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What were the social attitudes during world war 2? - RAWЯ - 12-13-2012 09:01 AM
Give 3 examples of social attitudes during world war 2 and websites links would be very helpful too. Thanks
- CMV - 12-13-2012 09:09 AM
Wrong section - you want homework help .
- IA - 12-13-2012 09:09 AM
Unfortunately the Mass Observation archive is not in the public domain having been sold to a private company.
The links below give you some information extracted from them.
Subjects you could explore are the reactions to the bombing, see the Mass Observation report on the Coventry bombing in the link below. Reactions to rationing and the Black Market. British rejection of racial segregation when the US stationed Black soldiers in the UK.
There was some resentment of the foreign troops stationed in Britain. Famously the Americans were described as "over-sexed, over-paid and over here", and similar complaints were made about the Poles and the French who were much better at wooing young women than the British being much more debonair and actually using cologne.
- Gerald - 12-13-2012 09:09 AM
I suppose the attitude to women was one of the biggest from housewives to working women
on the land and in industries doing jobs that had previously been considered unfit for them.
People were more supportive to one another giving shelter to those made homeless people
in the rural areas welcomed children evacuated from the cities to their homes to live and generally
pulling together.
And of course there was a veil of secrecy everywhere the old saying (careless talk costs lives) was
everywhere strangers were treated with extreme caution even signposts were turned to the wrong
directions.