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04-27-2008, 06:14 PM | #1 | ||
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04-27-2008, 06:25 PM | #2 |
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very interesting. are there gangs of drunken youths caroming around suburban Britain? or, maybe it's not a paradox--maybe we feel so safe because we have all these guns. dunno.
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04-27-2008, 06:38 PM | #3 |
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maybe there's a perception that the US is dangerous (at least more dangerous than other places) because of tv and movies.
here's another article. It does say that "women entering a bar or restaurant alone can be perceived as 'looking for company'" which I'm not sure I agree with. A bar, yes--a restaurant, not so much. http://www.usatourist.com/english/tips/safety.html
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04-27-2008, 11:20 PM | #4 |
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There is a perception overseas that because we have all these guns, and gangs, and urban bullshyte, and we are the wild west. It's oh so dangerous.
We don't have soccer huligans tho.....
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04-28-2008, 12:21 PM | #6 |
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Sad but true.
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Also: Perry Winkle: if one were to be invited up to Newcastle, should one bring coal? I've heard this expression many times...
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04-28-2008, 02:20 PM | #8 | |
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04-28-2008, 02:49 PM | #9 |
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"One reason - perhaps the overriding reason - is that there is no public drunkenness in polite America, simply none.
I have never seen a group of drunk young people in the entire six years I have lived here. I travel a lot and not always to the better parts of town. " Obviously they have never been to Savannah during St. Pats or NO during the Mardi Gras.
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I have never heard anyone be directly racist to another person in my life. 35 years in England and not one verbal or physical address. I've heard muttered comments. I've heard racist jokes. I've overheard racist views, but they have only been espoused in peer groups - mostly in pubs, mostly by old men. Occasionally unwitting racism from the sort of people who have friends in a different ethnic group but think they must be different - it's "the other type" they have a problem with. And yes - there is a problem with drink culture in Britain. But again - I have not seen drunken youths "in suburbia". Certainly not where I live. I lived on the main route between the Uni and the city centre in Leicester. Yes, drunken youths did roll up the street in the early hours of the morning. But it was a University town. And yes I know there are hotspots where people are apparently afraid to go out because of drunken misbehaviour. But the media blow it out of proportion imho. There are areas worldwide where people are afraid to leave their houses. If the worst we have in the UK is that after 23.00 people think they might encounter a bunch of half cut slappers that will fall over on their own, let alone if they're pushed, then I don't see that as dowtown Baghdad. Oh and the papers love to blame the Govt. And the tabloids love to blame the parents (under the influence of the Govt). And the parents love to blame the teachers. And the teachers blame the parents under the influence of the media. Well if we have such a generation of degenerates I say do a King Herod, slaughter the lot and make people apply for child permits to reproduce in future. That'll halt the damn liberal slide into hell, right? (Sorry, rant above influenced by Radio 5 phone in last week that I couldn't beleive what I was hearing).
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04-28-2008, 06:50 PM | #11 |
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Type in "Racism in the UK" in Google. There is plenty of info there.
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04-28-2008, 07:16 PM | #12 |
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Merc I'm certainly not saying it doesn't exist. Of course it does, in the UK as in every country. And I'm not claiming Perry is lying.
I'm just balancing Perry's experience in Newcastle against my own in Bucks, Herts, Oxon, Leics, London and anywhere I've been on a visit or holiday. The same way you would if someone related something they'd seen in their 6 months in your country that you hadn't experienced in 35 years.
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04-28-2008, 07:26 PM | #13 |
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SG, And I did not mean to put you on the defense. The people who I have personally known from the UK are not very fond of people of color or the huge influx of Arab/Persian/Indians(India). Strange that with such a small exposure to the people of the UK that I have had I experienced such an opposit experience. I keep my mind open.
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04-28-2008, 07:29 PM | #14 |
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My friend Ryan was drunk (on 10 shots of rum in as many minutes) before noon sunday, before I even woke up.
that is all.
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