The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.
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