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  1. hi and welcome in this video i'm going to talk about britishness you might be watching this because you're preparing for the abitur in germany and you want
  2. to just brush up on your knowledge about british english about these connected topics let me show you what i'm going to talk about in this video in detail
  3. [Music] now to give you a little overview we'll talk about the question what is england
  4. what is the uk what is britain how are these words different talk about british identity in general what are some things you could should keep in mind and and
  5. how far can we say that britain is a multicultural society and how has brexit affected the uk what kind of debates were there what is
  6. the result what is the situation today also my last point will be the monarchy so in how far does the monarchy still affect live in the uk and how far is it
  7. still important let's go now first of all i love this map because it really shows you um what's what and it's very simple so
  8. we have a couple of things you can see there first of all great britain means all the big island and some of the small islands around it but not ireland so
  9. great britain technically does not include northern ireland for example but that is it's important to know the term uh british and great britain of course
  10. directly connected then ireland yes it's a country but this is only the republic of ireland this the south and the northern part is of course
  11. part of the united kingdom so it's not part of the state republic of ireland then we have the united kingdom which is of course great britain
  12. and northern ireland so as opposed to britain in a stricter sense or great britain northern ireland is part of the united kingdom so we should really know
  13. and keep these terms in mind when we're talking about this area if you want to talk about all of them together the word british ielts is sometimes used when
  14. talking about great britain and ireland which can make sense in some contexts let's move on directly to british identity and as you can see this term
  15. these terms english british united kingdom they're all sort of interrelated but it's of course important to know what's what and this
  16. affects british identity in a way britishness means a combination of the identities of the several different parts that make up britain and
  17. or the uk the first and most important thing i think to keep in mind and especially from a foreign perspective is that you
  18. shouldn't say british and english are synonyms they more or less mean the same because it can have a very different meaning but of course it's a closely
  19. related concept um many people argue that britishness in a
  20. way is more inclusive than the term englishness this is obvious if we talk about like scotland and wales clearly scotland and wales are not england so in
  21. this sense yes of course the term britishness is more accessible but the same goes for foreigners it's maybe difficult if you're a person from poland
  22. to say after um a couple of years living in england or even after a generation to say you're english but it's maybe easier or studies have found that it's easier
  23. for people to say well i'm british so in a way britishness is a more open inclusive concept than englishness or scottishness etc
  24. um and people have also noted our studies have found that in in cities or in english cities of course people identify rather
  25. as british rather than english and in the countryside it's the other way around so they would first say well yes i'm english for example
  26. but then i'm also british of course but first and foremost english in britain there is a big north-south divide so it's important to keep that in
  27. mind that even if we talk about all of britain it's not all the it's not a country that is completely similar there
  28. are big differences as there are of course in many countries and i think this is one map that really shows one different that here's the
  29. difference in income and you will find similar results on if you look for health if you look for age how long people
  30. live etc and you will almost get always get a very similar result that in london and in the southeast of the country people are richer they have
  31. better health care they often have better education and etc and that this area especially the north of england so not scotland but the north of england is
  32. uh yeah comparatively poorer than the rest of the countries i think if we keep all these things in
  33. mind we have the different well countries like scotland wales northern ireland england and we have
  34. these regional identities versus the city and we have in within england a big north south divide so that the north is
  35. poorer and the south is rich and many things are centered in the south east and then we have a lot a good starting point to talk about um british identity
  36. of course another point for britishness as i said before is the idea of how accessible is britishness for a foreigner and there are many ways to
  37. argue that um britain is very multicultural for a number of reasons of course there was the british empire and people from the
  38. colonies for several reasons in several different ways often emigrated to the uk and and now live there or their descendants live
  39. there and this has of course has a strong effect so that we can see that in the uk for example we have many more people
  40. from say india or pakistan or with roots from india and pakistan living there as opposed to let's say germany or poland or france where it's yet different again
  41. and then there was eu membership uh of course no longer but there for a long time there was the eu membership it was very easy for people
  42. from eu countries to move to the uk and this is why now there are a number of people or many people a high number of people from countries such as poland or
  43. romania etc or even spain so people who moved to the uk to have a better lifestyle or access to better jobs etc so these these
  44. are the two big sources of influx of migrants that are really uh i think important to keep in mind the empire and the the the results of the empire this
  45. so the commonwealth countries these countries that were part of the empire and the time of the eu membership these developments are the the the reason for
  46. that today the uk you could argue in a way it's one of the most diverse places that we have it's a very mixed society not of course everywhere
  47. not locally in every area but for example in london of course very very different nationalities that live there
  48. many people from different countries this um kind of the fact that britain is such a multicultural society people argue has
  49. caused a backlash so a backlash is of course like a reaction a negative reaction to something that has happened or something that people perceive and
  50. many people argue that brexit in a way could occur because people developed a more negative attitude towards immigration and in particular of course
  51. towards immigration from the eu as i said before people from countries such as uh poland spain romania etc um moving in and um yeah so in a way you could
  52. argue that the topic of britain as a multicultural society is directly linked to the idea of brexit or why brexit came about
  53. let's talk a bit more about brexit brexit has happened now there are still some arguments about how trade should be arranged etc but it has
  54. happened and the uk has left the european union and one of the goals that people who supported brexit had in mind to have a more global britain so britain
  55. that has connections with countries everywhere in the world using its um like the commonwealth countries for example as a starting point this was a
  56. big hope and let's take a quick look at what happened there was has always been an intense debate about
  57. brexit so in the years before the referendum there was strong debate and this it didn't really stop when the result came in and in a way you could
  58. say that the the argument got fiercer afterwards and by now it's sort of settling down but there's still many people who dislike
  59. brexit and there's still many people who are angry at remainers remain us the people who would have liked to remain in the eu
  60. um the loss of the uk as a eu member state is of course very important for the european union because it was such a big country it's one of
  61. the biggest countries or was one of the biggest countries in the eu it is a has a strong economy it's a strong military
  62. so this is of course a severe loss for the eu on the other hand of course for the britain no longer to be part of that
  63. bloc is also a loss of influence and and there has been much talk about trade and how this affects trade and there were
  64. many supply chain issues so where people couldn't order things or things didn't arrive in the country
  65. and these have been more severe in um in britain or in the uk many people argue than in other countries in the eu because brexit was an additional factor
  66. in top on top of the coronavirus that resulted in supply chain issues and this promise of trade deals with many countries being a really open
  67. country having global connections to many many countries hasn't really come true yet because the eu had a lot of trade deals with many countries and even
  68. just having the same trade deals will take a while and then having more and significantly more good trade deals than
  69. the european union already has um arguably that has not taken place and doesn't seem like it is going to um take place soon if at all we will see
  70. and trade is a particular problem for northern ireland you remember the map at the beginning of this video and northern ireland there's the sea border and there
  71. have been many discussions on how there should not be a border between northern and southern ireland and so trade is very difficult to arrange
  72. across this uh the strait of the sea and within ireland so there has have to be a lot of agreement and this makes difficult to agree with the eu on
  73. a deal this is why the trade is still a problem and some issues are still not resolved about brexit many people say the uk in a way is more isolated now
  74. because yes it can make decisions on its own but it can no longer influence the decision of this big block of countries of the eu that of course taken together
  75. has a lot of power and a lot of influence and now yes the uk is independent but maybe a bit more isolated than it used to be
  76. and there were many cartoons about brexit this is one that is i find very interesting so on the left we have a project fantasy so
  77. what people hoped brexit would be like you know showing the union jack the british flag and that the realities of course a lot of problems that have to be
  78. um resolved of course brett true brexiteers would argue this is not true and it's a it's a misrepresentation so of course this cartoon is
  79. a remainer position cartoon let's talk about another topic that is important if you want to understand the uk and this is the monarchy
  80. this is queen elizabeth of course who's on the throne at the moment and and one thing i think that really is important to know is that the monarchy is a really
  81. important part of the british political system so you couldn't simply say let's get rid of it because the monarchy plays some important roles like
  82. officially appointing the prime minister etc so the whole system is planned with the monarchy in mind unlike let's say the german system
  83. or the french system um the powers of the monarch are of course very limited so the queen doesn't decide on foreign policy or on the economy that on taxes
  84. she doesn't make big decisions it's more or less a ceremonial role that can be compared to the role that our bundes president has
  85. in germany and um the queen herself and the monarchy in general have a lot of public support so people are not against the
  86. monarchy at all on the whole in the uk there's a lot of support there are of course many arguments to have for and against the monarchy and
  87. these sometimes play a part in in texts or in discussions that you will have to do with in the context of the ib2 so i'll
  88. list some of these arguments here on the pro side as i said before queen is supported the monarchy can help in international
  89. politics sometimes they can have meetings especially on the commonwealth countries of course there are a lot of
  90. influence and we don't we shouldn't forget that the uk does not have really a written constitution as such so it's a system that is really based on tradition
  91. so simply getting rid of the monarchy would create a lot of problems and we would need a constitution for the uk first really
  92. to do that um on the common side on the contra side um of course the monarchy is based on the
  93. idea that somebody is born for their job or was chosen by god and these are not really ideas that we can we still support as a society today it's also a
  94. hereditary concept that nades is given uh passed on within a family this is also an idea that we today really dislike that you get something just
  95. because you're the child of your parents and uh yeah so this is not really something we support today
  96. also there are many personal scandals just to think of prince andrew um and things the person the family members members to wrong and which wouldn't be a
  97. problem if they weren't monarchs but they are and so in a way they represent the country even though they have never been elected and so these scandals are a
  98. problem also the monarchy is strongly connected of course to religion and
  99. this is in a way you could argue excludes people who do not believe in that religion who then cannot really completely identify with the monarchy
  100. maybe either and also many people say the monarchy is too expensive there are many arguments about whether the monarchy brings in
  101. more money by for example attracting tourists um or whether it costs too much in terms of taxes that's of course a hard issue to resolve exactly but it's
  102. one of the arguments that often goes around in this context that was my presentation on on britishness i hope i could help you a
  103. little bit if you're looking for more information on the german or abitur or on how to write certain kinds of texts or to do oral exams take a look around
  104. on my channel there is a lot of material on that i hope to see you again see you soon and goodbye [Music]

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