Cut out and keep: How to behave in Britain

[yetanotherbob]

I wonder what the modern day equivalent would look like though.

How about this?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/English-Port.../dp/0141032952

[yetanotherbob]

ISTR they Americans demanded segregated regiments which they were granted by the MOD. They also demanded segregated pubs but the landlords refused. They went in to pubs and often tried to beat up the black guys there but were surprised (and probably injured) when the white British would intervene and fought alongside their black countrymen. Made me proud to be British.

A friend who was in the army more recently was told by some Americans who they were working with that their unit had been told "don't drink with the British, don't gamble with the British and for God's sake don't fight with the British".

It's just one of the things among many give me a great deal of pride in having become part of this country even if as an immigrant - And once upon a time 'immigrant' wasn't such a bad word...
(Ref: South Asians and the Shaping of Britain: 1870-1950, edited by Ruvani Ranasinha et al, review - Telegraph)

Mahinder Singh Pujji, a 22-year-old Indian man, was queuing to see a film at his local cinema. The man in front of him saw his turban and uniform – Pujji was a member of the RAF – and said: “Sir, you don’t have to stand in the queue.” He ushered him to the front of the line. No one grumbled and the woman working in the ticket office, again seeing his turban and wings, refused to accept money for the ticket....

[yetanotherbob]

Unabashedly proud of my adopted country.

[BlasterBates]

The trains are unwashed and grimy because men and women are needed for more important work than car-washing.

Did they buy that one

Some of the ones that stayed may have noticed that the trains remained unwashed and grimy long after the war.

he British people are anxious for you to know that in normal times Britain looks much prettier, cleaner, neater.

ha ha.....

it gets better

The British are beer-drinkers-and can hold it.

You will find that English crowds at football matches are more orderly and polite to the players than American crowds.

[northernladuk]

That is a great post. Someone did a good job of writing that. I thought it would be a dismissive piece of rubbish but it's a good read with good unbiased points.

I wonder what the modern day equivalent would look like though.

[Gibbon]

Nice informative post, thank you.

[sirja]

ISTR they Americans demanded segregated regiments which they were granted by the MOD. They also demanded segregated pubs but the landlords refused. They went in to pubs and often tried to beat up the black guys there but were surprised (and probably injured) when the white British would intervene and fought alongside their black countrymen. Made me proud to be British.

A friend who was in the army more recently was told by some Americans who they were working with that their unit had been told "don't drink with the British, don't gamble with the British and for God's sake don't fight with the British".

It's a sad fact that while the Americans were 'The good guys' for many blacks that was not the experience. In fact Jesse Owens has said that he had more freedom in Nazi Berlin during the Olympics than back home in the US. It's really nice to read that the good people of the UK drew a line on this kind of nonsense.

[TykeMerc]

Excellent find thanks for posting the link.

[stek]

ISTR they Americans demanded segregated regiments which they were granted by the MOD. They also demanded segregated pubs but the landlords refused. They went in to pubs and often tried to beat up the black guys there but were surprised (and probably injured) when the white British would intervene and fought alongside their black countrymen. Made me proud to be British.

A friend who was in the army more recently was told by some Americans who they were working with that their unit had been told "don't drink with the British, don't gamble with the British and for God's sake don't fight with the British".

Sounds like a plot from 'Goodnight Sweetheart'!

[MyUserName]

There was something on QI about how American GIs had been warned about the different attitudes to race in Britain, i.e. that the British were just as welcoming (or otherwise) to black American soldiers as to white soldiers, whereas the white Americans were a bit shocked to go into the pubs and discover they were expected to drink in the same room as the blacks.

ISTR they Americans demanded segregated regiments which they were granted by the MOD. They also demanded segregated pubs but the landlords refused. They went in to pubs and often tried to beat up the black guys there but were surprised (and probably injured) when the white British would intervene and fought alongside their black countrymen. Made me proud to be British.

A friend who was in the army more recently was told by some Americans who they were working with that their unit had been told "don't drink with the British, don't gamble with the British and for God's sake don't fight with the British".

[VectraMan]

Very interesting.

There was something on QI about how American GIs had been warned about the different attitudes to race in Britain, i.e. that the British were just as welcoming (or otherwise) to black American soldiers as to white soldiers, whereas the white Americans were a bit shocked to go into the pubs and discover they were expected to drink in the same room as the blacks.

[doodab]

It made me proud to be from such good stock and live in such a wonderful country.

[MyUserName]

There are housewives in aprons and youngsters in knee pants in Britain who have lived through more high explosives in air raids than many soldiers saw in first class barrages in the last war.

I actually found that quite chilling.

Helps me remember how easy my life is compared to many though!

[wurzel]

A different world...

Some things haven't changed though:

The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee.

Thank God for Costa

[darmstadt]

This is great: Britain