31 Britons Share Their Honest Opinions About Their Native Country, From Weather To Soccer

That's a rather biased and limited view. It's those claiming that they *have* to come to the UK to be safe, when in reality they've passed through several perfectly safe EU countries on their way. They come here for the absurdly generous benefit culture and the NHS.

This is, for me, just not true. A lot of people have no problem with refugees and Britain welcoming them. However, a great deal of people have a problem with economic migrants who lie about their nationality to claim asylum when they are from a safe but poor country. People also have a problem with adult men who claim to be under 18, when they are not. Child refugees deserve a safe place to live, to be fed and educated. There are many families that agree to foster them which is wonderful and selfless. But there have been stories of social workers turning up to these foster families homes with male children who appear older than 18. One I remember, the family complained that their 15 daughter was propositioned and didn't feel safe around the refugee. He also spent most evenings smoking and drinking, then eventually stopped attending school. One day he just left the foster home, never to return. So I think that most people have compassion for genuine refugees.

Whenever I hear the English complaining about people coming to their country and changing their culture I just laugh and laugh and laugh.

Not to forget that the UK is a HUGE arms dealer. We sell the arms that make people homeless and then demonise the same people for coming to us. It's f****d up, too many Brits still think they're masters in an empire.

Rate of domestic violence goes up - even when the home team wins.

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I’m a huge football fan (Manchester U tied for those who care), and my team is going through such a bad time lately that when my team loses, all I do now is roll my eyes, tut and move on. Although in British culture, tutting is very bad.

Here in Australia soccer (I will always call it soccer as we already had football before soccer became popular here) fans are by far the worst behaved of the sports. There are often flares set off and brawling.

I am a life-long University of Michigan (American) football fan. I don't want them to lose, but if they do I just avoid the news for a couple days and move on... I can tease and joke with Michigan State fans (most people I know are), but Ohio State fans never seem to just find joy in sports - I haven't met one yet that wasn't incredibly rude and/or hostile over a game.

Brexit was advertised with "350 Million for our NHS" and the uber-patriots jumped at it, but when during Covid every f**k who knew a Tory got a contract for masks and delivered just horseshit, but STILL got sometimes hundreds of millions out of the NHS budget, they were (and are) nice and quiet.

The nhs is underfunded in part due to more people (patients) using it, which obviously immigration doesn’t help. I’d bet that nowadays however, the majority of people employed by the nhs from cleaners right up to consultants are non British, so the nhs really does show the positives and negatives of immigration in equal measure.

People blame immigration but it is the government who haven't invested in the services and infrastructure to cope with the increased demand.

I have found the same shift in Australia. We used to get most of our media etc from the UK but now it is mostly from the US.

American culture pervades most countries of the world. There was a US movie called 'Everybody's All American'

It's very hard to spot prejudice when it's not aimed at YOU..

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I mean, there's roughly 180 "other countries", so yes, you'll always find some that are worse. Let's stay within Europe. That doesn't make us look too bad, but also not very good either. Especially as currently too many are going right wing because (honestly, no idea why? Getting their Empire back? Make Britain Great Again? )

It should be the Archers (radio show) theme. We can all sing "Dum de, dum de, dum de dum, dum de, dum de, dum dum".

"Land of Hope and Glory" should be ours.

Have you listened to the lyrics of other country's anthems though? Like the French "Come children of the fatherland! The day of glory is here!"... and that doesn't mention the country by name either.

forever glad my country changed ours from it

Canada has "The True North, strong and free" which King Charles III even quoted in a speech in Canada

I can't accept that when St Agur and Comté exist.

No. Just no. There are some decent British cheeses, but nothing compared to the diversity and quality of French cheeses

I enjoy medium cheddar regularly...

You can hate me for this, but all French cheese is virtually identical, just with different names

Yorkshire Wensleydale & Cranberries is god tier cheese!

I love Scotland! Still going to whine about the weather, it's good to let it out

Fly tipping boils my blood! Driving along a beautiful road over the hills in the Yorkshire Dales and there's a fridge and another pile of rubbish In a layby 🤬

Um hum, you're going to get on the train or bus with a large bag of smelly trash to take home and throw away. Your sanitation departments need to revamp their collection schedules and provide more dumpsters and bins, and probably more garbage trucks.