrity is nothing new; it is the rise of social media that has made all the difference.' Discuss this statement.
3. In 1993 David Gervais said of England, it is "too large and too various to be a fixed concept. It has changed so fast in our time that it is hard to be sure, at any given moment, which England is in question, its present or its past.
There may still be an England in which the English can meet but the only route to it is through our own personal and eccentric starting points of class, religion and regions, precisely things that divide us from a more general sense of our ‘Englishness'".
How accurate and relevant is this statement today?
4. Segregation, assimilation, integration - which comes closest to describing the attitude of successive British governments towards immigration in the past twenty-five years?
5. Choose one cultural genre or theme; and say how your choice has contributed to the development of the national identity of a country of your choice.