Brexit
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Rage wrote:
o me, they were a living incarnation of condescension : they know all better than you, they speak in their most perfect English so that you have absolutely no chance of understanding anything as a foreigner, etc..., etc.... Several places, different people, same attitude, so I am not making this up.
And yet, when I worked in France and Luxembourg, I always took the time to try and learn the culture of the area I was in; it was one of my great pleasures. You speak in generalities when, as in all other cases, there are no absolutes - it all comes down to individuals. The thing is, what you're seeing right now is a xenophobia that has been whipped up by racists and then seized on by politicians aiming to serve their own ends. Add to this mix, a press that react to the way their owners want them to, rather than reporting the news they are trying to make the news. The reality, of course, is that there are many who are very happy to be members of the EU. We don't agree with everything that it does but, then again, we don't agree with everything our own governments do either. Does the EU need to reform? Of course it does. There are too many things that it still does wrong. There are also many things that it does right. This is why I hope to wake up tomorrow to find that we have voted to stay in.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I always took the time to try and learn the culture of the area I was in
This is very much reflecting your exemplar behaviour here on CP, so no surprise there -> I did mention that people here are far more open-minded than the average, didn't I ?
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
it all comes down to individuals.
Well, the fact that it happened in several different places with several different people biased my judgement, probably. I am usually not the overgeneralising guy, the world is nor completely black neither completely white.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
there are many who are very happy to be members of the EU
You're the first one I have ever met who openly says he wants to stay in. Even here on CP I have read a lot of threads about how UK would be better off not belonging to EU - Again, I am not the "I read it on the Internet, then it must be true" guy, but all facts being put together, plus the echo from the media, helps grounding an opinion.