What do other nationalities think of the British

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For non UK MNers, what are your general impressions of the British?

I was watching a documentary recently and a Spanish man said our houses are all dirty. I'd never heard that before but can see why someone might think that with muddy weather etc etc.

What do you think about us? Promise I won't be offended (no racism/sexism/general bigotry though please). Can't vouch for others though.

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“Everyone knows about... argh I can’t remember his name now”

Her daughters are waiting to see him fly into next week...

[quote Tollergirl]@dolphinpose - absolutely!!

Still find it so interesting that so few posters have said where they live. Obviously they are in that country, what's it called, you know the one where

• Everyone is slim and beautiful with perfect teeth
• Everyone lives in immaculate homes
• Everyone eats top quality and freshly grown food for every meal
• The health and education systems are exemplary with no one ever having a less than perfect experience of school or hospital care
• All the towns and villages are exciting and cosmopolitan with affordable housing for all

These perfect countries also have no history of violence or occupation of other territories, no dark times in their past and are currently run by leaders of outstanding moral character.

Strange then that they have managed to raise so many judgemental people ..[/quote]
Exactly

40 pages, amen

Re: weight.
It's so much better in here where every body shape is accepted. In some countries girls/adult women are on diets to look slim because their boyfriends/husbands want them to look like models. Those men, on the hand, don't look like models and often would have a bear belly. Yet, they want a slim partner.

@Fink you just described be to a T!
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Other than any kind of racism/ anti EU as I am very pro diversity.

Obsessed with class - even the supermarkets have a class level
Small Cluttered houses - even the average 3 bed houses seem very small
Like to queue
Think themselves better than the rest of Europe and don’t think of themselves as European
Obsessed with holidays -even in a pandemic everyone was very worried about their holiday.
Thankful they don’t live in Britain currently with the response to covid and brexit.
Old fashioned school uniform look like children from 1940s - why not make them comfy, colourful and modern?

I wish posters would stop criticising the size of houses. Housing is expensive in Britain. Do people really think that anyone would deliberately choose to live in a small house if they could afford somewhere more spacious?

Exactly, really expensive in the SE.

Re. bread, my experience is that decent bread is available in England (haven't lived anywhere else in UK) but costs a bomb from artisan bakeries. Similar quality bread in France is literally a quarter of the price.

@giantangryrooster

I can only speak for my scandic country but here babies nap out side year round, even in kindergarten, it's considered healthy. (As a first time mum it was bloody hard knowing how to dress dc not too hot or cold in the midst of winter).

Re. Bathroom carpets, it's hard to forget once seen , admittedly it was a long time ago, but eww .

Napping outside was very much the norm in the England too in past generations, as was leaving children in prams outside shops while going shopping. My grandparents did it, my parents didn't. It isn't as a previous poster due to danger from people as still the majority of the UK live in houses with private gardens. It is due to medical advice that babies should not be in damp, cold conditions.

Both are no longer considered good practice in England now. Leaving a baby outside would be considered very old fashioned.

I’m 35 and British and leave baby outside to nap in the garden in winter as long as it’s not raining

Saying "im british" sounds wrong to my ear. Do people really say that? I mean, not "im english" or "im welsh".

Ask the Incas on their opinion of the Spanish don't think they like what they did. In fact every country in world have a history which they are ashamed of
Much of the problem in S America and What's now the US was the import of diseases which native peoples had no immunity to - even colds and flu. The native populations were seriously reduced very quickly. Franciscan missions thought to have resulted wiping out. A third of native pop.

@OwlOne I actually thought that as I posted

I started writing that I’m English but wondered if it made any difference being English to being from anywhere else in the British isles so changed it

If I fill out forms I am British

The whole thread is about ‘’ the British’’ too as per the title so it makes sense

I visited some American friends in Texas in the early 2000s. They had deep pile carpet in their bathroom. I’m not daft enough to think that this means all Americans have carpeted bathrooms

@Onedropbeat that explains it very well! Thank you.

@VenusClapTrap

I visited some American friends in Texas in the early 2000s. They had deep pile carpet in their bathroom. I’m not daft enough to think that this means all Americans have carpeted bathrooms

Carpet in the bathroom in the US was probably a 1970's thing

This is what most bathrooms look like since a lot of homes are slightly old: retrorenovation.com

@OwlOne

Saying "im british" sounds wrong to my ear. Do people really say that? I mean, not "im english" or "im welsh".

I guess it's no difference than saying I am American. But I can not imagine someone who is Canadian saying that or Mexican. They are American too since they live on North America continent.

Oh and yes I know Great Britain is not a continent of its own. That it is part of Europe.

Ironically the majority of Brits wouldn’t DARE sit down and make a (generally negative) list of all the things they don’t like about the people of another country. They wouldn’t dare! Imagine if someone on here wrote “Germans are humourless, rigid, punctual to the point of it being rude, and their food is heavy and stodgy and the women are large and blonde with big hips.” And thats before you even take a jibe at the history. It’s rude, it’s pointless, outdated, stereotyping. Its judgemental, inaccurate and just plain silly.
And an awful lot of people from other places in Europe live and work in London..they really can’t hate our bread, carpets, and women with thin stringy hair that much.

Many parents take their babies for a walk daily anyway where most babies fall asleep once you start moving. Don't see an issue with napping outside. It's even safer than just leaving them on their own.

Music! Great musicians, fabulous creative everything - art, cinema, television, fashion. I'm Canadian and now live in the UK, and that was my perception before moving here. Still is, I think the creative industry is amazing.