What's the best thing about your country?

I think the best thing about the UK is our insistence on doing what the fuck we want, despite the best efforts of our government to stop us. I find it hard to believe there's any other country where the populace have such a widespread disdain for the law coupled with such a wilful self-destructive streak as in England.

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

And Einstein was born in Germany, but he sort of shifted allegiances, if you know what I mean.

But he was still German. I don't think anyone's ever described Albert Einstein as anything else.

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

The best thing about America? Diversity. This is the one country that will openly accept anybody (even the Jews), and the resulting homogenizing culture is kickin rad.

But the impression one gets as a foreigner is that in America every racial group sticks to themselves and rather than a homogenized culture, you have a bunch of different people living in racial ghettos across the country.

I think what sums up for me the complete lack of homogenity (Is that a word?) in America is that if you ask any American what race they are they'll spout off this fuck off great long list of Irish, Italian, Spanish, Afrikaans and an 8th Eskimo but none of them would ever tell you they were an American. In England, as with most of Western Europe we have genuine cultural mixing in that our culture has influences from all over the world, we have a huge range of ethnic diversity and yet the majority of people you asked, be they originally of Saxon, Viking, Norman, Indian, Chinese, African or what ever the fuck origin, had they been norn in Britain would call themselves British if asked.

I'm not trying to criticise America here, just interested that you tout racial diversity as the best thing about a country perceived elsewhere in the world as rather a segregated and frankly racist one.

There's nowhere I can't reach.