Britons .... Polite but Boring !!!

Tool. It's not a lack of terminology. It's a difference in opinion. You share a more socialistic view of economy. What you don't get, is that I was implying that I don't CARE that feel there is a disproportionate spread in wealth. You don’t know what it is like to live and work here. You don’t know what advantages we have or don’t have to the fullest. I am telling you that What you also didn’t get was that in this country, for the most part it is a disproportionate spread in wealth, but rather in work ethic. If you work hard here, good things will happen to you.

What do you do in school if you don't learn about the world. Geography and History anyone?

When people are working two jobs at a time and still failing to earn enough to feed their families, it seems impossible to call them lazy or selfish. There seems to be a failure in the system, not the poor themselves.

This is wrong. And, I'll explain why when I get back from work. (Seriously, I don't have time, I have to get ready for work.)

You take courses specifically designated to teach in these areas. But, over time there are certain things you retain, and certain things you don't. You generally retain the things you can use later in life better. How many jobs require a great deal of knowledge in history? Not many. Europeans may know a lot about other nations because European nations are much smaller, and commerce is very intertwined there. That being said, the US is a large nation, and the majority of the population doesn't deal with the outside world on a personal level, mainly because we don't need to.

I’m not defending the fact that American citizens are ignorant to the outside world. I think they should be more educated. But, they don’t HAVE to because if they aren’t their lives aren’t altered that much. I’m only telling you why, not saying that it’s right.

Eh you can't really generalise about America - it's obviously an advanced country yet 60% believe in intelligent design/creationism, they have the highest percentage of impoverished people in the developed world, yet it's a hugely rich country where many can work their way up.. and so on.

As for what the thread was originally about (..before being derailed by the anti-America bandwagon

..I'm glad to see that, despite being boring, we are loved!

60% seems a bit high when the majority of Americans don't even attend church regularly. I'd love to see those statistics put into proper context.
Seventy percent of people living in Europe believe in God, so are things really that different?



Probably the only thing you've said that's accurate in your post. Americans do like Brits, but I think that would change if we all really knew how Britons felt about us.

Eh you can't really generalise about America - it's obviously an advanced country yet 60% believe in intelligent design/creationism, they have the highest percentage of impoverished people in the developed world, yet it's a hugely rich country where many can work their way up.. and so on.

As for what the thread was originally about (..before being derailed by the anti-America bandwagon ..I'm glad to see that, despite being boring, we are loved!

Fair enough. That stat doesn't mean much, but the point is that poverty is a relative term. Poverty in Zimbabwe is not the same as poverty in the USA.



I thought you enjoyed living here from some of your other posts. Are your frustrations with your healthcare plan enough to consider permanently moving to another country?

And I don't think you can deny that the Christian right have far greater power in America than they do in Europe. Certainly in Britain, we don't have a strong (or indeed, any) movement of *cough* religious nuts demanding that intelligent design be taught in schools, for example.

The so-called evangelical movement is blown completely out of proportion by the BBC. Intelligent design will NEVER NEVER be taught in American public schools. Intelligent design will NEVER be taught as science in any non-evangelical college or university.

It seems like BBC's only purpose is to perpetuate national stereotypes as the basis of serious and on-going reporting. I'm always reading stories on the obesity “crisis” in America or some story on evangelicals.

Sometimes I wish the American media would run a story everyday for years on end on your fungus-teeth just to give you a taste of your own medicine and reinforce negative British stereotypes

Bearing in mind the following news article from Yahoo News

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21022006/344/british-polite-boring-poll.html

where:

>> Britons are widely seen as Polite & Educated, but sadly Boring &
>> French as being the Rudest, while
>> American are seen as Most Ignorant (isn't it a common knowledge ???) & Ambitious

However, I wonder as WHAT EXACTLY is it that's seen as a sign of "Politeness" & "Boredom" within an individual Briton, in the eyes of Johny Foreigner ???

I have enjoyed living here. But I want to get back to reality; away from big haired blondes with massive white teeth driving their obnoxious and dysfunctional offspring to school in Hummers.

I'm not sure the minor improvements (if any) I enjoy in quality of life in the US are worth the price I pay; being away from my country, friends, countrymen, family etc.

That has to be just about the worst analogy I've ever heard in my life.
Apples and oranges. England isn't the same size as the United States. England is the size of Alabama. How many cities can you name in Alabama?

A lot of stereotypes are pretty inaccurate.

For example, visit NYC's Park Avenue and you'll still find the upper East Side moneyed crowd. I find them to be patronizing, ultra liberal elites who love to tell the masses how they should be living their lives. As much as I dislike them, I must concede that most of them know far more about geopolitics than the vast majority of people you'll ever meet anywhere in the world.

Until you can correctly label at least 50% of US states on a blank map, without aid, I don't want to hear you complain about Americans and geography.

That has to be just about the worst analogy I've ever heard in my life.
Apples and oranges. England isn't the same size as the United States. England is the size of Alabama. How many cities can you name in Alabama?

Tell me the United States isn't the single most influetial country in the World. Tell me it doesn't have more than double the GDP of the next closest competitor. The US runs ****. Flat out. And, denying that would be quite a moronic move on your part.
(And, do you honestly have to follow every sentence with a smiley face? )

Politeness: (Or lack thereof) "Americans are seen as most ignorant (isn't it a common knowledge)"

Boring: This is about the 8000th thread to call American ignorant/fat/stupid/lazy/full of ourselves/rude

Tell me United States has MORE gun crimes than around this part of the world. Tell me it has MORE gay priest in church than any other nation of the world. Tell me it has MORE torturing & cock-ups record than any other nation on the planet & denying that would be a rather idiotic.

And, haven't you seen the poll saying "Britons being POLITE" & our smiley face is just a small part of this politeness

Tell me United States has MORE gun crimes than around this part of the world. Tell me it has MORE gay priest in church than any other nation of the world. Tell me it has MORE torturing & cock-ups record than any other nation on the planet & denying that would be a rather idiotic.

And, haven't you seen the poll saying "Britons being POLITE" & our smiley face is just a small part of this politeness