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Could we English be anymore unpopular in Europe ? ( honest views ) scale of 0 - 5
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Island mentality refers to the notion of isolated communities perceiving themselves as exceptional or superior to the rest of the world. This term does not directly refer to a geographically confined society, but to the cultural, moral, or ideological superiority of a community lacking social exposure. Island mentality can be characterized by narrow-mindedness, ignorance, or outright hostility towards any artifact (concept, ideology, lifestyle choice, art form, etc.) originating from outside the geographic area inhabited by the society.
The term "island mentality" is also used in some psychological research[which?] to describe individuals who dislike or have problems with relating to others, and then live as loners or "islands". This concept (in which people may feel inferior, afraid, or alone) has little to nothing to do with the above terminology. |
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Brazil love waving their flags about as well, and of course, the number 1 flag wavers in the world, USA, USA, USA.
Of course, the United States is a British creation so we have to take some responsilbity for what goes on over there. |
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I like how the yanks do their patriotism. There's usually no nationalism behind it, just a proper love of the country and they encourage newcomers to love it too. Pretty good I reckon.
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What about the Sentilenese?
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lol, you have just posted wikipedia
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I have ibra, that's the definition you asked for
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maybe I should have put it in italics, I would have thought the smoothness of the text would have told you it wasn't me
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I like how the yanks do their patriotism. There's usually no nationalism behind it, just a proper love of the country and they encourage newcomers to love it too. Pretty good I reckon.
Yep agree. No shame flying the flag in the USA my dad flies one outside his house along with double purple heart number plate on his car. As for the multitude of races that live in America it's always African American, Irish American, Italian American etc etc the important word is AMERICAN  |
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Maybe scandi.
No I asked for your definition ? I like what others think from experience rather than the internet. Where have wikipedia ever been trustful organisation, unless you are google. They are run by entirely far left people. ps i get the islander bit to an extent. |
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not sure what you mean by that post denzil.
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ok Ibra fair enough
Island mentality to me is people on an island that carry a very insular mentality where they they feel they are the centre of the world and either need no or very little outside assistance, influences or evolutionary ideas in order to progress because everything they already know and have is substantial enough to survive and thrive without them, islanders see themselves as different from those on the mainland because by simply being on an island it conjures up an inner belief inside them that they are superior to the rest of the world and have a greater survival instinct, and anyone that dares to control/manipulate/take over their way of life, sovereignty and right to self govern is quickly met with hostility. Hence the Brexit vote - "WE'RE OUT"! |
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dan you say a proper love for their country - but really from a young age, kids of America are forced to swear their allegiances to the flag, i.e. minds conditioned from day 1, hence, Donald Trump nationalistic approach and success in the US elections, well it helped anyway.
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Maybe it's the fact we have to stick our hands in our pocket to go and be European whether flying, boat ot tunnel
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Well I prefer that to the sh1t over here. I remember when the Euro's where held here. Brixton council told employees not to have England flags on their desks as it may offend their African colleagues
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Good reply scandi.
I feel that would had been ok before world trade and the internet, I get the more insular examples come from Scotland or say Newcastle. i live 60 miles from the ocean but i dont feel im on an island, try London for an example, no one there thinks they live on an island. As an Island you could expect a country to survive without imports of foods, fish, fruits & farms etc. To self govern seems a given for me, unless like today the elected people only want a part time job  |
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In the last 12 months I’ve been to Greece Spain & Portugal,whenever brexits been mentioned the locals couldn’t give a ****,in fact if anything I’d say they’re understanding of us.i don’t think there’s a great love for the EC especially in Southern Europe.
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To think 40 odd years ago we " joined " to make trading easier with out neighbours, now we want to leave we have to give consessions on things that years ago we would never have dreamed of signing up to in the first place, we are " getting out " or not as it will seem I'm sure in the coming months, the nightmare has only just started.
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1812 the last time an English PM was assassinated.
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scandi babes.. theres another Mob that conditions their kids minds from birth.. aint heard you pipe up about them darling
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Wounded - that would be beyond his understanding
I see they have been 'active' again - this time with sikhs |
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silence is golden scandipuss
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The euros lost their chance of redemption with UK when they messed Cameron about,one humiliation too far.
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Even the Irish Leader is putting the boot in now.
Why the fcuk should the Irish (among many nations screwed over by the Empire) give a damn, apart from their own considerations? |
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A friend of mine spent some time talking to "real" French people when on a holiday there recently. Half said they thought we were very brave and doing the right thing to leave. The other half said we should never have been allowed to join in the first place. None wanted us to stay. It is different in Holland and Belgium that depend on us to counter the dominance of Germany.
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The reactions by the EU leaders and the national leaders have been choreographed apart from the Spanish intervention which apparently upset the Brussels apparatchik that thought it had everyone under control. No doubt the Irish leader has stuck to the script.
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would you ever trust the germans or french - what have the ever done for us?
That's the politicos not the people. they are out to create a euro nation - don't be fooled about this anti national stance - they just want a giant one centrally controlled |
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26 Nov 18 01:18 Joined: 02 Nov 18 | Topic/replies: 461 | Blogger: Baphornet's blog 1812 the last time an English PM was assassinated. Actually he was an Englishman who was a BRITISH PM. Just why are the English unpopular? |
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'Real French people
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Alias: your point?
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Alias
Why the fcuk should the Irish (among many nations screwed over by the Empire) give a damn, apart from their own considerations? That same Empire brought civilisation to most of the world Alias. BTW Torque summed it up nicely, jealousy behind the unpopularity. |
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COULD WE ENGLISH BE ANYMORE UNPOPULAR...
Do we care? And why make this just about the English? On a national level I'd rather be respected (no chance of that now thanks to Theresa May's inept handling of Brexit negotiations) but liked? It's nice but that's all. Of course, on a personal level, when you go abroad it's incumbent on you to obey local laws and observe customs, try and learn some of the language and generally act like a civilized human being. I find that's generally reciprocated wherever you go in the world and any 'national toxicity' gets quickly forgotten about if you're cool |
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they are out to create a euro nation - don't be fooled about this anti national stance - they just want a giant one centrally controlled
This was openly admitted by Ted Heath during an interview with Robin Day who challenged him about joining for trade,Heath said it was always about a European state but had declined to acknowledge this during his campaign to join. Hence the distrust about the EU that has been a running sore for decades.The Labour party were always agin it until Blair saw his chance to become President of Brussels. |
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I can believe that treetop
but I am totally against it We can have mutual trade treaties, mutual peace treaties and mutual defence alliances.... but I believe we need our BORDERS(all countries)...I think it protects us in the long term. Although over time with modern communication and travel, we will become more similar, but don't rush it When we joined we were told it was a COMMON MARKET, we did not read the small print. |
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I hope we are able to continue our scientific co operation as well.
All sorts of co operation, but we keep our BORDERS. |
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When we are finally out, there will be an added inconvenience travelling to and from the EU.
Customs and Passport control. We can make this as efficient as possible with modern technology. But it would always be a minor hassle. But in return we would have control of who comes into this country and what they bring with them. I think it is worth it. |
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Of course people will come here and apply for British citizenship. This would be treated on merit.
They will be accepted or they have to go back where they came from. Of course some of these people come from countries marred by war or with very little economic prospects. But I am sorry we cannot accept them all. It is a sad fact of life. |
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It would make sense we apply the same rules to NON EU people as well.
In an emergency we may accept a few more than we otherwise would on compassionate grounds. But we must know who these people are...it will be controlled. |
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As the UK has never signed up to the Schengen agreement, we have always had to show passports on arrival in another EU country and on return to UK so I don't see what will change until you want to go from one Schengen country to another when of course it might but if they don't have border controls between themselves, I don't think it will. I travelled by bus from Spain to Portugal in March and although their was a border point, the bus did not stop. Similarly we were on a Danube cruise in August that went from the Black Sea to Budapest passing through several countries. The only time that passports were checked was between Romania and Serbia (not in EU) and that applied to all EU residents.
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