The People Flashcards
Princess of Wales
Diana, messy divorce, killed in ‘97
Homosexuality
not illegal to be gay only illegal to participate in homosexual acts, lesbianism was never recognized by the law (Queen V. never acknowledged it)
nuclear family
two adults + 1,8 children, is only around 36% of British families today
Sexism: Church of England:
did not permit women deacons until 1987
Sexism: institutional:
Politics, legal system, Church of England, there are very few females in Parliament
Equal Pay Act 1970 and
Sex Discrimination Act 1975, women still earn less than men
ladettes
young women who love binge drinking, exceed males in noise, violence, abuse
Case of Wells and Chapman
Two young girls murdered in 2002 by Ian Huntley
Bulger case in 1993
two year old boy murdered by eleven year old schoolboys
Newcastle accent
Geordie
Liverpool dialect
Scouse
Birmingham accent
Brummie
Cockney accent in London
Estuary English
Nomads
members of tribes that move from place to place
neolithic
new stone age, build Stonehenge, beginnings of agriculture, 4000 BC
Density
number of inhabitants per unit area
Merseyside
a metropolitan county in W-England
Racism
belief that one’s race is superior, right to rule based on race, English treated Celts as colonial subjects