ParanoidObsessive posted... OHJOY90 posted...
Yeah, but that's mostly a class thing. Lower Class Hating the Upper/Middle Class and visa versa. Not to mention the North/South Divide
Nah, I mean more that I've noticed a definite trend with British people under 30 or so where they all seem a bit self-loathing, culturally speaking. Like they'll be the first people to make jokes about all the terrible shit the Empire did, or act sort of embarrassed by the entire concept of national patriotism, or just downplaying their own heritage.
Not shitting on other members of their own cohort (in, say, the way people in the Northeast US will shit on people from the South), but literally shitting on their own cohort.
Sort of similar to how you see a lot of younger Americans who were pretty much raised by the Internet acting like they're embarrassed to be Americans.
That is true, there is a lot of self loathing in England, and Wales too actually. Reminds me of a joke about a book coming out called Crap Towns, and they had to make a sequel; Crap Towns II because so many people wrote in and complained that their town wasn't included in the first one.