Why does everyone hate us so much ?!

[englandd]

I’m talking about being English, spent alot of time on the cesspit that is Reddit this World Cup and the vast majority absolutely hate England, I known it stems from the British empire but as far as I’m aware it wasn’t just England who were bad back then was it ? I mean Spain and Portugal took a big part in colonialism too but why is it just the English that gets the hate ?
Last night I would’ve been genuinely happy to support Norway if they went through, I can’t imagine hating another nation so badly. Maybe I shouldn’t take it personally 😆

Aibu ? Do we deserve the hate we get from something that happened hundreds of years ago ? For what it’s worth the British empire were ruthless and I don’t celebrate anything they did, but I also don’t think we should be punished still for something that happened so so long ago.

Have you any idea how German tourists in Mallorca behave?

(some German tourists like some ‘English’, actually British, tourists)

Many many reason....brits abroad - awful
English football hooligans - disgusting
Brexit - racist idiots
Tommy Robinson et Al - racist scumbags
And finally... colonisation

I think Polish, Dutch and French football thugs are as bad if not worse.

🤣 love at the ignorance comment. Today i am a racist and an ignorant. You got to love it 🤣🤣🤣

read my post and you ll understand what I said or do you just contribute without reading? Just asking

Have you ever actually lived in England?
Where are the roots of your hatred and misinformation?

Pre dc, dh and I always avoided the 2 weeks in summer when the Scots went on holiday because their behaviour was mostly appalling.

Oh major lol..... absolutely no one thinks that 🙄🤣🤣🤣

Glad you love my comments.
thank you Bubbles

In which country do you live?

Try being South African. I will leave you with that thought 😋

Erm
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I think you think you have pricked this balloon of delusion for us English that the Irish viewpoint 'is' the viewpoint of the rest of the world but having Scandinavian family and having an insight from family who have worked all over the world and travelled extensively I don't think this is true at all. My Danish family say that the English sense of humour is very much liked and is familiar to them. We were watching the match with Norwegian friends last night. I am surprised about the hate feom the Finnish remarked upon on this thread as my Finnish friends don't show that at all and they are very direct. The reality is in London or SE England it is so muticultural and diverse much more so than Ireland that these rivalries would be ridiculous as reflected by the make up of the English team as opposed to the Scottish team for example.

No doubt Scotland….

Ireland 😊

You could…you know…just stop tagging me…or perhaps read and understand my posts. Either way 👍

You too. Others are tagging you carry on with them.

I was hoping Norway would win, and Mexico before that, because of my workplace.

I'm already bracing myself for another day of getting the fake shock that I didn't watch the match. Last time I tried to say as neutrally as possible that I just don't have an interest in football, I got speeches about needing to learn the joy of coming together for English football. I've had speeches before that on needing patriotism. We had a region wide meeting last week that we were told was mandatory, and over half of it was spent on doing some sort of sweepstake draw where each site became associated with a remaining team. I get urgently marked emails that are just updates on the World Cup and how well England is doing. I don't want to piss on other people's fun, but it does get tiresome.

It is an English quirk I've noticed - the media and wider culture gets really focused and obsessed on something to the point it's difficult to escape if not a hermit and it can be treated as personal slight against those who do like it to not get involved. There is a strange idea that we either love it or hate England - there are many other options.

And many also emigrated to England strange that?

And people still immigrate to the US in far larger numbers even with immigrants and those presumed to be immigrants getting shot. Saudi Arabia gets a lot of immigrants too.

Most people do not migrate to a place because it's the best of the best - marriage, family, or money are often the main factors and being slightly better and having a route to do so can be enough.

Maybe they boast about it in front of you as you insist on calling a game that invented, 'soccer'.

Soccer comes from the English. The name was invented in Oxford and Brits called it both football and soccer for decades until the 1960ish when it became seen as 'too American' to use over here with rising anti-American sentiments.

I’ve tried speaking local languages when on holiday. But people just laugh at me and tell me to ‘just speak English, it’s easier.’
Do you mean we should all be fluent before we travel anywhere?

Also - high taxes - to soon be more high taxes.

What "irony" do we not get exactly?

I’ve been replying to you! It’s how forums work.

Just let’s give up.

Im taking the teens on a CV drop to all the local cafes so I have deeply shite fish to fry already.

Yes and the signs put up were "no blacks, no dogs, no Irish".

IBut they will appreciate the fact you make an effort to speak their language.
It's the trying that matters, not the fluency.

It's the Internet. You can find support for any point of view. You just need to change your algorithms by searching "Lovely English..." Don't get distracted by anything which isn't positive.

I'd rather you answered my question. Please don't patronise me either. That's a disagreeable trait in any nationality.