My eyes were opened when I was in Britain on business last year. Their attitude toward Americans was beneath contempt. It's as if they know deep down that they have sold their birthright as being on the vanguard of Western Civilization to try to get the continental Europeans to like and accept them. Instead, the French and Germans still look down on them.
In their anger, they lash out at us, because lashing out at the continentals would be both shameful and pointless. To the continentals they pretend camaraderie, with the cooperation of the contintentals, as long as they walk two steps behind the French of course. To us they are intentionally rude, superior, accusatory, and shrill.
At one time, I intended to take a trip through Britain as a vacation. No more.
I'm sorry that you met some rude and unpleasant British people, but we aren't all like that.
It's as if they know deep down that they have sold their birthright as being on the vanguard of Western Civilization to try to get the continental Europeans to like and accept them. Instead, the French and Germans still look down on them. In their anger, they lash out at us, because lashing out at the continentals would be both shameful and pointless. To the continentals they pretend camaraderie, with the cooperation of the contintentals, as long as they walk two steps behind the French of course. To us they are intentionally rude, superior, accusatory, and shrill.
They sound like Labour or Liberal Democrat voters to me, since no British Conservative cares whether or not the continental Europeans like us!
By the way, I should tell you that the person who posted this thread has a long history of Brit bashing and posting untrue and misleading articles about the UK in order to cause friction between British and US freepers. He has also confessed to another British freeper that he does this to get revenge on British people in general for a disagreement he had with some Brits on another forum.
At one time, I intended to take a trip through Britain as a vacation. No more.
Now I don't know where in Britain you went, but I can assure you that the attitudes of Britons towards Americans varies from place to place. For example, if you were to visit York (Northern England), where I live, you would find that the vast majority of people are friendly and pleasant to Americans. US visitors often tell me how much they enjoyed visiting this city, and the beer is good too!
All the best,
On many trips to Britain I've occasionally encountered rudeness to Americans. In my experience they are the same angry leftist boors who act the same way about President Bush and conservatives in America. The thing to do about them is ignore the poor benighted souls, certainly not to let them ruin a day or a trip.
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My eyes were opened when I was in Britain on business last year. Their attitude toward Americans was beneath contempt. It's as if they know deep down that they have sold their birthright as being on the vanguard of Western Civilization to try to get the continental Europeans to like and accept them. Instead, the French and Germans still look down on them.
In their anger, they lash out at us, because lashing out at the continentals would be both shameful and pointless. To the continentals they pretend camaraderie, with the cooperation of the contintentals, as long as they walk two steps behind the French of course. To us they are intentionally rude, superior, accusatory, and shrill. >>
My very regular experience also. In Britain, which I visit often -- my son lives there -- and especially in in the very many foreign countries in which I continuously travel and among the very many Brits [And every other kind of Euro-peon] I constantly associate with.
I was born a "British Subject," was what they call "Public School" educated -- and when I talk, sound a bit like a cross between John Cleese and Edward Fox and so am never taken for an American by any once-great-British stranger -- and always get the full-on boorish british bastardry before any of them wakes up to my even being an American -- let alone of that most passionate variety -- a convert!
And, in fairness, of course there is a percentage -- although small and getting smaller by the minute -- of Brits who love Americans and everything American -- but the vast majority of them are at best condescending toward US and supercilliously sanctimonious in their imagined superiority which, to a girlyman, including here on FR, they demonstrate in the most inferior manner imaginable!
I sometimes wonder if (London mayor) Ken Livingston speaks the thoughts of a majority of Brits. I mean, I HOPE that most Brits see Livingston for the simple scumbag and political whore that he clearly is, but I wonder how many do?
Did you by any chance do all of that business in London? The sealed-off leftosphere that encloses that city makes it no more representative of the rest of the country than Manhattan is of the US.