East Is East Play

East is East is a comedy written by ayub kahn-din, it’s set in Salford, Manchester, the play is set during the 1970s, however, it was written in 1996. The play addresses the on-going conflict around the country along with the conflict in the Khan family. He loosely based it off his own family when he was growing up and how his dad pushed the Pakistani culture onto his kids well he wasn’t always sticking to his own culture.
The types of conflicts that are shown in the play are inter cultural, interpersonal and personal. Inter cultural conflict is the conflict between the English culture and Pakistani culture, Ayub showed this within the family and Georges actions towards those of different cultures. Interpersonal conflict is between people, this is shown in the play between many different family members but all seems to stem from the cultural conflict they are dealing with within the family. The last type of conflict in the play is personal, this is the way a person deals with the struggles they face and how ayub shows character
The play addresses how the country was getting divided by racism and how the Khan family was dealing with cultural conflict, the surge in racism was caused by the politician Enoch Powells rivers of blood speech. In this speech, he blamed the blacks for taking jobs and ruining the country, the speech draws a lot of similarities to speeches given by dictators and contained a lot of hate speech. This caused a lot of hate towards families from other cultures and religions like the Khan family. Salford was a very poor area that didn’t have many