Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and the Afro-Caribbean people now add to different ethnic minorities in Britain. Most of them live in the capital city and metropolitan counties. Ethnic groups in Britain are mainly distinguished from the rest of the population by the differences in race, language, culture and, not necessarily, by their religious and political beliefs.

The interesting fact is that predominant in the ethnic population are " children and young adults aged under 25 " ( " Labour Force Survey ", 1986-1988 ). This situation surely will have had its results in near future, for the new born children of immigrants will have had the British citizenship. Despite the citizenship, they will have been still regarded as immigrants, and if not, they will be still different from the original white Britons because of the colour of their skin. Hence, from this aspect British society is not homogeneous because in present times there live many ethnic groups. Since the different minorities do not support the condition of similarity, the society in Britain is heterogeneous.

Age is another feature according to which a society can be divided. Vertical distribution of the population helps to distinguish among the yuong, the middle-aged and the old people, basically. In modern Britain, young people have developed a wide variety of attitudes towards music, literature, films, various tastes in dress, hairstyles and general trends in public street life.

Above all, it must be remembered that " this is a new phenomenon. Young people were not always treated as a problem or a special category. There have not always been well-marked characteristics of appearance or tastes in music, films or books special to the young, there has not always, in other words, been a distinctive youth culture " ( Contemporary British Society, p. 423 ). This culture can be also called a " social construction " because it is not biologically determined by age.

There are three main distinctive features of a youth culture by which it is significantly different from adult groups. According to Contemporary British Society, the authors distinguish leisure interests, peer groups and style ( p. 424 ) which are characteristic for any youth culture. For this fact has provedthat there is a variety of well-marked youth cultures we can say that British society is also heterogeneous by age.

When looking at the United Kingdom today, we should also take into consideration another distinctive feature of a society, and that is class.