Stereotypes: Prejudice During The Thatcher Years

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Prejudice during the Thatcher Years.

The movies “PRIDE” , “The Iron Lady” and “This is England” represent the British society during the Thatcher Years. There is a lot of prejudice and discrimination in all three movies, especially against gay people, women and black people. These three groups of people are widely discriminated and prejudiced, even today.
The first movie “PRIDE” focuses on a group of gays and lesbians that chooses to support the miners during the strike in 1984. Even though same-sex activity became legal in all of UK in 1982, people still consider the LGBT community is to be wrong. Therefore, the group encounter a lot of prejudice and discrimination, both from regular people and form miners, in the form of mean comments, vandalism and rejection. For example, someone throws a brick through the window of the
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The group has set their mind to the fact that black people are bad. The blame immigrants for the high unemployment and other economic and political problems during the time.
They also believe them to be bad people in general whose culture does not fit into the English society. The discrimination is their way of “taking back England” and is portrayed by many racist speeches, mean comments, vandalism, threats and fights. One of the main characters threaten three immigrant children and an Indian shopkeeper with a knife. In the end, he beats up his Jamaican friend because he is jealous of his great and normal family.
The movies shows a lot of discrimination against the three groups of people. However, they also show how the groups fought through and moved past the prejudice . In the two first movies, Thatcher and the gay group proves that they are people with human rights, and that they can do what everyone said they could not do, with no less efficiency. In the third movie, the group learns that their preconceived notions might be wrong and they start to move past

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