[Kolokotronis]

"They liked their own theologically liberal, intellectualized, little upper-class English Orthodox world, and did absolutely nothing to deal with the influx of Slavic immigrants desperately needing churches, priests, and ministry. Metropolitan Anthony Bloom -- need I say more?...they were going to be overwhelmed by ignorant unwashed masses who didn't speak with Oxbridge accents, and they didn't like it."

Converts can be like that! :) It does figure that the EP would gravitate to a crowd like that. In the GOA we had a name for him which touched on that "social climbing" propensity of his (in fact I think it was coined by one of the hierarchs), but my GOA politeness forbids me to pass it on here.

[Agrarian]

Yes, we converts most certainly can be like that. And when our worse xenoi instincts are fed by, rather than tempered by cradle Orthodox, it is a very bad combo. It happens on both the liberal and conservative ends of the Orthodox spectrum.