Its more than that. The psyche of ass-ies is such that they will never ever believe that the UK could be seeing its way out as a minor power* even. You can still find people who would treat a degree from oxbridge as the next best thing after sliced bread, in fact the movers and shakers in much of what makes assie academia are anglais-educated, returned from ang-land after a post-phd stint, etc. Lo and behold, you have seen both sides of the atlantic, then you are god incarnate literally. I have seen some of the pomp and show of the high table in princeton of all amriki institutions, nowhere else in amrika, may be some of the neanderthal ivy clubs may be. In ass-tralia, the high table is the passport to success. This fondness for ang-land** also explains why they still cant figure a deadline to republicanizing ass-tralia, they wont. In fact, ass-tralia, suud afrika, canada and new zealand were at the forefront of the whole commonwealth movement, not the brits (most definitely not the scots or the welsh or the irish). If the assies become a republic, something dramatic and terrible should have happened to the UK, cos as it stands, the assies wont find a reason to give up their tenuous connections to "motherland." Ass-tralia is truly the abcd of asia, more confused than a stereotyped abcd.Singha wrote:perhaps Keating sir has good faith in the dynamism of the UK financial industry.
* We can debate to eternity about whether UK is a minor power or a posterboy of how Rome came down, or how the sun set on the brit empire, etc. Fact is, the perception of UK as a "power" in much of the academic circles is seen by rankings such as the USNews, SJtong rankings, and that like. Plus, the financial muscle and pound-dollar ER, etc., add to the strong imagery. UK still is home to some of the innovations such as T20, *** got talent, etc., but far from the days when UK used to be the innovation wunderkid as a side-effect of the blackholism that was the brit empire. One or two olympic golds, a paula radcliffe, a 2005 ashes make people believe that UK may be on a rebound, far from reality, but thats another story.
** All that bs about whipping/pwning/pomming the poms etc., stop at the edge of the oval, thats why they find it odd when some of the sdres take insults past the bier-hallen. Truly the maaki moment was amusing to a broad audience on both sides of the divide given the ribbing that people get to hear at pubs and how some sdres could nt care about giving back what they get.