Posted on 11/26/2014 4:34:46 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Who is funding the printing and costs of feeding of this foreign disinformation effort? Why is our USIA not out there contradicting this jab at America’s law-and-order stance?
I missed your heavy /sarc tag on this. (Well, maybe your sarcasm is obvious enough.)
Embassy London's PA staff were probably out on the sidewalk with the demonstrators.
They (the Brits) are largely anti-American but I found most of them to be friendly on a one-to-one basis. I guess they thought I was the rare exception to the usual “ugly American.”
No, we aren’t. Most British are pro-American, to be sure there are some things about the US we don’t like, but then I am sure the same could be said from your side of the atlantic.
No, it isn’t, no they aren’t, no they shouldn’t*.
*—but then, as we are discussing this on FR under the United Kingdom headlines, Americans discuss what happens in the UK and elsewhere.
The majority of British people are not anti-American. The normal folk, not the vocal minority.
The average Brit/Irish is not anti-American. What you read is from the vocal leftist minority and leftwing media who dislike America for political reasons.
The Daily Mail is conservative (and detested in the UK by the left for it).
Well, if the majority of Brits are not anti-American they sure don’t make as much noise as those that are; which, I guess, is about what you said.
Communists/Muzz.
Empty vessels make the loudest noise.
It's not from reading, FRiend. It's from unpleasant personal experiences on three different U.K. visits. What you say is true speaking of "averages." Unfortunately it's the folks on the average's "downside" who've poisoned my travel experiences there. It's the totally unprovoked verbal attacks simply because one is American that have convinced me to spend my travel dollars in friendlier places.
What's sad is I was always pretty much an Anglophile -- until I experienced today's reality. I don't go looking for trouble. My wife and I try our best to blend in and observe local customs. But there's an outspoken and sneering anger by some toward Americans that I have a choice to avoid in the future, and avoid it I will.
By insinuation I suppose you think I’m the typical “ugly American.” There are such folks for sure, but I’m not one of them. If it helps your ego to think everyone else is and you’re not, continue to enjoy your foolish superiority complex.
I had an experience with a British customs officer who, when I said concilatorally I'm that I was glad to cooperate fully with his inspection, responded: You don't have any other choice or words to that effect.
His taunts were just friendly enough to escape being confrontational but they had an unmistakable edge. He asked where we were headed and my daughter said "We're going to Edinburgh on holiday." He brightened a little at that. "Most Americans say they're on vay-kay-shun," he enunciated mockingly, appreciating her recognition of the difference.
About that time I spotted some rolled hay bales in a field. "Look," I said, "crop circles!" He and the other rail employees on the car crowded to the windows and finally had a laugh at my little joke. I guess we broke their mental stereotype of Americans and after that we all got along "brilliantly," as they say over there.
I think the point you yourself made in post 77 covers what I would say. That a lot of what you and other Americans might see as ‘attacks’ are in fact just good natured ‘banter’ as we Brits might say.
I am sorry that you suffered attacks, if genuine and not banter (the very dry British sense of humour sometimes causes problems). If all negative situations happened in London, I wouldn’t be surprised, if not, then I am surprised and saddened.
But I will still say that most British people are not anti-American, American culture is a mainstay of what UK people watch, read and listen to. And millions of British visit the US every year.
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