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.

So You aren’t going to respond to anything I have actually said? And I don’t know why you are making sarcastic faces at me, you have no idea who I support or my ancestry, lots of assumptions from you.

And that is probably because none of the other British countries received the same hatred as England. No one is saying all the things you said about Wales and blaming the Welsh team. However, my husband who supports England also supported Scotland, and would have supported Wales and Ireland had they qualified. He also supports them during the rugby too and any golfers who qualify for tournaments.

Also, this thread wasn’t about supporting during football, if you read OPs posts it’s about other people hating on England which extends way past football and we all know that to be true.

Probably because it’s a moot point as you rarely get past the group stages.

How very xenophobic. Half of English people are thick and proud of it? Speak for yourself!

It was invented in England, it's disputed by one person that doesn't make it fact.

To be honest, the Scots made a huge impression on the people of the US, particularly Boston, where they drank the city dry, put cones on all the statues, marched around en masse in kilts, sang their way through nine innings of a baseball game, serenaded their neighbours with bagpipes at the crack of silly o'clock, and made friends left, right, and centre. The Mayor of Boston has started the process of twinning with Glasgow.

Where the heck are you holidaying? Speak for yourself.

I agree. How diverse is the Scottish team.

Let’s not forget that we were colonised by the French. They have kindly sent over the Bayeux Tapestry to remind us. Oh, and the Romans. And the Vikings behaved appallingly .

I don’t think it’s everyone that hates the English. I think it’s Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and we don’t hate the English people we hate the English media for making us endure the endless team talk, even on nights that England are not playing.

I’d assume a team is picked on their capabilities, not their skin colour 🤦‍♀️

So based on your anecdoral exoeeience of English people holidaying in some random Holiday destination you have deduced
Half of English people are thick and proud?
That doesnt make you sound all that bright yourself

I think this is the crux, really.

Nobody except the English gives the English all
that much thought.

But here we are on a thread where England is positioned as the victim, with every possible answer to the OP’s question deflected away as racism or hatred or xenophobia or lack of understanding of your ‘famous’ 🤨 sense of humour.

Not one iota of self-awareness or insight or ‘huh, I never thought of that’.

Who doesn't? Honestly, you're talking out of your arse. You should correct that you don't like the English team.

@englandd

Point of information

The British Empire was not hundreds of years ago.
I think the last colony to be given independence was Zimbabwe in 1980.
Most gained independence in the post WW2 period

Maybe a country 10% of the size of England just doesn’t have quite the diversity of population 🤷‍♀️

No one thinks about England at all, yet here we are on a 36 page thread discussing everything that’s bad about us. Including getting sunburnt and some song lyrics.

Started by an English person. We didn’t start the conversation!

Then irony. And yes it was invented and codified in England, there is zero question about this.

Not every single ball game was, but nobody other than obnoxious prats trying to twist a fallacious excuse to complain suggest that is thr case.

English press talk about and focus on England, what a shock. You should read the European countries that are in their native languages, rarely any different at all.

Racists exist in all countries, focusing on unfortunate racists who are a minority when most of world football has vastly worse major racism problems across those countries is scraping the barrel.

Not naming the player makes it difficult, when most examples of that chant are about people who did do something.

It's a helpful comment though, shows the answer is that there is no reason, just made up narratives people use to justify hatred because that is who they are and want to be.

I do think that footballs coming home anthem.wasa big mistake but to be fair they didnt write it ! I think youll be find that Brazil fans wont be supporting Argentina theyd probably rather have England !

Weird so many have a list of things they hate about a place they never think about.

I remember when the Scots came to Paris in 98 when I was living there at the time, the year France won it and everyone loved them. When they were asked to lift their kilts they obliged!

That song isn't about confidence at all. It's about knowing we're only going to go so far without winning, and that it's nice to dream that we will. You can tell you've only ever listened to the chorus.

You should really question if you are choosing the right holiday destination, if that is what you are seeing, because I can tell you honestly, that over the past thirty five years my wife and I have been going on holiday, we haven't seen these red tattooed English people wandering around arrogantly. Mind you, I suppose that is because we don't do package holidays or go to European beach resorts like Magaluf or Ibiza, we tend to go to Burgundy, Cannes, Nice, Salzburg, Vienna, Colmar or Brittany, which strangely seem to be devoid of hordes of drunken, rude, arrogant Engerlanders. I wonder why that is?

Another smug confidently wrong person who's never actually listened to the song.