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OHJOY90 posted...

Yeah, but that's mostly a class thing. Lower Class Hating the Upper/Middle Class and visa versa. Not to mention the North/South Divide

Nah, I mean more that I've noticed a definite trend with British people under 30 or so where they all seem a bit self-loathing, culturally speaking. Like they'll be the first people to make jokes about all the terrible shit the Empire did, or act sort of embarrassed by the entire concept of national patriotism, or just downplaying their own heritage.

Not shitting on other members of their own cohort (in, say, the way people in the Northeast US will shit on people from the South), but literally shitting on their own cohort.

Sort of similar to how you see a lot of younger Americans who were pretty much raised by the Internet acting like they're embarrassed to be Americans.



grimhilde00 posted...

/r/shitamericanssay right there

Hey, if we're still calling people whose ancestors came over 200+ years ago African-Americans, then I get to talk about the places my ancestors came from only a hundred or so years ago.

And that's not even getting into the fact that the French are still named after the Franks who haven't really existed for more than a thousand years. Or that Germany is named after a tribe that hasn't been around for closer to two thousand (in spite of the fact that almost no "Germans" are even descended from that specific tribe in the first place).

If there's one thing humans are REALLY good at, it's hanging on to shit that's long since passed.