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.

That’s amazing!
A sample size of six men in a pub has settled an entire nation's character.

I'm sure the Spanish, Norwegian and Scottish crowds were all perfectly behaved saints.

And there we go again.

I'm Irish, you're not. I've travelled extensively and noted the reaction every single time the other person has clocked the Irish accent. We've also travelled with an English person and it became a running joke how the free drinks were always thrusted upon us.

Yet here you are EXPLAINING to me how I've been received on the basis of being Irish.

I think it’s to do with English people’s behaviour when they’re in other countries.
Some football fans, holiday makers etc behaving obnoxiously and as a nation is not really even trying to learn other’s languages and assuming people will just bend to accommodate us.

The English 👍

Also want to say British have so much self hate, they think they are being fair but if you don’t like yourself, no one is going to like you.

On the contrary, Germans are respected.

Bigots gonna bigot.

And bigots make the most noise on social media.

I think this is very true.

English tourists are usually very respectful in my country, India. But Indians, despite liking those tourists, don’t like England because of past empire. They feel anger for how Indians were treated back then.

Umm I live in Spain. It’s not particularly strange - probably because the Spanish don’t behave like utter pigs when drinking in pubs .…plenty of kids running around. You can take Spanish kids to pubs because they’re generally not confronted with arseholes. Unless there’s a tournament and the guiris turn up.

I had a very nasty comment from another poster when I dared to write something on Pedants’ corner. The poster scoffed with disbelief that an Irish person could have an opinion on how English was written. The clear implication was that I should get back to my bog.

It was quite horrible.

Well maybe because you're not talking in Scottish, Welsh or Irish accents?

That’s certainly true — reading Mn, you would think the UK was enduring some kind of end of days dystopian nightmare and failed state, rather than being a perfectly nice country/group of countries with an astonishing literary tradition (and the world’s best capital in London), albeit currently going through a bit of a dip.

The ‘sudden emigration’ threads of late on here blow my mind. Not ‘I’m dying to go and live in Country X because I’ve spent time there, speak the language and think it’s somewhere I could be happy’, but ‘This country is shit and a failed state — what other country will let me in?’

Pigs and gammon? You're really coming across as quite enraged. I think I will be cheering on France next Tuesday.

I have a friend who is from one of the other home nations, when I said that I would be rooting for her home country against a European nation, she was very surprised when I explained that I would always support any of the home nations against anyone other than England. She seemed to think being English I hated her nation (sports related).
Do the other home nations assume the same?

This and the way Brits abroad cause so many problems.

Did you see how Mexicans behave towards England football team?

The Troubles didn’t just involve the IRA bombing England….

Are you Spanish? Or an immigrant from the UK?
I lived in Spain for a long time and the Spanish are not perfect at all, including some of their behaviour when out and about.

people don't hate the English anyway

Cocky Jogger is not Spanish.
Poor Soain having someone like that moving there.

The 6 counties in the north still do not have independence

Or how the Mexicans were to all their opponents?
Or how vile Paraguay were to the French team?

It’s weird to move to another country and despise your own people whilst being blind to those around you. I love the Spanish but they have their faults and that is okay, we all do. To be on this thread perpetuating the same crap about the English which isn’t always true is bizarre. I never saw that sort of Brit/English behaviour in Spain and we knew a fair few British people because of the company my husband was working for had a lot of English people. I reckon he/she doesn’t live in Spain at all to be honest.

Or how the Morrocan fans attacked police

Can you name one?
We have the most diverse team. Where are all the racist thugs?
Can you show me evidence of one problem caused by English Supporters abroad? During this World Cup?
I would pipe down as you are showing yourself as a common racist.