What do you know about... the UK?

[u/MarktpLatz]

This is the sixth part of our ongoing weekly series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Todays country:

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The UK is the second most populous state in the EU. Famous for once being the worlds leading power, reigning over a large empire, it has recently taken the decision to exit the EU.

So, what do you know about the UK?

[u/[deleted]]

Always in the right side of History

Rotfl.

One has to be completely blind to say something that absurd about the UK.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

What has that to do with anything? My statement isn't ridiculous.

[u/BigFatNo → u/[deleted]]

Does that somehow disregard that the British did some fucked up shit in the past?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

How is that even relevant, lol. The sole fact that you helped Poland or whatever during WWII doesn't mean that UK was always on "the right side" throughout all of the history.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well, most Poles would respond to this with "Thanks for nothing, UK" or "Thanks for selling us to Stalin in Yalta, traitors", I noticed that Brits like to idealize their policies, that they skip or down-play the hard (for someone else of course) part and that they lack any knowledge about how their policy is often negatively viewed on the continent as selfish and perfidious. I noticed that many Brits doesn't realise that other historical points of view even exist, for example that in many countries Napoleon is seen as a hero while for English it's a villain.

The point is... you can paste many other examples when Britain was on the right side of the history, but he used a pretty strong quantifier.

Always in the right side of History

Therefore, you're making a fool of yourself, becouse there are two options. You're idealizing your country to a point when you can't believe your country has been doing bad things (or you're downplaying it) or you just simply don't posses this knowledge at all.