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Well, I guess power corrupts etc... etc...

Although, as far as the UK is concerned, I have noticed that once Brits leave the island, the preponderance of their liberalism and tolerance seems to evaporate, leaving only an unpleasant core of xenophobia and bigotry. Or perhaps that is just some sort of self-selection / sampling bias, driven by the sort of people who tend to head off into the wide open yonder?



British ex-pats are famous for it for some reason.

I don't think it's all of them (I'd say us but I returned to the motherland a while back), just the ones you notice.




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