http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Integration, minorities and the rhetoric of civilization : the case of British Pakistani Muslims in the UK and Malay Muslims in Singapore http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:18241 This article discusses, through a comparative approach, the experience of young Muslims in Singapore and the UK as far as integration is concerned. The paper suggests that one of the main issues faced by young Muslims, in both countries, is how they are represented and understood. Indeed, British South Asian Muslims as well as Malay Muslim Singaporeans are still living in a dynamic of postcolonialism. The heritage of British colonialism still, although latently, works through the creation of categories and classifications of how identity should be defined. In both the cases of British South Asian Muslims and Singaporean Malay Muslims, there is often an unspoken request for the imagined ethnic minority to mimic the ‘achiever’ majority. It is in this dynamic that we can recognize what I have called a ‘rhetoric of civilization’. 2012-03-22T08:56:53.501Z ]]> Student diversity and concepts of quality teaching : does ethnicity matter? http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:12619 This paper is part of a wider research project to explore how distinctions in hegemonic constructs (respect, power and authority) contribute to students’ perceptions of quality in business schools. The data is derived from a survey administered to first year accounting students in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The research question is: does the ethnicity of students affect the qualities they respect in their teachers? This study includes analysis of how to determine ethnicity as an independent variable, and finds that the survey responses suggest ethnicity impacts in unexpected ways on the different qualities they respect in their teachers. 2011-05-25T22:08:46.942Z ]]>