Britons .... Polite but Boring !!!

My Sociology techer said that The English A level was of a higher intellectual level than most counterparts in the world , including the American equivalent. You cant take the heat, plus you still do about 50 million subjects in your senior year which means i can only imagine are being taught at the level of GCSE. Instead of the specialised nautre of A Level. Its soo true that alot of Americans have never heard of Wales and think That The UK is London. :P

Tell me United States has MORE gun crimes than around this part of the world.

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 & 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 ???

that's not true......i'm not boring!

Oh, and we have a lower crime rate than you do, so I'm not sure what you mean by "unsafe mess"

You can laugh and take the piss out of America, but it has one of the highest rates of GDP per capita - You can insult their intelligence and ignorance, but that's only because they're self-interested to a higher extent than most people. That's hardly a bad thing.

Sad fact is if you're born in America you've got an incredibly high chance of being wealthy compared to most other places in the world. The anti-Americanism on this board is astounding - The fact that most people in this country use American brands every day and then complain about the country is not only hypocritical - it's also stupid.

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

America is a competitive front. Unless you come from a little bit of money, or unless you make it career oriented, or a hobby, it is very difficult to find TIME to learn about the rest of the world from an in depth perspective. I got to school for 6 hours a day, I study for 2, and I work for 8. You tell me when I am supposed to find time to leisurely study the economies and governments of the world? The time I don’t spend sleeping I usually spend on the net because I have strange work hours and most of my family and friends are sleeping.

That and think of it this way. You bash people from the United States about not knowing "the rest of the world." That's like criticizing a teacher for not knowing the names of every student in a large lecture. There ARE over 200 countries in this world. The bottom line is that people from other countries get pissy when people from the US don't know a lot about THEIR country, because then they feel as if the people of the United States are portraying them as inferior. That’s totally not the case. Here in the US, where I assure the way of life is more fast paced that 98% of the rest of the world, as an entire nation, if you don’t keep up, you will get lost in the shuffle.

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/guncontrol_20010302.html
http://www.reason.com/0211/fe.jm.gun.shtml

Perhaps we do have more gun crimes, but guns are used to deter a lot of crimes. Maybe you should think about arming yourselves for protection?

that's not true......i'm not boring!

You can laugh and take the piss out of America, but it has one of the highest rates of GDP per capita - You can insult their intelligence and ignorance, but that's only because they're self-interested to a higher extent than most people. That's hardly a bad thing.

Sad fact is if you're born in America you've got an incredibly high chance of being wealthy compared to most other places in the world. The anti-Americanism on this board is astounding - The fact that most people in this country use American brands every day and then complain about the country is not only hypocritical - it's also stupid.

And I agree with whoever said that Britons give the impression of being boring through our love of sarcasm.

Personally I'd say it's a very bad thing. When you have one world, and one chance to get it right, being self-interested can only bring short term benefits. If it is an 'advanced' nation, why doesn't it look around and help the rest of the world, use its advances to everyone's advantage.

Part of the American constitution is a right to bare arms to protect against a tryyannical government. They have a lower crime rate than the UK and so your argument about guns may increase the crime-rate has just been shot in the foot.
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And considering how badly you're losing this argument stop smiling so much.

If it is an 'advanced' nation, why doesn't it look around and help the rest of the world, use its advances to everyone's advantage.

Haha i *highly* doubt that.

1)I don't really think this divide is exclusively an American feature. Exactly the same could be said for London, just look at the workers on the tube. Are you going to tell me now that London is not an advanced city?

2)How exactly do you define 'advanced' anyway? Would it be 'advanced' to kick all the non-white workers from the tube and replace them with white workers? What would this achieve?