why do alot of people not like english people(not as individuals but as a nation)???

Question

like i personally have nothing againts them but to be fair i have never met a very nice english person(and i've met my fair share)
as i'm frm ireland! (to close to them really)

i think they just can't take it that the impire they once had is totally gone now
and they can never talk about any one elses cocerns it all me me me!

oh i don't judge people as soon as i know they are english

ps the IRA only doing back what was done to us by the english

ireland only half free will always have a son left to pull a trigger

IRA ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whoops for putting it in wrong section
i apologise

Answer 1

Where do I begin?

* Attitude problems in sports
*Bad Teeth
* Full of working class chavs
*All talk about being British but love getting out of Britain to go to sunny places.
* Women are cheap
*Men are sad
*Men are all gay
*Women are all cheap (Oh I said that)
*Love bringing people down
*Always look at the negaives
* The British tabloid newspapers
* They love chavs like Robbie Williams
*They have no taste in home decoration
*They think chips is haute cuisine
*They don't liie foreign people but love eating curries
*They hate all Europeans but love licking American ****
*They hate the Irish and Scottish but everyone HATES them
*They have the ugliest and most talentless football team around
* They hate 'Pakis' and Muslims but they come plastered in Pakistani restaurants for a 'kerrie'
*They love meddling in other people's affairs
*All the they do is drink and be desperate.
*They think they are posh and clever and Americans are stupid
*They like to think they own the joint but they don't even help run it.
*They don't look like they wash thei hair or have baths for that matter.
*Did I say they have terrible teeth?


There's more but there's a really nice piece of chocolate cake waiting for me downstairs. I'm afraid I'm gonna eat it.

Amanda P: It was all tongue in cheek. Just having a laugh because it's all the stuff everybody in the world makes fun out of England for. There are alot of positives as well. Do you know how long the list would have been for other countries like America? Once again only joking because people get angry but you have to admit alot of it is true. Believe it or not but I love England apart from what I mentioned, it's so quaint and traditional.

Answer 2

I suspect its probably only people who feel the need to dislike others that pick on a 'type' to vent their own feelings of insecurity. We have many friends and relatives from all over the Isles and we all get on and party together - never met any hostilities yet!!! So sad you feel like you do. Just take everyone on their face value and you could be in for a pleasant surprise - not just with the English, but Irish and Scots too (even tho you are from Ireland!)

Answer 3

Sometimes it has to do with our history. Where I live in Wales, lots of the land was just given to the English and even now, English people can come from their more expensive housing areas and make offers on houses that the locals here can't compete with - taking the area over again and forcing the locals out. Some might refer to this as a race memory. In Ireland there was the potato famine and the English government did not respond to the need quickly enough - so catastrophically people in your country starved. I am so sorry.

These things can set the stage for one country's people to dislike another country's.

Answer 4

I think because we went to a lot of places and killed a lot of people during our imperial days. Aside from people the English directly conquered, we had rivalries with most of Europe and fought most of them too, so at times of war the England created stereotypes about their enemy and the enemy did to the English. Also for a long time the English suffered from what many Americans do now, we were the most powerful nation and the richest, we were very arrogant and disrespectful of other countries. Some English people still maintain that we should be telling all other countries what to do.

Answer 5

English people are not perfect but then i cant think of a nationality that are? Helen you are a paddy for f**k sake, didn't you ever hear about people in glass houses? I mean what the hell is an impire, hello..... paddy and murphy jokes!???!

As for NewmansOwn, be careful you don't choke on that cake dear.

Answer 6

I don't know.

I hate all this don't like the E nglish, Don't like Muslims, Don't like Nigerians etc etc etc.

Judge each person you meet on their own merits and do not tar them with the problems of a nation.

I have met some fantastic Irish people and I have met some horrible Irish people. I have seen the IRA bombings but do not blame Irish people for that.

Its soooooo silly.

Sorry but thats how I feel.

I like nice friendly people whatever your race colour creed or religion.

Answer 7

Helen:

I'm an American of British and Irish ancestry so I like the English, and I equally like the Irish (but I'm not too excited about the French.)

Answer 8

You havent met the right people!
Generally i think its a combination of many things. For example, british empire days, we've alot of clout 4 such a small country, being conservative, the british weather, our involvement with USA...we poke our noses in where perhaps we shouldnt...right down to the way we talk!

Answer 9

Goodness knows why that should be !
You seem a bit unlucky

I have many good friends and relations, who are American
and i have never felt any hostility towards me

Could it be a little envy of our Royalty perhaps ?

maybe we speak, in a hoity toity way LOL!

I have a daughter in Belfast , she is happy teaching there

I have lived in England for a long time ,
people are people, here some are likable some are not

goes for all nations i think


>^,,^<

Answer 10

Some of the answerer's received are what give nations a bad name. I am English but lived in Germany for 15 years, majority of the German people that knew us English, thought we were wonderful, and then went against their own people, saying they were rude and arrogant. But i must admit the English are getting very full of themselves.