ABSTRACT
Gibraltar's formal institutions — law, government and education — are firmly based on models exported from Britain. Much the same is true of the police, the post office and the Gibraltar Regiment. To a large extent these were imposed on the Gibraltarians, although they were more than willingly accepted. It was not a matter of a threatened indigenous culture being displaced by another. In these very direct ways, the Gibraltarian way of life has been shaped by British ideas and practices and by the diffusion of these ideas and practices.
