I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies.
The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
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