We eat chips with everything The fact we always sunburn on holiday How much we moan. We expect everyone else to speak English 2. Binge drinking 3. The fact we have no intention to learn any other language 5. Why we voted for Brexit 6. How England collapses every time it snows as if you didn't realise it would happen every year 7.
We queue for everything 8. Talking about the weather too much Our inability to cope with hot weather We complain a lot Unruly kids Saying 'sorry' too much How much we moan We drive on the left Eat chips with everything.
Of course, hatred of "the foreigner" cuts both ways -- as do preconceptions. The England soccer fans were reviled around the world for booing the Italian national anthem -- but Italian fans had booed the Spanish national anthem in the Italy-Spain semi-final just days before.
In the same way, Cottom talks of attending a soccer match in Barcelona, where "there was a lot of aggression aimed at [English] Chelsea fans -- it was incredibly overpoliced, with policemen hitting fans with batons and setting dogs on them. There was a prejudice there, and they were obviously taking it out on England fans. And he says we all like to stereotype -- in the same way that we all think of Americans as loud, and how New Yorkers refer to the "bridge and tunnel" crowd that comes into the city at weekends.
Jenkins, meanwhile, says that the English aren't the only ones who cleave to home comforts when abroad. And, in fact, he argues that "this is what drives the tourism industry forward.
Starting at the root. Although he is quick to deplore the football hooliganism and the racism which has been on ugly display since England's defeat, Jenkins thinks that general English abroad behavior is different. And he insists that the people who are most offended by the boorish English abroad are their fellow English.
So the people who are most offended by English tourists tend to be English tourists, and I think it's wrong to exaggerate," he says. We shouldn't get too lost in that generalization. For Cottom, going right back to England's roots could change tourists' behavior.
He likes to pretend he's Churchill and Nelson, he'll be doing a Wellington impression next. Learning other languages in schools would also "help enormously", says Cottom, referring to the "arrogance that, 'Of course everyone speaks English'.
And going back to what travel is really about could also help the English clean up their game. I believe you travel to meet foreigners, understand them and get rid of your prejudice. On that count, it's not only the English who could take his advice. An earlier version of this story misstated the location of Benidorm in Spain. It is on the Costa Blanca. A year of the world's Best Beaches There's a perfect beach for every week of the year.
Join us on a month journey to see them all Go to the best beaches. Many countries do not recognize Palestine, and it remains deadlocked with Israel over claims to land. Pakistan and India are also often at odds with each other, especially over the contested state of Kashmir, which both Pakistan and India claim to be part of its territory. The result was the largest forced migration of people in history, as many Hindus had to leave their homes in what became Pakistan, and many Muslims had to leave their homes in what became India.
France is the inheritor of a great history, distinct from though deeply intertwined with that of its neighbor across the channel. For France, this history is revolutionary, all-conquering, exceptional, yet nevertheless prostrate—particularly when it comes to the shame of collaboration during World War II. Also a former empire, the country sees itself as standing for reform over revolt, free-born liberties over abstract rights, and the glory of holding out against Nazism.
How both countries see themselves and their place in history continues to shape their instincts to this day. Throughout the show, French spies exhibit a disdain for and an obsession with the CIA, which is portrayed as a borderline enemy. Perhaps the most telling scene comes early in the series, when a French agent offers to secretly work for the CIA. His American recruiter asks him whether he understands what he is doing, betraying his country. To the British, such a scene is utterly confounding.
Yet the question of defecting is also one of imagination. Paris, however, sees a degree of separation. Although it is part of the West, it is not in the inner core, the English-speaking club. The difference is that whereas Britain emerged from the war heroic but broke, France had the legacy of collaboration to contend with.
For France to recover its dignity by telling itself this story was imperative.
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