Rafael Boileau 1B
Expression écrite Brexit
I learnt a lot of things about the divisions in the UK, in the GB and more precisely in England
. First of all, there are different cultures in those countries, there are stereotypes about
Scotland or Ireland for example. We have seen a map in class and this map shows all of
stereotypes , I learnt that the stereotypes in Scotland were the kilt, whisky, celtic music or the
Loch Ness Monster so I guess those stereotypes are one of the causes of those divisions.
Those countries are really divided between themselves because some are for Brexit and
some are against Brexit, for example, Scotland was against Brexit and now the country
wants to leave the United Kingdom. In England, people that live in London feel Londoners
and not British, so this is a division. There are social divisions, cultural divisions and
economic divisions because in the North of England people are very poor whereas in the
South people are more rich and they live easily. A lot of discriminations exist in UK: racism,
sexism, age, and accentism, there are dozens of accents in Britain and some of these
accents are rejected by the society, for example, a girl who lives in Yorkshire changed her
accent to enter in the society but she says that was the worst decision of her life because
she lost her identity and there is a problem in the society people may have changed his
accent to be accepted in the society, it’s a big discrimination and there are a lot of
discriminations like this one. To conclude this part I can say the British society is so divided.
The reasons why people voted for or against Brexit are very simple: immigration and
sovereignty, people wanted to go away Europe are against immigration and for sovereignty,
they are often racist and conservative and people wanted to stay in Europe are for the
immigration and against sovereignty, they wanted to be multicultural and live together. The
older persons are mainly for Brexit whereas the younger persons are against Brexit, for sure
there are certainly other reasons but it’s too long to explain this in a few lines. My opinion
about Brexit is simple, if I had voted, I would have voted against because I think Brexit is a
bad thing. First of all, the UK is outside the UK now and they have to fend for themselves
and in many situations they are in difficulties because they are alone, for example the
tourism is complicated because it is necessary to have a passport, for the teamsters it’s
more complicated to cross the border. We have seen this problem with the border between
the 2 Irelands. It’s a shame that the UK is isolating themselves, this creates more and more
divisions in those countries and that’s really bad.
