Only now are there beginning to be rumblings about holding people who were in power to account. Those are only rumblings. British history has often been cruel. It has hundreds of years of track record favoring the elite over everyone else. Although much progress has been made toward a more evenhanded system, that's a lot of past to leave…
Only now are there beginning to be rumblings about holding people who were in power to account. Those are only rumblings. British history has often been cruel. It has hundreds of years of track record favoring the elite over everyone else. Although much progress has been made toward a more evenhanded system, that's a lot of past to leave behind.
The USA's system is actually much better about reining in the elite than the British system, *when it puts its mind to it*. We are taught that England is the mother country for the USA, but it's much more of a mix--thank heaven.
It's funny, leaving my birth country has caused me to see it in an entirely different, more nuanced light than I could when I hadn't lived anywhere else yet. And coming here from another country causes me to see the UK differently from native Britons. I should have spent a few years abroad when I was much younger.
Only now are there beginning to be rumblings about holding people who were in power to account. Those are only rumblings. British history has often been cruel. It has hundreds of years of track record favoring the elite over everyone else. Although much progress has been made toward a more evenhanded system, that's a lot of past to leave behind.
The USA's system is actually much better about reining in the elite than the British system, *when it puts its mind to it*. We are taught that England is the mother country for the USA, but it's much more of a mix--thank heaven.
It's funny, leaving my birth country has caused me to see it in an entirely different, more nuanced light than I could when I hadn't lived anywhere else yet. And coming here from another country causes me to see the UK differently from native Britons. I should have spent a few years abroad when I was much younger.