As for the culture, I feel a similar imposed superiority reigns true too. The undertones — and overtones, to be frank — of racism and colonialism in English pride are uncomfortable. There are so many liberals and leftists who contribute to the idea that tea and cottages and big fucking fields make English pride normalised and correct. English nationalism, or some of it at least, has a component of kind of entitlement and superiority that I would say is an England-specific thing within the UK.
I agree with Gina and think it stems from colonial history, which is remembered a bit too fondly by some! I also agree with James in that southern English people love to be passive-aggressive! And to make weird comments in working environments. They simply love it. I have no explanation for why. Does England have any redeeming qualities at all? There are lots of good people in England and there are lots of people there who are suffering as a result of English state. Newcastle and Liverpool are both achingly beautiful cities; Manchester is a really fun and dynamic place and I always have a great time there.
After the past thousand even. It really is! There is a lot of space in England for people to be themselves, express themselves and ideas in a way that is harder to find in other countries and I feel, to find in Wales.
This is, of course, due to lack of funding and education given to Wales. That is due not just to Manchester having more funding, but a certified effort to create inclusive spaces in England where those on the margins can thrive. The north has suffered at the hands of the southern elite, too.
The north has been underfunded, underrepresented and ignored to benefit the bottom of the country. Although this is starting to change now, parts of England are certainly a lot more multicultural than Northern Ireland.
People from Liverpool and Manchester are usually very cool and good-looking, too. I also agree with James that the drinking culture here is good craic and maybe uniform across the UK? Do you think a successful independence referendum is on the cards for Scotland and Wales, or that we could see Irish unification by the end of this decade? During his leadership, I was very hopeful about what the UK could look like, which is sadly no longer the case.
But… we kind of have perpetual Tory rule anyway! I guess it all hinges on whether we will be given a referendum to vote on or not, or rather when one can finally be put to the Welsh people.
Tryweryn Cofiwch Dryweryn for example, where a Welsh village was evacuated and flooded to become a water reservoir for Liverpool, only happened in the s.
Another example of English oppression is the loss of our language ; kids were still wearing Welsh Nots all the way up to the s. By not just seeing our losses now, but our losses as a whole over the centuries to England, it feels like independence is an inevitability. Connolly: I can see there being a referendum for reunification within a decade, but I have no idea what the result of that would be. It comes down to demographics, really — the number of those from a unionist or nationalist background who vote.
Ireland has no NHS, for example, and that would make a big difference to working-class people. The Irish government has been very good to NI during the Brexit negotiations — even small things like offering to pay for Erasmus for NI students, which I do think is an indication that it may be a possibility within the decade.
The stereotypical English person abroad speaks English -- slowly, loudly and deliberately -- instead of learning the local language, searches out English restaurants as they don't trust "foreign food," and obliterates themselves with booze by the afternoon.
By the evening, their boorish behavior is on full display. But are they really that bad? Or do people just love to hate the English? Tom Jenkins -- who's keen to specify that he's Welsh -- thinks it's a bit of both. The full English. The Spanish town of Magaluf, pictured here in , is popular with British tourists. There's no denying, though, that the English do get in trouble abroad. Every summer, stories of bad behavior -- usually linked to drinking, brawling and general licentious antics -- abound.
Magaluf, on the Spanish island of Mallorca, is nicknamed " Shagaluf " thanks to the tendency of young Brits to fly in for a week of debauchery. Things can get so bad there that in the local authorities had to start a campaign begging them not to get undressed or defecate in public. The people who come here tend to be a little older, but they're looking for a taste of home.
Hence the proliferation of bars and restaurants offering fry-ups of bacon, toast, egg, baked beans for a traditional "full English" breakfast -- all day long. Oh, and good old English beer. Not even celebs are immune to the werewolf-like transformation that seems to occur to the English abroad.
Supermodel Kate Moss was escorted off an easyJet plane by police in when, returning from a vacation in Turkey, she got a little too merry, allegedly swigging from her own bottle of vodka onboard and calling the pilot a "basic bitch.
Former singer and reality TV star Kerry Katona was photographed rolling around on the tarmac at Gran Canaria airport , with her trousers pulled down, in -- something she later blamed on nerves from the flight interacting with alcohol consumption, plus "wanting to sunbathe" the moment she arrived. Two years later, she defended the peculiarly English activity of airport drinking , early in the morning, when Ryanair -- exasperated by the Brits' drunken early-morning antics -- was calling for a ban on early opening hours for UK airport bars.
Even Harry Maguire, part of the squeaky clean England soccer team, which has been highly praised for its new clean-cut image, with stars who give back to the community rather than flaunt their wealth, fell foul of the English abroad curse in summer Maguire was found guilty of aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and bribery attempts after a brawl in Mykonos, allegedly sparked when his sister was stabbed.
Out of control drinking. For London-based psychotherapist Andy Cottom, much of the problem boils down to drink. They don't seem to destroy themselves quite so regularly. Jenkins, however, thinks the English get a bad rap for drunkenness. Have you ever hung out at Oktoberfest? Northeastern Europeans and Russians get drunk under the table. Jenkins thinks the main issue is that Brits are more conspicuous. English is the world's lingua franca, so thugs hurling drunken abuse in English are more likely to be recognized, he says.
What's more, he claims, "the UK is the biggest market for most destinations in Europe, and if you're the largest group, you're likely to be the most detested tourist. Another annoying thing about the English? Brits in general don't spend as much on their vacations.
Not least because, since there are so many of them, they can command the best rates. Obviously not, but a lot of that undesirability is a byproduct of success," he says. So tourists who don't have that spending power are more desired than the English. An industry's silence. Finding people in English-heavy holiday destinations who will talk about how the English behave on holiday is difficult.
The mayor of Mykonos, where Harry Maguire had his brawl, declined to speak to CNN about the English, while the government of the Balearic islands, home to hotspots like Magaluf and San Antonio in Ibiza, agreed to take questions by email -- but then declined to answer them. The mayor of Benidorm did not respond to a request for interview. Neither did the Ciudadanos Benidorm party, which has previously criticized the overbearing English presence in the town.
Perhaps criticizing the English at a time when destinations are desperate to recover from the economic carnage of the pandemic is a no-go. But hotelier Ajay Goyal, founder of Zening Resorts in Cyprus, tells CNN that the English "are hated a lot, even in countries where there wouldn't be any economy without them.
He puts it down to several factors: "Loutish drunken behavior by young tourists; [the idea that] 'You were barbarians before we civilized you but you are unchanged," by many older people; and an overbearing superiority complex.
He says that older English tourists have a nasty habit of "telling people what civility is -- obviously when not drunk. Even more infuriatingly for destinations, the English "have less money than the Germans, Russians and Chinese, and always use cards instead of cash unlike those above," says Goyal.
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