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The England football team suit and globalisation

Ruth Tarrant

11th February 2016

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The story of the creation of the England football team's suit for Euro 2016 is a great example to use in analysing globalistion, with elements created all over the world - look at the map below, and read this BBC article, to see if you can decide whether the suit is "English" or not.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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