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What Was It Like To Be An Immigrant In This Is England

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What was it like to be an immigrant in England under Margaret Thatcher’s reign? The racism during Thatcher’s reign was massive. One of the main reason that racism was so common, were particularly the unemployment for the English. Immigrants “stole” their jobs, so the English had nothing to do. It created a hate against the immigrants and the racism got massive. Racism is one of the most common theme in the movie “This is England.” The movie is set in 1983’s England and it deals with some unemployed nationalists skinheads that fought against Thatcher. They did this by tagging racist words and sentences against the immigrants and insulted Thatcher on the walls. However, this was not the worst that they did. Looting, stealing from small stores
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