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Anyone here from the UK?
a pack of wolves:
Drinking and skiing? That sounds like really typical tourist behaviour.
The nastiest anti-tourist sentiment I ever came across was in Cornwall though. Someone had fallen off the pier at low tide and tied. The reaction of some passing locals was to laugh and say "plenty more where that came from".
Sox:
I think it might be tied to the accent. The 'proper' English accent does come across itself as charming and inoffensive. In other parts of England, the accent might sound angry, naive, obnoxious or any number of undesirable traits. Less to do with the fact you're English, more to do with how they perceive you because of the way you speak?
a pack of wolves:
It's all about the connotations the accent has for people really. Like most prejudices it will tend to come out the most in the places where people are poorest and therefore angriest, or where there are for example historical reasons for the animosity that still resonate. For example, I have an accent that doesn't fit with the area I grew up in, I'm routinely mistaken for being either very middle class or Southern. In a lot of areas this doesn't matter, but if I'm on a council estate then it can cause problems. The reason is that my voice has associations for some people with wealth and therefore power, and the same goes for my English accent in certain areas of Scotland. If you encounter people who feel powerless then prejudices will come out, covering up what's really going on: "I feel I have no power and I resent the fact that, in my perception, you do."
öde:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 06 May 2008, 15:24 ---Drinking and skiing? That sounds like really typical tourist behaviour.
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Skiing is always necessary and I was sampling the local real ale that was on tap (this is more exciting when you consider what's served around here).
Scottish people have always been really nice to me, even in the less pleasant parts of Glasgow.
Tom:
Tommy, did you ever stop tyo think they're only l;ooking after you so they can happily sacrifice a happy/content Dski to their evil or just operating-under-a different-moral-code pagan god?
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