Talking Essex: landscapes, stereotypes and ghosts

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    Spotlight 4/2018
    Talking Essex
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    Essex, just north-east of London, is a largely ruralländlich, dörflichrural county with beautiful landscapes, pretty villages and a long coastline with sandy beachSandstrandsandy beaches. Yet it to struggleSchwierigkeiten habenstruggles to to shake off sth.etw. loswerdenshake off the stereotype of “Essex boys” and “Essex girls” – men and women who are seen as loud, materialistic, brashdreist, frechbrash and unintelligent.

    Spotlight editor-in-chief Inez Sharp and online editor Toby Skingsley are from Essex. In this video, they talk about their home county, what an Essex boy and Essex girl are, and whether the stereotype is fair. And they even have a ghostly story to tell.

     

    Talking Essex: landscapes, stereotypes and ghosts from Spotlight Verlag GmbH on Vimeo.

     

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