Posted on 04/12/2007 11:17:01 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
Christian Cox, a US citizen living in London, wrote to the BBC news website to express her concern about the amount of abuse she receives because of her nationality.
She says the level of anti-Americanism she has experienced "feels like a kind of racism".
"I don't want anyone to feel sorry for Americans, or me, I just want people to realise that we are dealing with hatred too."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
If all else fails, just wear a Kaffiyeh and threaten to chop their heads off. They seem to wet themselves over that.
Britian is fast becoming an utterly vicious, violent, hateful society. If you were there, were completely outnumbered, and the pommie scum were directing their unhinged vitriol at you, you might feel differently.
Ms Cox, 29, says she has been called, among other things, “terrorist”, “scum”, “low life”, and feels that she is constantly being held to account for the actions of President Bush and for US foreign policy.
This is despite the fact that she doesn’t agree with the war in Iraq and didn’t vote for Bush.
However she adds: “Bush is our leader and I respect that. It’s a bit like the way you feel about your father. You don’t always agree with him, but you would defend him
There is an easy solution to that problem....
I lived in Europe for some time after that and travelled there many other times. I found this to be true.
I remember one incident very well. I was in the Ritz Bar in Paris, sipping wine and silently musing on the spectres of Scot Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. I told the waiter about my musings. He was quite friendly.
About that time, I was distracted by the loud voice of an obnoxious woman with a thick American accent, talking to the same waiter. She announced where she was from in the U.S., but I'll keep that to myself.
I slunk down in my booth, hoping not to be noticed.
Then she asked where the little Limoge ashtrays were that they Ritz Bar used to have.
The waiter said they had to discontinue them because people stole them.
The woman said, in her very loud voice, "Yes! I took a bunch of them. I've got a collection of them at home."
The waiter said nothing.
She then added: "But I think they like for you to take things like that, don't you? I mean...it's good advertisment."
The waiter said nothing.
Neither did I. I slunk further down in my booth.
But the Brits are open minded, excepting and tolerant. They follow the liberal formula over there. How can they be “hateful” towards anyone?
(/sarcasm)
I remember being in England and getting so used to the beautiful British accent, that when I heard an American accent it was kind of jarring. Not in a bad way necessarily, but it really stood out. There is still absolutely no excuse for the rudeness of the Brits toward Americans. It would be intolerable for an American to do this to a foreign visitor. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that it is very rare that a foreigner would suffer this kind of abuse from our citizens. Why do the Brits feel entitiled to do this to one of ours on a regular basis? The comments section was particularly pathetic, saying we “deserve” abuse because of our President, and how some Americans are “ashamed” by our country. Screw these people.
Well, there you have it. Someone shows a bit of racism, and the lefties are now saying it’s the VICTIMS who have to change.
Well, isn’t that interesting. And contradictory. And typically lefty.
Not sure how a year old article constitutes news.
Pointless post of an old article.
If you want to know how the tens of thousands of Americans living in Britain feel about it look here:
http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?board=6.0
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