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The First Word War, was a British/European war though. You bet your bottom dollar, Australians are going to protest being sent to fight in Europe (unless they l
by barrysteve 3y ago
The First Word War, was a British/European war though. You bet your bottom dollar, Australians are going to protest being sent to fight in Europe (unless they like the hunt, then it's a whole 'nother story).
The Brits do internal confrontation, behind closed doors in private, and in negative inferences/sarcasm/irony in public.
What Brits don't do, is go against the establishment, which is what most foreigners bump into on day one. And brits have the concept of something being 'not the done thing'.
So you end up with a society that agrees on most things and has a fine line of disagreement that is invisibly negotiated...
Good luck!
- tmjwid 3y agoMustn't grumble is in my opinion our national motto. We do have dissidence, but is met with contempt and apathy. Look at the national outrage over just stop oil stopping some cars on the a motorway. The rage was baffling, mass psychosis just took over the nation.
- bowsamic 3y agoLook at how Jeremy Clarkson reacted with anger that Megan had complaints about the royal family. He was absolutely feverish, animalistic
- gambiting 3y agoA lot of people did. The whole "how dare you" attitude was taken to an absolute extreme, it was as if she stabbed the queen personally for some people.
- barrysteve 3y agoCheeky as it may be to say... I always preffered Russel Crowe in Master and Commander as the ideal image of Brits, rather than a dressed up car salesman. Hammond and May are spiffing, but Clarkson too often, only shows up to the job and doesn't follow meaningfully through. What a world we live in where an Australian actor and director (Peter Weir) in Master and Commander put on a more realistic image for British values, than Clarkson's hundred-million-pound productions...