“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.”
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
The impacts Margaret Thatcher made with her unique leadership left a lasting cultural legacy. Similar to her time as a leader, her cultural legacy reflects her divisiveness. A range of cultural depictions from hate filled satirical ones to more favorable ones, Thatcher continues to hold her place in history.
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