Where are Queen Victoria's moral values in the modern English way of life?

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Today, if you search a definition of the 'Victorian moral values' in the Collins, you will find, 'qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of family'. So, first, it's seen today as if it belongs to another period, adjectives from an old time, in relation with the Queen Victoria Age, of course. The Victorian age was the age of Communication between people, an age in which we understood, explicitly the idea of different civilizations. Today, it's hard to take care about the people we live with, even in the EU, we have strong immigration politics, we don't care about the interest and the way of life of our partners in Europe and we fight only for our personal interests.

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[...] The British hospitals have today a bad reputation, in comparison, for example, with the French ones. The British also limited their industrial and technologic activities, which were a great deal in the Victorian Age, and which bring people work, trade, etc The abandon of the Victorian values also contributed to the free expression of women, to more independence of the women in society, to a reconsideration of the women places in the society, which is a really important opposition with the Victorian time! [...]

[...] So, for sure, the Victorian values are related to the Victorian time, but there are some values that continue to exist in our modern world! First, it appears in the refusal of Great Britain to accept adoption of children by homosexual couples, and homosexual weddings, even if it's considered as conservative ideas, it gathers a large part of the European populations to things in this way. About the Church of England, we can say that the Anglican church still exist, first, and then, we can say that, even if we said that there is less an less faith in Great Britain, that doesn't mean that there is less and less people in the churches in GB, even if they don't believe in God, they need to go to the church to hear the priest and that's pretty funny to observe We must add that the doubt was also present at Victoria time, and we have still today, a phenomenon of adaptation, of combination, between the religion and the science, in the same bases it was under Victoria, with the great scientific discovery. [...]

[...] It was, at the time of Victoria, a way to make concrete in Great Britain the “American dream”. Today, the Americans are still an example for the British, for example, we can quote the sad association with the USA during the War in Iraq During Victoria time, people started to take care about the individual and less about the society, with lot of social reforms, and today, the social ethic is still present, and really present in Great Britain. To prove you what I said, the Labour Party was in power after Queen Victoria, and still is in power today; today, children must go to school until 16 in Europe, no children is allowed to work today, and if it would happened, it will be considered as really unbelievable and cruel, books are cheap and everyone can buy them The last thing the British keep from Victorian age is certainly their capitalist orientation of politics, and their sense in affairs, in trade, which was also encourage by Queen Victoria at the beginning!! [...]

[...] So, first, it's seen today as if it belongs to another period, adjectives from an old time, in relation with Queen Victoria Age, of course. That's a bit true, and we can feel nowadays a real “de-moralization” of the society”. First, there is no more sexual restraint, no more prudery in Great Britain and more generally in the Occidental countries too. The homosexual are considered as normal people, things that Queen Victoria wouldn't admit, even if there is still some distinction with the heterosexual couple, especially about adoptions and weeding. [...]

[...] Conclude this part, we must repeat that the Victorian values appears because there was a need to change the corrupt society, with lots of prostitutions, etc, and people needed to turn back to more simple life, with true values. Then, this is with Victoria that appears most of our modern problems: social equity, economical regulation, etc Even if the society has changed, the Victorian moral values are reflected a part of the glory of England, and it still put in example: even in the Victorian architecture cuff Birmingham for example, and we still have these famous and polite British gentlemen, all of this is part of the British culture! [...]