The tendency to paint the English people as the source of all B.A.D is lazy and illustrates an ignorance of history.
Oh most certainly. I'm afraid I pinged at narrowing English to a particular grouping of Englishmen -- I'm growing indifferent to collective blame for everything B.A.D (and the Disney version of world history) :)
From what I can see blaming the English, and the Victorians, allows people to put racism -- and colonialism -- safely in the past, another affectation of those funny people who covered piano legs. Something we're recovering from rather than struggling to understand.
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Oh most certainly. I'm afraid I pinged at narrowing English to a particular grouping of Englishmen -- I'm growing indifferent to collective blame for everything B.A.D (and the Disney version of world history) :)
From what I can see blaming the English, and the Victorians, allows people to put racism -- and colonialism -- safely in the past, another affectation of those funny people who covered piano legs. Something we're recovering from rather than struggling to understand.