Grim-Death of British Civility and Courtesy.
By Uncle Monty.
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Once upon a time, the British were rightly considered
perhaps the most civil and polite people in the world.
At generation after generation, they were taught to
perhaps the most civil and polite people in the world.
At generation after generation, they were taught to
be such to one another and to those visiting us from
outside of Blighty. But, not so anymore. We have
outside of Blighty. But, not so anymore. We have
now become crude and rude and ill-mannered
and ill-tempered to one other and to all manner
of other folks over the past two decades or so.
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The result has been the ongoing grim -death of
British civility and courtesy that now makes our
once considered ill-bred "American Cousins" look
almost like ladies and gentlemen compared to
many of our modern, cold, rude, and
uncivil British folks of today.
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And, it’s getting worse by each day and among
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And, it’s getting worse by each day and among
all social strata-of Britain’s now fragmented and
sick society. The more fragmented we've become,
the more grim and the more sick we seem to
have become, too. Along with becoming cruder
and ruder to each other more than ever before.
Ill-manners and blatant disrepect have now be-
come the growing norm from shop assistants to
street cops to co-workers and among the travel-
ling public, and not the exception anymore, in
today's ever rude and "Broken Little -Britain."
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Why has all of this happened to the once
Why has all of this happened to the once
civil and polite British? One of the major
reasons, I believe, among others, is simply
we are no longer a relatively homogeneous
society of English people that we once was.
We are now an hetrogeneous one that has
seemingly thrown away many British values
and ideals out of the window to accomodate
the massive influx of millions of past and
present African and Asian immigrants and
European foreigners that have settled in
the UK. They have helped to uproot and
destroy what was once considered good
British manners and politeness. At one time
we positively shaped such people, but their
sheer and overwhelming numbers of recent
times has now started to negatively shape
us to the detriment of all-things British.
That includes, of course, what was once
our belief in good manners and polite
behaviour that is now pretty much
in the pigsty of modern settlers.
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There are 12 other reasons, factors, and/or
There are 12 other reasons, factors, and/or
problems, in my thinking, that has contributed
to more and more rude and crude behaviour
that overwhelms whatever civility and
courtesy is now left in the awful UK:
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1: Binge Drinking and Anti-Social Behaviour.
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1: Binge Drinking and Anti-Social Behaviour.
Such excessive beer boozing and drug use by
youthz and young adultz in all regions of the country
engenders no civility and courtesy whatsoever. In
fact, such widespread misconduct has contributed
to greater rudeness and ill-manners by such
out-of-control people. Anti-social behaviour –
that includes vicious vandalism, petty crime, foul
language, and street violence - by kidz as young
as age 7 year is now becoming commonplace
youthz and young adultz in all regions of the country
engenders no civility and courtesy whatsoever. In
fact, such widespread misconduct has contributed
to greater rudeness and ill-manners by such
out-of-control people. Anti-social behaviour –
that includes vicious vandalism, petty crime, foul
language, and street violence - by kidz as young
as age 7 year is now becoming commonplace
in the British Isles.
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2: Abusive Traffic Wardens and Tyrannical
2: Abusive Traffic Wardens and Tyrannical
Parking Enforcement.
Most people at first wouldn't associate such with
the rise of bad manners and lack of courtesy in
Britain. But such does on a daily basis in which
the motorist is compelled to be rude and angry
at the predatory nature of parking enforcement.
Now called “Civil Enforcement Officers,” traffic wardens
have brought about more rudeness and discourtesy by
their mindless ticketing than anything else. It makes
have brought about more rudeness and discourtesy by
their mindless ticketing than anything else. It makes
people scream and shout at them and the punitive
councils with justification by their enforcement of ty-
rannical parking rules that only reinforces the decline
of good manners and civil behaviour in Britain.
So wide spread is parking enforcement that we
cannot avoid it with local councils there to extract
more and more unjust fines out of the motoring
public. Greedy councils have been allowed to
commandeer all the public streets for their own
profit of millions of pounds at the gross expense
of the driving public. Some 700.000 parking
tickets alone were issued last year to visitors to
Britain by such council jackasses. It’s amazing
anybody would want to visit Britain in a car
with the state of wicked traffic enforcement and
all the rudeness that goes with it and all the out-
rageous ticketing, clamping, towing and impound-
ing, and parking fines to boot. That contributes
to greater incivility in the country today. The
UK is now the world's No. 1 country for writing
traffic tickets in its quest and war against the
motorist. More than 10 million traffic tickets of
one kind or another have been savagely imposed
by the country's traffic wardens in the past half
decade or so on the British motoring public. And,
there's no end in sight to the rude response.
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3: Mindless Mass Immigration.
3: Mindless Mass Immigration.
Without a doubt, Third World immigrants are
some of the rudest and most ignorant people
you’ll ever want to meet. They always push,
shove and shout their way onto crowded buses
and run shipshod over whoever gets in their
black way. Most have no manners because they
never have had any. Foreigners of every ilk also
never have had any. Foreigners of every ilk also
show few manners. Ill-manners is a vicious cicle
in which once manners aren’t used, then the next
person oftentimes does the same. If your face
gets slammed in the door because the door wasn’t
held open politely for you, then next time you are
also likely to do the same to the next person.
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4: The Criminalization of the People.
The present decade-old government or more of
Britain’s New Labour has passed more than 3,000
new criminal laws against the people. People are
being criminalized for everything and people are
angry over all that the government is or is not
angry over all that the government is or is not
doing other than making them criminals at every
turn. So bad is the country it is now in a perpetual
state of mindless phobia about racism to the degree
that pages after pages are written almost daily
that pages after pages are written almost daily
about the nature of racism that amounts to catch-all
legislation and arrests used against those who are
legislation and arrests used against those who are
native white sons and daughters of England. They
feel hounded every day and when folkz feel hound-
ed they aren’t civil or polite. How can we expect
them to be? Millions of Britons are fleeing the
country to live anywhere else but inside their own
country. Tragically, they are then replaced by
more immigrants and foreigners to our shores.
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5: The Rise of the Mass Culture.
Most British grandparents have now lived to see
the rise of the mass culture than entails catering to
the masses that never existed until now. Everywhere
you go the food stores are packed, the banks are full
of folkz wanting money, buses and trains are jammed,
sidewalks are crowded with the faceless public, and
shopping malls and over-retailing suck in the
shopping masses like sociopaths on the run. How
can we be polite and civil when we’re treated
like dead sardines every day?
5: The Rise of the Mass Culture.
Most British grandparents have now lived to see
the rise of the mass culture than entails catering to
the masses that never existed until now. Everywhere
you go the food stores are packed, the banks are full
of folkz wanting money, buses and trains are jammed,
sidewalks are crowded with the faceless public, and
shopping malls and over-retailing suck in the
shopping masses like sociopaths on the run. How
can we be polite and civil when we’re treated
like dead sardines every day?
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6: The Loss of Community and Belonging.
6: The Loss of Community and Belonging.
Mass immigration and the flood of EU foreigners
to the UK now sees the loss of community and
belonging for many of those who have lived in their
belonging for many of those who have lived in their
own communities long before all the useless immigrants
and lousy foreigners took over the place against the
will of the local people. Such has created friction and
will eventually spill over into violent confrontation,
if steps are not taken immediately to reign in New
and lousy foreigners took over the place against the
will of the local people. Such has created friction and
will eventually spill over into violent confrontation,
if steps are not taken immediately to reign in New
Labour’s mindless mass immigration to the UK.
When one feels one no longer belongs, then the
spirit is destroyed and the levels of rudeness
and incivility increases as folkz lash out in their
anger at such outsiders taking over. Many
working folkz feel under siege from all the
immigrants and foreigners now overwhelm-
ing the country beyond all belief or all reason.
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7: The End of Traditional Values of Child Rearing.
7: The End of Traditional Values of Child Rearing.
Do you ever hear today such common courtesy
as "Yes, sir" or "No, sir" or "Please, sir" or
"Thank you, sir" coming out of the mouths of
today's ill-reared and empty-mannered British
school kidz to their teachers or elders or to
those in authority? Well, of course, not. We
have instead, in the past couple of generations,
reared educational and social child morons that
are seen at our failed school system and poor
standards of education. Children are no longer
taught manners it seems now that we have
liberated them from almost all forms of
discipline and control in the home and school.
The callous disrespect for the elderly is also
standards of education. Children are no longer
taught manners it seems now that we have
liberated them from almost all forms of
discipline and control in the home and school.
The callous disrespect for the elderly is also
seen in such children who also treat their own
parent as shoddy as their own parents are.
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8: The Mass Mobility of Society.
Mass mobility has brought about the lack of
rootedness of many people that go everywhere
thesedays, but know nowhere other than on the
8: The Mass Mobility of Society.
Mass mobility has brought about the lack of
rootedness of many people that go everywhere
thesedays, but know nowhere other than on the
constant move to somewhere else from whence
they first came. When folkz suffer from "un-
rootedness" - like many of the homeless do -
we oftentimes see they also lose whatever
sense of manners they may have once had. As
our national and world populations explode, too,
the mass mobility of society become even more
pronounced and hence the lack of rootedness
grows greater along with the lack of kind
respect or courtesy to or for others.
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9: The Impersonalization of the Individual.
9: The Impersonalization of the Individual.
The rise of the ID Card is a classic example of
Britain’s impersonalization of the individual with
an attached number and photo around their
Britain’s impersonalization of the individual with
an attached number and photo around their
neck as they enter their workplace to prove he
or she is indeed "a someone” who works there.
Distrust and suspicion of the individual is now
always tied to those without an ID Card to
show. Such can bring unpleasent confront-
ations from in-house security guards for
those "IDless," even though they are
perfectly harmless individual after all
is said and done. And, who then
guards the bloody guards?
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10: The Cult of Celebrity.
Pick up any freesheet on any morning, at
say London's Waterloo or Covent Garden or
Canary Wharf, and you'll be visually-waylaid
by at least 3 or 4 or 5 pages of celebrity news
and gossip and their scandals and their dis-
gusting lifestyles or their arrests for this or
that, along with full TV listings of their talk
show appearances with say Oprah or
whoever. Many of those celebrities are
simply shallow and hollow. Yet, the public
thrives on them like empty idols that they
are. Worse still, their ill-manners and
filthy mouths infect the public mores
that are copied or mimicked by millions,
especially by the young who oftentimes
act out - consciously or subliminally - by
what they see of what such celebrities do.
Many celebrities have helped to bring about
the present contempt for what was once
good and solid British civility and courtesy.
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11: The All-Embracing and Non-Stop
Use of Digital Gadgetry: Cellphones, etc.
Use of Digital Gadgetry: Cellphones, etc.
Of all the modern digital monsters invading
our personal space thesedays are those
addictive and irrational users of the mind-
less cellphone or mobile at every spot of
the public realm. Public rudeness is rife
with many cellphone users who scream
and shout with their "must have" i.phone
or swanky model or their Blackberry to
constantly bring out of their pocket or purse
so that we can all see what they own and
have. Public laptop users, like cellphone
users, have no regard for anybody but
themselves in many cases. Good manners
go down the drain, too, as such users re-
fuse to interact outside of their gadgets
or machines. Ironically, today we have
more ditigal tools than ever before to
widely communicate, yet such tools have
in fact brought about less communication
with each other on a personal and social
level. Everybody is talking into "something"
like the cellphone, but less and less are
we talking directly to each other more
often than not. When people fail to talk with
each other, then there's less need to excerise
civility and courtesy to each other much like
we continue to see every day in places like
England that has now lost its past beauty of
mutual respect and concern for one another.
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12: The Rejection of Church Teachings.
For ages, The Church has taught us how
we should as Christians treat each other.
That means using kind words of greeting
when we meet or bumped into one other.
With the grim death of British cilvility
and courtesy, we also see how folkz now
fail to greet each other with kind words
like "Good morning," How are you?,"
"Nice to see you," "What are you
doing today," "Hope you're alright?,"
and/or "Have a nice day ..." In almost 4
years, just as an example, as a Big Issue
vendor, not once have I been greeted by
distribution staff using kind words of morn-
ing greetings. Such reflects the dead state of
British manners and politeness today at the
street level at least. The Church teaches that
we most no treat others like they don't exist,
but such is common at The Big Issue at Co-
vent Garden not just to me, but to pretty
well everybody else. Incivility and discour-
tesy always flourish when the individual is
not first discerned for their dignity and
presence and experience by those they
that really don't know if they're talking
to a pauper or a prince or a priest or a
parasite or a plumber or a professor. And,
even if by chance they do know the differ-
ence, they just don't bloody care any-
way ... Again, Church teachings
teaches and tells us otherwise.
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Above all, good manners and politeness
costs us nothing. They're cost free. But
the lack of such costs us alot more in the
overall loss of the quality of life for us all.
The traffic warden's nasty parking ticket
reduces the quality of life by their predatory
job and cold manners. The cold street cop also
lowers the quality of the community because
he or she has lost the ability to serve the
people with being nice and well-mannered.
The shop assistant who insists on not assist-
ing the customer is also part of the decline
of civility and courtesy all over the UK.
The rude kid who is told he or she does
not need to stand up so that someone who
is old enough to be his own grandmother
can sit down on the bus is open rudeness
that gets worse with each ill-bred kid, who
is no longer freely corrected by anybody.
Such are further eamples of all that is
wrong with today's "Broken Little Britain."
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The 12 points I have listed above
are not listed by any special order or
gravity or level of importance per se,
but rather they're listed to demonstrate
some of the factors behind the death
of civility and courtesy right in our
every day midst. Such, explains why
we've become so bad-mannered and
so ignorant to each other.
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Also read below what the
BBC found out about British bad manners
and lack of courtesy back now some 8 years
ago. If we were then called "Rude Britannia,"
we have, at the turn of the upcoming second
decade of the 21st century, now become even
more "Real -Rude Britannia" since then.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/759276.stm=
Teaching Children and Teens Good Manners.
www.etiquetteco.com/education.html
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We've now become even more "Real-Rude
Britannia." And, we'll never see the return
of what was once truly British civility and
courtesy. People today for the most part
don't give a damn whether we're rude or not.
Why? Because they, too, are oftentimes as
rude and as impolite as the next person.
Who cares anyway? I for one do ...
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Vexed, Uncle Monty.
+Love Is A Many-Splendoured
Thing, 2oo9.
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