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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even leaving aside its military bases, America's influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians - and its Foreign Office - have found it hard to adjust to the loss, not so much of onetime colonies as of the global clout the colonies once afforded.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed alike, and almost all were white. The vast majority belonged to the same religion and spoke much the same language.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acts of violence against one's own countrymen that are legitimated by religion are not new. Nor have such acts been unique to Islam.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
States that have experienced revolutions or have acquired their independence from empires - such as the U.S. or Australia - tend to celebrate their constitutional documents and put them on show in special galleries so that every citizen can become familiar with them. In the U.K., this is not properly done.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against which they define themselves.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics retains abundant masculine rituals. Prime minister's question time in Britain, for instance, is a stylised duel and tournament redolent of testosterone.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play subtler, more variegated roles. Leaders of the U.S. don't have that option.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gulf between imperial ideals and empire on the ground has customarily proved disillusioning not only for colonial peoples but also for some in the occupying power.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020