Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsoutpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsinpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspost00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: "Glenallan" Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.welsh,soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan References: <52210046.0401022313.78f63f4b@posting.google.com> <3ff6911a$0$9393$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com> <3ff6bd80@news.greennet.net> Subject: Re: Why do British hate american culture? Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:00:13 -0000 Organization: Xanadu X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3ff97af6$0$2771$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 Jan 2004 14:55:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81-86-238-161.dsl.pipex.com X-Trace: 1073314550 news.dial.pipex.com 2771 81.86.238.161:1688 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9724 "ZsaZsa" wrote in message news:RrXJb.137407$INs.61182@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... > > "Duke of URL" wrote in message > news:vvdmkdhhaqn053@corp.supernews.com... > > Envy - they still long for the days when Britain was really important > > and had an Empire. It aggravates them that we have the freedom, > > prosperity and living conditions they don't. > > > > Brits are free to go to Cuba if they want. You don't have the freedom to > live elsewhere without paying US income tax. > > BTW, the living conditions and level of prosperity you have described in > your own personal circumstances would aggravate me indeed, if I thought that > any of my relatives would be reduced to it. I am afraid that last remark is > going to come off differently than I intend it. I do have sympathy for your > situation, and it's not a standard I would aspire to for my loved ones. --------- To be perfectly frank, I was startled into disbelief when I first came across the rustic wooden homes of the people of New England. Invariably they badly need repainted. Street lighting, roads, and pavements (where they exist) are frankly appalling. All of this quite unacceptable in the UK I was quite unprepared for this disenchantment and returned to the UK with a new respect for the British way of life. Many things, not all of course are indeed 'just better' over here. I was haunted by one lady who was possessed of disbelief that we had fridges, washing machines, telephones and the same Japanese cars as they had. She was further confounded when I explained the virtues of socialised medical policies. The poor soul, who had a disabled relative was almost broke. I met young people who had NO medical insurance. No....the USA is not a perfect society. G --