Brexit and the End of the British Empire

Pre-listening research questions:

What is Brexit?

How is it connected to the British Empire?

 

 

 

 

• The media makes people from the UK feel different than other countries in Europe about their place in the world. 

• The British education system does not inform British subjects of the true history of empire. 

•  Xenophobia has been used historically.

•  Social progress has been attained through the aftermath of disastrous events like war.

•  The history of empire is linked with the reasons why the UK voted to leave the European Union,
  

•  The conservative government used Brexit as a means to get support, relying on exploiting people's fear of foreigners and gaining votes from extremist, far-right parties.

• Demographic statistics show some ome surprising results, such as the relationship between obesity and voting for Brexit.

Further research questions:

Have people's attitudes to Brexit changed since the UK has lost all its low-paid workers?

 

Is this form of isolationism peculiar to the UK, or are all countries susceptible to it in the age of identity politics?