The British attitude is like the Dutch...

GuestUser   Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:56 am GMT
The British attitude is essentially a toned-down version of the Dutch attitude. Both countries are fully consumed by poltical correctness, in both countries Muslims rule the roost, Sharia courts are becoming common place and people openly insult Christianity, and call it a violent religion of conquests but wouldn't DARE insult Islam or refer to it as violent.

Both countirs hate their own native culture and view foreign cultures as vastly superior. Whoile the Dutch have slightly more contempt for their own culture, the British are still on the whole rather embarresed by theirs and think ethnic minorities (usually of the lowest castes from India and Pakistan) add sophistication and diversity.

The British also hate their own language in the same way the Dutch hate theirs. Not quite to the same extent, as, as English is loved and bummed everywhere outside the UK (It's true), there is no real motivation to learn a foreign language, but none the less, the fact British rarely speak foreign languages doesn't mean they some arrogant love of their own language quite the opposite.

Most British really don't like the fact they are mono-linguial, and genuinely feel inferior to the rest of Europe for it, they view ALL foreigns as being able to speak foreign languages and simply assume that non-British must have a higher mental capcity than British - which is some of the reason why when shitloads of foreign workers come to Britian they're always claimed as harder and more intelligent workers than native British.

This is a sharp contrast to a monolingustic French, Italian or Spaniard who is usually proud of the fact he is monologuial and if asked to speak English would probably tell the asker to go fuck himself. However, if a Brit was addressed in French or Spanish, he would probably feel slightly inferior that he was unable to speak the language and might even apologise for his bad linguistic education.

British are most definately rather like the Dutch, both countries fuan over foreigners, compliment and praise foreign cultures continuously while condesending and insulting their own, and feeling inferior about their own.
Blanc   Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:10 am GMT
Are you sure they're not even MORE spineless than the Dutch. Here's an excerpt from what Damian from Edinburgh wrote in another thread:


<<While we're on this topic let's concentate on our dear neighbours to the south...the English. Why on earth do so few of them have the guts to fly their own national flag...the Cross of St George.....the red cross on a white background which forms the focal point of the overall UK flag....the Union Flag*? The only time they can overcome this fear of Anglo patriotism is when England have succeeded in playing in the World Cup when the whole of England, from Berwick-upon-Tweed down to Penzance, and from Hereford across to Lowestoft, becomes a waving sea of St George flags. Other than that they live in fear of being regarded as racists and, even worse, members of the ultra right wing, fascist and racist BNP (British National Party) although this particular political group (which actually has elected members to the European Parliament in Brussels) deny being either racist or fascist but that's what you'd expect them to say, wouldn't you?

In areas of England (and other parts of the UK to a much lesser extent) with a high incidence of immigrants in its population native born English/British people have been forced by the local authorities to remove any St George/Union flags from display on their properties on the pretext that it may well "upset or offend ethnic people and possibly incite racist violence in the area". How ridiculously distorted is that? >>


If that's not ridiculously distasteful, then shit tastes like cotton candy, because this is literally more distasteful than shit.
Matematik   Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:17 am GMT
The UK quite possibly is worse, in the Netherlands, it's still resonably common to see the Dutch flag flying, and it doesn't have any stigma attached to it as being racist or offensive to foreigners. I can't imagine local councils telling people not to fly Dutch flags in the same way English councils tell people not to fly English flags.
Todd Stakeheart   Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:58 am GMT
The English flag looks good atop a Church of England steeple or hanging down from a lofty height inside the building, otherwise the England flag looks like trash in any other kind of setting.
nice...   Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:09 pm GMT
"The English flag looks good atop a Church of England steeple or hanging down from a lofty height inside the building, otherwise the England flag looks like trash in any other kind of setting." <= Pure Germanic sentence. Keep up the good work!