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.

With regard to the football, in comparison to many countries, I think we play in a very fair way, team players always support one another (not the case where I am this world cup) plus they’re gracious losers and don’t deliberately foul the way many other countries do

Interesting. Do you hear anyone say anything generally?

What is the ‘attitude of superiority’ a few posters have mentioned ?

Why do people think ‘the English’ think they’re superior?

When have you ever heard English people raving about our housing quality, or think our culture is superior?

Where is this idea of English arrogance coming from?

One in five though...

I'm sure that's true for some people. But it goes beyond just football. There's always the comments about how we all apparently have bad teeth, all ugly, shit food, etc. Or just outright "ugh I hate the British." That's when there's no world cup on. Now, imagine saying that about other countries and it not being piled on and called racist/xenophobic.

I'm surprised she hasn't mentioned Fawlty Towers. I think she's been there for her holidays.

Yeah ive literally never heard an English person wax lyrical about the state of our housing or streets 😂 Is it our faces? Do we just have resting arrogant face or something? 😅

You’re going to have to explain that question

Jealousy. Despite the cost of living and failing infrastructure, we’re still classed as a good place to live on the whole, and many of us are proud of our country. Some interpret this as arrogance because we refuse to roll over and self loathe. I think we’re pretty thick skinned too. Name calling and hatred directed at us goes over our heads, because we’re comfortable in our ‘skin’ and don’t need affirmation from anyone. The colonialism issue is pretty much irrelevant to the majority of us. It’s something which was not done in our name so why should we be made to feel guilty about it 🤷‍♀️

I'm Welsh, and we regularly see contempt from (not all!) English people about our language, culture, bilingual road signs... not forgetting the 'jokes' that we should be laughing with them about, instead of taking them as the insults that they are. Oh, and the fact that we should be 'grateful' that they're coming here and buying holiday homes in communities where young people can't even dream of getting a foot on the property ladder, because they're 'spending their money here'. (Most get Tesco and Waitrose deliveries btw.) And the historical colonisation, of course. So, support for English teams on this side of the border is a bit thin on the ground.

You hate the English, most other countries do not.
i have lived around the world. Everyone was welcoming and friendly apart from one country- Scotland.

Well, we colonised America and they seem to love us!

:) Look, I do appreciate that English are known for diplomatic skills, but your response is a perfect example of assuming that others are so thick that unless you actually say something to them they will never know what is it that you are actually thinking...
Again - I don't want to generalize, it's a difficult topic, so many people I know here are nothing like I described above, but I am just sharing what people back home comfortably share with me when asking - how can you live there, it's awful, I could never and so on...
I personally think there are much more positives about England, I am still here and I like it...

I think you may have misunderstood US history.

Absolutely. The difference in last nights match between England and Norway, and a lot of the other third rate teams, and the South American ones was huge. We’re civilised. Many other countries are very uncivilised, and almost feral in their approach.

I went to a lot of the women’s rugby World Cup matches and not a single English fan was cheering for the home nations, they all backed the opposition. So I think that’s got something to do with it.

It's true that other countries colonised, but Britain had by far the biggest empire.

Perhaps the haters on Reddit should remember that the British ended slavery!

Also Ireland ran an ad campaign that had a ABE undertone, It was funny and not intended to cause upset, All English people I know in Ireland found it funny but I do question do we have always throw out this stereotypical tiresome anti English sentiment and Harry Kanes father is Irish, so it’s a bit hypocritical.

Well maybe you could stop sending your young people to our capital and forcing Londoners to move out of their beautiful city

I think it's some people being carried along by the Russian/right wing campaign to destabilise the UK and spread hate generally. You see threads from those guys on here from time to time.

How so? We did colonise them. And yes, they kicked us out, lol. I didn't mean that they are still a colony!

I hate the English?! I think you’ve misread my post 🤣

Yes, a much higher percentage of the population than English lager louts or colonisers, yet we’re all tarred with the same brush.

OP - you are on Reddit. It is not exactly a place for nuance so it is not representative of the population at large. Aside from the empire issue (and I take your point re other empires) I think it is largely the behaviour of English fans that go before them. This seems to have improved at bit but a lot of people have experienced the violence, boorishness and ignorance of English and are understandably a bit vary. As a result they are unlikely to favour England in "neutral" circumstances.

I think it's this - and often they are unaware of Scots or Welsh - and that other countries had empires.

I saw one a fairly big you tuber blaming europeans for colonising USA -and stealing the land from in US natives - they played a big role - but completely ignored he was of European descent sitting on the stolen land and his government being one who didn't honour treates with native tribes and still doesn't.