R E A L B R I T I S H C U LT U R E

TRADITIONAL BRITISH CULTURE

TRADITIONAL BRITISH IMAGE 1- QUEEN VICTORIA

•  Queen victoria is the most powerful woman in Great Britain and mainly she is part of the royal family. Being part of the royal family is very well respected, I say this because thousands of people come to members of the royal family for guidance.

TRADITIONAL BRITISH IMAGE 2 – FISH AND CHIPS

•  Fish and chips is a national British traditional meal that people currently live out of the UK will stereotype the British to often eating this particular meal. Countries are preparing to celebrate the 150th birthday of Britain's most famous fast food.

TRADITIONAL BRITISH IMAGE 3 - BUCKINGHAM PALACE

•  Buckingham Palace is the official London residence and principal workplace of the British monarch. This particular place has been focused on British people at times of national rejoicing and crisis.

TRADITIONAL BRITISH IMAGE 4 – DOUBLE DECKER BUS

•  Double decker buses originally came from the great British. A double decker bus is often used for touring rather than mass transit.

REAL BRITISH CULTURE IMAGE 1 - GANGS

•  The British culture today has now been defined of having gangs nearly on every estate in great Britain. Gangs have been making knife crime a major issue, which is really out of control for some years now.

REAL BRITISH CULTURE IMAGE 2- RIOTS

•  Riots have been predicted to be carrying on in great Britain over the years to come as in 2011 there was one of Britain's most intensive riots, which has ever occurred.

REAL BRITISH CULTURE IMAGE 3- TRANSPORT

•  The transport prices are rising every year due to inflation. The transport in great Britain can be a major issue as Britain rely on the transport for the daily life styles, such as going work, parents taking their children to school. Overall the transport has a huge role on Britain.

REAL BRITISH CULTURE IMAGE 4 -DRUGS

•  Drugs are a big issue in great Britain as the crime on illegal drugs have been increasing quite high over the past years.

ADAM DEACON VIEW ON BRITISH CULTURE

Adam Deacon is a actor, rapper and writer. He was best known for the lead role in English film kidulthood. Since the time the film got aired he has been starred in a wide variety of films, which has made a big successful impact to his career.

QUEENS VIEW OF THE BRITISH CULTURE

The Queen is know for the queen of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is the only country that has a queen. Her presence is well known in the Royal family as she is part of it.

DAVID CAMERON VIEW OF BRITISH CULTURE

•  David Cameron is the prime minister of the United Kingdom. He successfully won the 2010 general election on the 6th May 2010. He is also part of the member of the parliaments. He best known in Britain for being the youngest Prime minister.

ALAN SUGAR VIEW ON BRITISH CULTURE

Alan Sugar is a British business men. He started electronic goods at a very young age, which he did really good as he was a successful sole trader. This small independent business then expanded as he invested a lot into well known companies, now he is a millionaire. He also has a famous British TV show called the Young Apprentice.

GRITTY BRITISH REALISM

Depending on the environment your living in Britain you can be surrounded by good or the bad. Most estate streets in Britain often have gang crime close to the area and young teenagers all in one group causing mayhem to their local area. Great Britain today has increase in gang, knife crime a lot and police are finding hard to reduce this as the younger generation are more out of control then 100 of years ago. Maybe this is because the young Society may think the gang life is a cool popular thing to be associated in.

COMPARING TWO FILMS

•  Comparing Two British Films •  Bend it like Beckham is set in Great Britain, which fits in the gritty British realism

category. I know this as the surroundings of the film is streets with houses and parks, which local residents come together and play various activities such as football. The film has numerous cultures being starred by actors as jess (the main character) is from a Punjab Sikhs family in the plot with most of her family members also being included. Then there is also Jules (the daughter of an English couple with her friends from lots of different backgrounds from her football team. The main priorities of the Punjab Sikhs families in this British film is to ensure that when the daughters reach a certain age they will be required to get married as soon as possible as this is their sort of trend that all Punjab Sikh’s seem to follow. Throughout the film most scenes are in tower blocks as this shows how the Britain really is.

•  28 days later also set in Great Britain, which is also a British film as you can tell where the background is set. This consists of tower blocks, streets and tourist attractions as we can clearly see one of the scenes filmed right besides Big Ben. There are all cultures in the film as blacks, white and Asians. However this British film is not a realistic as the plot of the film consist of wild crazy people attacking other humans due to a virus that has been spreading.

EXAMPLES OF GRITTY BRITISH REALISM

•  This is England •  Kildulthood •  Slumdog Millionaire •  Four Lions •  28 Weeks later