[ijcr]

It is wonderful to be appreciated by a Scottish POS>

[Mister Baredog]

They think David Beckham plays 'hockey', and fewer than 5 per cent of them will ever want to visit us.

It's always nice to have someone else tell you what you think

I guess I'm in the 5%(that would be 15 million BTW) Not only have I visited them but I know Beckham is an overprice soccer player married to a spice girl. Woopie!

What an arrogant author. Full of BS and himself. LOL

[jocon307]

He doesn't seem to like the Bulgarians either.

[Madame Dufarge]

The Americans now see us, apparently, as 'introverted, arrogant bores

I didn't before, but I could be persuaded after reading this.

[Phsstpok]

No, these respondents, we are told by a new British Council study, are America's young 'high achievers', the coming royalty of commerce. They think David Beckham plays 'hockey', and fewer than 5 per cent of them will ever want to visit us.

There's another thread on this study. Buried way down in the text is the fact that the respondents are all "people of color" and have no ethnic or cultural ties in their family histories to Britain or Europe (except as victims of colonization). Talk about slanted data.

Garbage in, garbage out, and it leaves a bad smell on your breath when you throw it up all over the printed page.

[highlander_UW]

This guy is a bozo. I know who Beckham is and I've never heard of most of his nationalistic insults...but he's right about the French.

[blanknoone]

Also a distortionist. Didn't even bother to mention that the survey he cited was bunk...they only questioned high achieving minority students...far from the snapshot of what 'Americans' as a whole think.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** the Bulgarians as torn-faced miserly cut-throat scum who would sooner slice open their neighbour's first-born than pick up a bar of soap; ****

I thought this was the French!

[RichInOC]

Euan complains about the stereotype and then proceeds to prove that in his case at least, the "arrogant bore" part is exactly right. Nice going, Jock. Feel free to let us stay the hell away from your bosom.

[WestTexasWend]

What an ugly piece! (The article, too...) I don't have any of the views he thinks I have, but I do recognize him. He's just another bitter liberal, and if I want to see such a wretched waste of skin and air I'll save the plane fare and drive by the poli-sci pod on any college campus.

[tjwmason]

A quick point to note, this is from The Observer which is the Sunday equivalent of The Guardian which is somewhat akin to Pravda. If you feel insulted by this article, take it as a badge of honour.

Speaking as a Briton, I have found Americans to be far more aware of the U.K. than the stereotype suggests, but then most Americans I know are FReepers, and thus far above average in everyway. They have also been very appreciative of our good customs, if not quite understanding of our slight oddities; personally, I think that is the best relationship for two nations to have.

[sgtbono2002]

After seeing that plucky Italian fellow who showed Al Quaeda how an Italian dies, I sure dont see Italians as Cowards. Now the Frogs , Yes bed wetting cowards.

[pragmatic_asian]

I've noticed that everyone loves to criticise the US but can't even take a hint about their own flaws. I'm not saying that those polls are a accurate assesment of the UK but they can't even seem to stand the thought that someone doesn't like them. You would think that it would make him think twice about forming the same stereotypes about the US and Americans.

He left out the fact that it wasn't a general sample of Americans. It was a poll of high achieving (A's and B's) minority college students with lots of extracuricular activities. As someone who fits that general description, I can tell you that most of us had a hell of a lot more to worry about than what some other country was really like. The kids that wanted to go to the UK either knew enough or found out enough to make an informed decision. I talked to several students who had studied abroad in the UK before I signed up for a semester at Oxford. As with any foreign country, it's not as good as the ol' USA.

[hedgetrimmer]

Don't worry about it. All the liberty loving Scots were removed by the British government or left voluntarily 300 years ago. They came to the United States and were instrumental in fighting for the Revolution, and creating the wonderful Constutitional government that is our inheritance.

Pity the p'ur folk who were left behind.

[Viking2002]

I didn't understand a word he said..........

[LibKill]

I write better than than when I'm dead drunk.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The Americans now see us, apparently, as 'introverted, arrogant bores

Not all of you, I just have one name on my list of introverted, arrogant Scottish bores.

Euan Ferguson

What a coincidence!

[Leisler]

This is the reason I never drive into Canada. First Quebec, and then...what's it's name. No thanks.

[LiberalBassTurds]

LMAO. I refuse to be baited. He is right on one part..." The French as dogbreathy bed-hoppers..."

LBT

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[boris]

"No, not a mistress, a 'stalker'; we are the ones who know, obsessively, their tastes, their plans, their favourite films, and they are the ones with a dim recollection of poking us once in a cabbagey attic and an even hazier recollection of our name."

And saved their bacon in innumerable ways when Hitler had other plans for them.

--Boris

[teletech]

“The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans.
The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate the Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch—
And I don’t like anybody very much.”

"The Merry Minuet"......The Kingston Trio.