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So, while I am largely well traveled, my time in the UK, the country of "muh heritage" is shockingly limited. With my last trip occurring over 10 years ago. In this case it was to attend a family reunion. And I am conflicted. I really didnt want to believe the worst of /pol/ assessments or @Null 's assessment of the country. But here is my unbiased American opinion.
What. The. Fuck.
This country has gone full on schizophrenic. Ititerally has no idea what it is. At all. First of all let's talk the interactions. In London tourists are handled by immigrants. Without fail. My rental car, the people explaining how to use the Tube, not a one English and often not speaking with an english accent. Even the Uber driver was a Nigerian. Holy shit was /pol/ right?
Nope. I take the car (yes Americans can drive on the left. Your round abouts are more annoying then direction of travel) out in the countryside the diversity disappears. And the anger/fascination begins. There is a combination of "what are you doing here" with genuine fascination with the strange creature. Which says to me it's very rare for Americans to drive afield. Along with anyone else not English. And along the way I am CONSTANTLY assailed with how I viewed the current political situation as an outsider.
So here are my thoughts. Britains TV is a horrifying mixture of American television, british Reality TV shows and advertisements that are without fail interracial. Without fail. Every ad unless aimed at someone over 60 involves an interracial couple. All the BBC channels are mindless trash, with only the American shows offering some perspective. With the Food Network being the only one concerned at all with british culture.
When you drive there are cameras everywhere. When you park there are cameras everywhere. When you use the internet or connect to wifi you are prompted to accept monitoring. But on the roads the moment the cameras disappear everyone starts driving like they do in America and get really mad when you don't. I see Cameras everywhere. Every. Where. I know for a fact this post is being recorded. And everyone here knows they are being watched and they pretend it's not happening. Even as the rebel every chance they get against it.
The TV reflects it. All those interracial ads don't reflect at all on the society I see OUTSIDE of London. Inside London? Oh yes. But those people are insane. The older ones anyway. The older brits in London I had dinner with were absolutely blind to the issues, the younger people used me as some sort of priest, as if venting to an American was somehow safer then daring to talk to a peer. And in the countryside it's like London is some sort of hell. In Cornwall they are building huge housing estates...for white flight. White Londoners are literally doing what White Americans did in the 1970s. Fleeing all the way to lands end.
But even at lands end the cameras are Every. Where. So. Many. Cameras. In Cornwall, the actual west virginia of England. Along with a desire for fair trade fruit, coffee, tea, and cardboard straws. (Cardboard straws suck. Fuck your cardboard straws). Which shows even in the countryside of England there is a desire to do many of the lefty causes...I think? It's hard to say? Is it true belief? Or is it a product or the panoptican?
I am in hell. It was not like this even 10 years ago. There are cameras everywhere in CORNWALL. What has happened to England? I leave the day after tomorrow. I dont think I will come back.
What. The. Fuck.
This country has gone full on schizophrenic. Ititerally has no idea what it is. At all. First of all let's talk the interactions. In London tourists are handled by immigrants. Without fail. My rental car, the people explaining how to use the Tube, not a one English and often not speaking with an english accent. Even the Uber driver was a Nigerian. Holy shit was /pol/ right?
Nope. I take the car (yes Americans can drive on the left. Your round abouts are more annoying then direction of travel) out in the countryside the diversity disappears. And the anger/fascination begins. There is a combination of "what are you doing here" with genuine fascination with the strange creature. Which says to me it's very rare for Americans to drive afield. Along with anyone else not English. And along the way I am CONSTANTLY assailed with how I viewed the current political situation as an outsider.
So here are my thoughts. Britains TV is a horrifying mixture of American television, british Reality TV shows and advertisements that are without fail interracial. Without fail. Every ad unless aimed at someone over 60 involves an interracial couple. All the BBC channels are mindless trash, with only the American shows offering some perspective. With the Food Network being the only one concerned at all with british culture.
When you drive there are cameras everywhere. When you park there are cameras everywhere. When you use the internet or connect to wifi you are prompted to accept monitoring. But on the roads the moment the cameras disappear everyone starts driving like they do in America and get really mad when you don't. I see Cameras everywhere. Every. Where. I know for a fact this post is being recorded. And everyone here knows they are being watched and they pretend it's not happening. Even as the rebel every chance they get against it.
The TV reflects it. All those interracial ads don't reflect at all on the society I see OUTSIDE of London. Inside London? Oh yes. But those people are insane. The older ones anyway. The older brits in London I had dinner with were absolutely blind to the issues, the younger people used me as some sort of priest, as if venting to an American was somehow safer then daring to talk to a peer. And in the countryside it's like London is some sort of hell. In Cornwall they are building huge housing estates...for white flight. White Londoners are literally doing what White Americans did in the 1970s. Fleeing all the way to lands end.
But even at lands end the cameras are Every. Where. So. Many. Cameras. In Cornwall, the actual west virginia of England. Along with a desire for fair trade fruit, coffee, tea, and cardboard straws. (Cardboard straws suck. Fuck your cardboard straws). Which shows even in the countryside of England there is a desire to do many of the lefty causes...I think? It's hard to say? Is it true belief? Or is it a product or the panoptican?
I am in hell. It was not like this even 10 years ago. There are cameras everywhere in CORNWALL. What has happened to England? I leave the day after tomorrow. I dont think I will come back.
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