The British values are...
Democracy
Individual liberty
Rule of the law
And mutual respect for each other.
Mutual respect for other beliefs and religions.
It's just a value for everybody who lives in the UK.
They are then specific to us. Though doesn't necessarily mean that
they only resonate with those of the British Isles.
I think it's something all British (people) should be proud of, to have these lovely values.
Democracy is where, as a human being, you have the liberty to voice an opinion of,
and be able to then vote for, something that is of your liking or choosing.
Democracy is when you go and vote for the person that you like either for the
Parliament or the council. Even if you are a student you can vote for your student group.
So, in Britain, we can vote in the general election for the Prime Minister. We can vote for MPs.
Local MPs: we can vote for them and, when they win, they can do everything for us.
MPs are the representative of the people or their area.
I had to get a local councillor involved in a centre that I wanted to run
and, in order to get that, we had to get the planning permission, and for that I had
to speak to my local councillor, who was just brilliant.
Certain MPs, if they have something positive to say
or if they're trying to make a difference, then I will
support them. I will go to rallies if I feel that it reflects my own opinions or
if they're standing up for something that I believe in, I will try my best to participate in those.
They talk to the people, and then they go to Parliament
to tell what the people need or what they want.
This is probably the one thing that this country stands out for:
the democracy and people living by that democracy.
Individual liberty is me standing there in front of you.
Individual liberty is when you can express yourself without fears.
For an individual to be who they are, the way they want to be and
to be accepted and respected in the society that we're living in.
We have a lot of freedom that, possibly, some others
don't necessarily have, and maybe that's taken for granted.
Everyone has his own freedom to choose his own life. Like
to work, to study...I mean...talking on the street, to eat whenever he wants. As long
as it's not affecting others in a bad way.
We can choose our partners no matter who they are.
I had that choice to find my own partner, and I'm really grateful for that
because I think sometimes people don't have that choice in life.
We have the freedom to do whatever we want. To travel around.
There are certain things which, even being in Britain, with freedom of everything
they still know that there are rules we have to abide by, which we cannot cross.
Law is the written guidelines, the legislation that
have been put there for people to abide by.
The law tells us what we can do or what we're not supposed to do.
I think it's to bring discipline, some order in the country really so it wouldn't affect others.
A law is something that is in place to protect one or many people.
To talk about the things that I'm doing currently with the studies
that I'm doing, we go on about legislation in terms of protecting children.
Health and safety, some policies in the school.
You're not allowed to steal anything, and you've got to respect each other as well, and
you're not supposed to steal from someone else on their property.
If I'm driving a car, if I don't follow the speed limits
or if I don't look at the signs, I will have broken the law and may face court.
The laws are there, the equality laws, for the protection of the children.
I think it gives them a better chance to be positive human beings in this society.
Faith is the religion, or maybe the non-religion, that you believe.
Faith means belief. So if you believe in Islam, Christianity or Judaism, Buddhism
There's a lot of different faiths.
Faith is something which is within your heart.
It doesn't have to be a religion that you're abiding by. People can be of
any faith, but we just need to understand it and respect it. That this is what
they're choosing to be, and this is their way of life.
In Britain, there are a lot of different faiths,
and we have to be tolerant of the different ideologies to
respect each other, and we have to show mutual respect as well.
I met a lot of friends with different religions. I respect them; they respect me.
Maybe some of them don't have a religion at all. We live in one
society. We all live together; we help each other.
Mutual tolerance means that everybody respects each other. So if I
respect others, they should respect my religion or non-religion.
When you have kids of your own, you're teaching your kids something. I'm always
telling my kids, "Don't judge a book by its cover. Respect who you are, respect
the person next to you, everyone." Because, at the end of the day, we're all one.
When I first came here, I was nervous because I'd been away from work, studying
for about 12 years, and then I thought, "I need to go back at some point. Let's
start here, and let's see how it is." I came here and my tutor was lovely, and
then it came to my prayer time. I thought, "Okay, do I ask my tutor if I can pray?
What should I do?" And then I walked down the corridor, and there was a multi-faith room.
And you know that peace that you feel inside, thinking, "I didn't have to...
...face that as a challenge" because it's part of tolerant society.