Abstract
At the time when Harry and Meghan dramatically announced their departure from the UK, that decision came as a surprise even to those who closely observed events on the British Royal Court, and like a bolt out of the blue to others. Although numerous articles and books have been published on Megxit over the past four years, the real reasons for this phenomenon have yet to be fully ascertained. This research into Harry and Meghan's chronicle started immediately after Megxit happened, with a case study that was carried out with third-year students at the English Department of Belgrade University's Faculty of Philology. The students had one simple task: to describe what they saw as the main cause or causes for Megxit, and they were given the liberty to choose the form and length of their writing. It is important to underline that the respondents had already completed three courses in British Studies: about UK's history, institutions and culture, and were starting the fourth course, so their knowledge about the British Royal Family was quite adequate. Nowadays, after a sufficiently long time distance, it is rather interesting to analyse the views of Serbian students regarding Megxit and to compare them with what has been revealed so far. The main purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether the students have mastered the topics covered by their British Studies curricula sufficiently enough to provide reasonable causes for Megxit.
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Biljana Djoric Francuski, University of Belgrade, Serbia
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Conference: ECAH2024
Stream: Other Humanities
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To cite this article:
Francuski B. (2024) Then and Now: Serbian Students’ Attitudes on Megxit ISSN: 2188-1111 – The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 1-10) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1111.2024.1
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1111.2024.1
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