Prejudice In The British Film: Racism In England
Racism in England
Racism has existed throughout human history, ever since the western world got in contact with people of darker skin-color in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Everything from trade slavery, national regimes and ideologies through the years have played a role in the creation and substantiation of racism. Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another. Racism is treating other people badly or hate on them just because of their characteristics such as skin colour, culture, religion, place of birth, or language.
From the 1960’s racism were a major issue in England and the racist views were widespread. This lasted for almost 20-30 years before it finally settled down. In the British movie “This is …show more content…
The group had a black member in it as well. These skinheads was just a part of a subculture, originated among working class youths in England in the 60’s. After some time an earlier member of the gang, Combo who has been in prison gets out after a three years sentence. He returns to the group and expresses some harsh opinions about immigrants in England. He tells them about English nationalism and says that the immigrants are the reason why England has a miserable economy and so big social differences. Some other arguments Combo had against immigrants were that benefits from the government that was meant for British people were given to foreigners. They were the ones that got the bigger and nicer living spaces while the British people had to do with what the little they already had. Immigrants are cheap labour and this meant that the British people also had to work cheap to be able to get a job. The immigrants steals the jobs away from the British people. England was at risk and they had to do something. Combo orders them to stand up and fight against these “filthy bloodsuckers”. He enforces his beliefs upon the group members and this divides the group into two; the ones who does not want anything to do with these views and the ones who agreed with
Racism has existed throughout human history, ever since the western world got in contact with people of darker skin-color in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Everything from trade slavery, national regimes and ideologies through the years have played a role in the creation and substantiation of racism. Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another. Racism is treating other people badly or hate on them just because of their characteristics such as skin colour, culture, religion, place of birth, or language.
From the 1960’s racism were a major issue in England and the racist views were widespread. This lasted for almost 20-30 years before it finally settled down. In the British movie “This is …show more content…
The group had a black member in it as well. These skinheads was just a part of a subculture, originated among working class youths in England in the 60’s. After some time an earlier member of the gang, Combo who has been in prison gets out after a three years sentence. He returns to the group and expresses some harsh opinions about immigrants in England. He tells them about English nationalism and says that the immigrants are the reason why England has a miserable economy and so big social differences. Some other arguments Combo had against immigrants were that benefits from the government that was meant for British people were given to foreigners. They were the ones that got the bigger and nicer living spaces while the British people had to do with what the little they already had. Immigrants are cheap labour and this meant that the British people also had to work cheap to be able to get a job. The immigrants steals the jobs away from the British people. England was at risk and they had to do something. Combo orders them to stand up and fight against these “filthy bloodsuckers”. He enforces his beliefs upon the group members and this divides the group into two; the ones who does not want anything to do with these views and the ones who agreed with