To find most threads about Brits tedious and stereotyped?

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I just roll my eyes every time I see another one about "Brits" or "the Brits" because they're just so painfully stereotyped and usually based on this one person the OP has met who did this one thing that they've decided is a "British thing".
AIBU?

I think Brits are every bit as guilty of stereotyping other nationalities, frankly. Americans especially. And lets not even go there when it comes to stereotypes of other cultures.

So yep, nothing really to see here. It seems to be part of the human condition.

And you think stereotyping more people will end the cycle? Not sure I'm seeing the logic here.

We are just as guilty but complain when lazy cliches are directed at us.
The germans are humourless and authoritarian, french ignorant, italians and spanish lazy - all stereotypes the press and fellow Brits in the UK continue to go along with.
And I don't think it's painfully stereotypical that a vocal minority of brits are drunkenly obnoxious home and abroad. We've seen it with our own eyes. It's reality but as is the British way if we ignore and deny it, it never happened and things never change for the better.

Sadly the reality in too many cases. Hence my desire to not be recognised as from these shores when abroad, and pleasure when someone is surprised where I come from.

When it comes to many of the bad traits, sadly it is all from these shores, not just English people.

Is complaining about people complaing about Brits a British thing?

No. Stereotyping is never a good thing. But your OP seems to imply that we Brits are the only victims of it. We're not.

Civilised as we like to think we are, our innate tribalism is there deep down in us all. Some of us try to fight it more than others. But it's not something that will fully go away in our lifetimes.

Where are these threads?

Agree SaraClara.The thread about Australia was bloody shocking and I was so ashamed to be British!!

Tbh read reddit r/casualuk and every stereotype will be confirmed. I don't know why I follow, it enrages me. I really hate the UK tendancy to make awful, bad taste jokes about everything. Stupid glib superficial idiots, drives me insane.

Yes I agree. The thread about British kids yesterday was a good example. E.g. all the comparisons with French/every other decade in British history’s amazingly well behaved kids.

Yanbu it’s relentless and tedious

Agree.

I travel extensively for one of my jobs. They know I'm British because I'm not ashamed to say it and I don't know why I should be. I'm always treated well and people want to chat with me. In my experience the British aren't judged to be any worse than any other nationalities who all have their little foibles.
And to be honest, if anyone said that they were surprised that I was British because I was nice and/or well-behaved, I'd think them very rude.

Same Brit’s stereotype Americans, Australians etc on mumsnet.

Yanbu

I think Britain is probably the most tolerant country in the world.

We are such a diverse country and rub along quite nicely but there are some tedious posters who like to bad mouth Brits whilst assuring us that they are not like that - even though they're Brits.

And I think on the whole most places are child friendly and our kids and teens are marvellous.

Sadly the reality in too many cases. Hence my desire to not be recognised as from these shores when abroad, and pleasure when someone is surprised where I come from

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You mean like every single expression or tradition that MN disagrees with is an "americanism"?

Yes I didn't want to make it a TAAT as there have been a handful of similar threads about "the British" this week, but I was particularly horrified at that one, especially the amount of people who gleefully fetishised child rearing in countries based on their vast experience of a 2 week summer holiday and a book about France written by an American woman who lived in France for a bit then wrote a book about it which actual French people have said doesn't tell the whole story.
It was surprising to me that some people seemed almost masochistic in their denigration of their own people. And that's the difference, I think. In other countries, it's outsiders doing it. In the UK, I see people from here doing it along with people who are not from the UK.

Where you on another thread saying you always spoke French when abroad to.further distance yourself ,from.the dreadful place that.us Britain🤔

@Gracewithoutend that's my experience of travelling extensively for work and living abroad in various countries. Literally no one has ever been surprised I'm British based on some odd characteristics (although in California people were surprised because my accent sounded Australian to them).
@BeatriceBatchelor that's exactly it, it's sad to see British people badmouthing Britain the second a foreigner comes along to say "I saw a British person crossing the road today without waiting for the red light, AIBU to think the Brits all jaywalk?" and everyone will be like, "Yes it's terrible." "I will not cross the road because I'd never want to inconvenience car drivers like that." "YANBU OP Brits are so rude crossing the road, I went to Italy once on holiday and no one crossed the road so I don't see why Brits do it so often."

I've been on mumsnet years, that thread did NOT bring out the best in people. It was horrible I've decided hopefully it didn't represent most people.

It does suck, but it's not as bad as the awful twee brit abbreviations like lippie, sarnie, lecci, etc

I find the British superiority thing really annoying.

I've just read the most bonkers article about an elderly British lady who 'cried' at the end of her holiday in Benidorm as it was full of 'rude' Spaniards!

British people seem to enjoy measuring other people's according to their own yardstick... the thread about French children was a case in point. Lots of comments about French parents being cruel and being intolerant .

Utter xenophobia. It's like the brits are the yardstick by which other nations should be measured against.

And there we have it you are nicely proving the Ops point🙄

Its not the same all.over the country though is it I read lippy,and Leccy,in a scouse accent
And I would never call my sandwiches Sarnies,to my they are Butties,so.its not a British thing more a local thing