Questionnaire Analysis

I conducted a questionnaire for research purposes on the public's view on ethnicity. The questionnaire was given to twenty people who completed it to their own merit. All of the participants resulted in being 'White British' and within the age group of '16-24'.


This pie chart describes peoples views on what ethnicity actually is. The majority of people believe that ethnicity is your origin being the 50%, while 20% believe that it is race. Also a further 20% believed that it is a mixture of both. So what is it? Ethnicity relates to a persons cultural identity and to be more precise, the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. 

I also asked how you would define 'Standard English'. The majority of the participants answered with the 'Queens English', alongside with a few people's ideas of standard english for example 'Cockney'. This shows that due to the place that we live in, which is the border of London, presents different views. Standard English is actually defined as received pronunciation and the language used by the majority of people using grammar and syntax correctly. 

The next question asked if they believed that Standard English has changed over the years. All of them answered yes and with a majority of them saying yes while going onto say how other cultures have changed and shaped the way that we speak now, that therefore linked onto the next questions where they were asked if they thought the english language has been affected by other cultures.
All of the above answered yes and with references to 'Black English' were made and also to asians to. This question clearly suggests that these 'White British' people believe that other races have changed their language today.



This shows that the majority of the participants believe that other cultures do actually have a positive effect on the english language despite there being a known and self-proclaimed change.

Next I asked if there was a culture that has had a great impact on the English Language and if yes, what would the example be. This is how the participants answered the question;



This Bar Chart shows that majority of people, which are 'White British', again, lean to the Black race as their main influence on impact to the English Language.