Life in Modern Britain

• What are the 5 British values?

  Democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, religious tolerance and mutual respect and equality
• Why were the British values created?

  In 2015, 3 girls from Bethnal Green made a trip to Syria via Turkey to join a terrorist group- ISIS
• What is democracy?

  People have a say in how country is run with the right to vote and participation in decision-making with free, fair regular elections
• What is rule of law?

  Ensuring equality before the law and fairness in legal proceedings. Everyone, including government officials, is subject to the law.
• What is individual liberty?

  Individual freedom and autonomy. Ensures citizens have the right to express their views, beliefs, and identity without undue interference.
• What is religious tolerance?

  Acceptance of different beliefs and customs
• What is mutual respect and equality?

  Everyone is equal via, age, race, sex, etc
• What's a right?

  Power/privilege, considered building blocks to our society
• What is a responsibility?

  Things you have to do, often not voluntary e.g. pay tax, jury duty
• Whats identity?

  Set of characteristics that make a person who they are
• What's national identity?

  Shown through cultural identity, based upon literature, customs, music, language and sport
• Whats emigration?

  People leave their country to live permanently elsewhere
• Whats immigration?

  Movement of people coming to live permanently in foreign country
• Whats migration?

  Movement of people from one country to another
• Whats net migration?

  Difference between the number of people immigrating to a country and the number of people emigrating from that country.
• Whats global identity?


  Concept that some aspects of identity are global in nature
• Whats push migration?

  Factors that push someone away from their country
• Whats pull migration?

  Factors that attract people to a country
• Whats media?

  Means of communication
• Whats mass media?

  Any media form, reaching many people at the same time
• Whats e-media?

  All forms relating to the internet
• Whats traditional media?

  Radio, cinema, television and newspapers
• Whats social media?

  People interacting with eachother on the internet
• Whats new media?

  All non-traditional forms
• Who funds the BBC?

  TV license- so they must have no bias when reporting
• Whats freedom of press?


  Newspapers, social media, etc are allowed post any story they would like
• Whats censorship?

  Control and suppression of information by preventing publication
• What can media report on without interference?

  Matters of public interest
• Whats freedom of information act 2000?


  Act giving right of access to information held by public authorities, e.g. schools, hospitals
• Whats IPSO?

  Independent press standard organisation- government regulator set up to handle complaints & conducts of newspapers
• Whats IPSO editors code?

  Sets out rules newspapers regulated by IPSO agreed to follow, e.g. suicide, sexual assault victim's name
• Whats Ofcom?


  Office of communication- government regulator for TV and radio
• Whas GDP?

   Total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy
• Whats WTO?

  World trade organisation,

  1995

  162 members

  Deals with rules of trade between nations, settle disputes, promote 'free trade'
• Whats EU?

  European Union

  27 countries

  Created in 1951 as coal and steel community

  1992- became EU

  2020- UK left
• Whats commonwealth?

  53 members (2.4 billion people)

  1949 after British empire decolonised 'equal partners'

  Promote diversity, development, democracy
• Whats UN?

  United Nations

  1945

  General assembly- 193 members, once a year, recommends

  Security Council- 15 members, 5 permanent, decide
• UN's 5 permenant members?

  UK, USA, Russia, France and China
• Whats VETO?

  Power to reject
• Whats NATO?

  North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

  30 members , 3 nucleur (USA, UK, France)

  Article 5 'Attack on one, attack on all'