it isn't often explicitly addressed - think it would be health if it was.
Instead, you have a nation of 'little Englanders' , as they are called here, whose parents were raised with stories of the great empire and have passed the stories down. Stories of living and ruling in India and Africa and of beating Hitler.
Now, they are having to face the backlash of what those years as an Empire did to the other countries. It seems - from an outsider who moved here - that these little Englanders never prepared themselves for influxes of populous from the countries they eventually felt fit to give indepence to or having to deal with residual issues of colonisation such as in Zimbabwae (watch this space...Blair will get pay back from Bush in form of helping with this one).
The UK - and particularly England - was the ruler of the world, if not always politcally then morally in their eyes but because of being an island they could keep it at arms reach. Now, it is knocking at their door either in the form of Europe or the rest of the world represented by the UN and Nato and it scares people.
There was a famous headline a few years back that kind of sums up the UK's vision of their position in the world :'Fog in the channel - Europe cut off'
All that said, I do love living here..just observations.
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