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If you look at the tourist habits of the typical British person, you will find that those examples are highly atypical. I don't think you'll find that the vast
by JetSetWilly 9y ago
If you look at the tourist habits of the typical British person, you will find that those examples are highly atypical.
I don't think you'll find that the vast hordes going to Ibiza every year are "framing Europe around the wars".
Secondly it is a bit insulting to blithely state that anyone from a non-metropolitan area is some sort of country bumpkin thicko.
- barrkel 9y agoI'm not saying they're country bumpkin thickos. I'm saying they're insular and incurious; that says nothing about how smart they are. They can be outstanding in their field; their fields just aren't very worldly. It's not even ignorance, per se; it's disinterest, combined with prejudice, in the literal sense of judged before the evidence. The kids going to Ibiza are just visiting a sunny British resort with funny accents. I'd barely consider that abroad, for the amount of cultural adjustment it entails.
- JetSetWilly 9y agoI don't think you can make a blanket statement that people who don't live in major cities are insular and incurious. This is just plain and simple snobbery and as far as I can tell there's nothing to back it up. Secondly, I wouldn't even say British holiday making habits are especially different to those of other major European nations. If you want to paint a picture of the UK being uniquely backwards and insular then fine, but it doesn't seem to be based on anything outside snobbery and prejudice. It is easy to claim that people you disagree with have all kinds of moral faults, but in doing so you become what you affect to criticise.