forum HALP I NEED BRITISH EXPERTISEEEEEEEE!

Started November 18, 2019 by @Leo-Valdez-Is-The-God-Of-Chaos

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Hey hi if you live in Europe or Britain or Ireland can you please tell me? I'm writing a book set in Europe and I've been doing research but google and bing can only get me so far

Hi there! I live in the UK, how can I help?

how do you think Britain would respond to several nuclear warheads in multiple places? kinda a weird question but idk

What do you mean by that?

also, where would be the most likely areas to be bomved in the event of WWIII?

I'm still not sure what you mean by the first question, so I can't really answer.
The second one: Portsmouth, London, Southampton, Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff, Swansea, Birmingham, Belfast, Liverpool, Hull, Coventry, Glasgow, Manchester and Sheffield.

Alright thank u

Also about the first question I'm writing about WWIII and I was wondering how do you think Britain would retaliate if it was victim to nukes coming down in some of those cities you listed?

Oh!
Basically, there are nuclear warheads all over the world. Including here in England. If someone nukes us, we nuke them.
The doctrine is called Mutually Assured Destruction.

I'll be more specific.
There are nuclear warheads in the US, UK, France, India, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, South Africa, China and Israel.

Oh thank u

Hey this is kind of random but how do British people see America? like, it's a big country out here. do you have different stereotypes of americans by state or area that they live in? is it even common to acknowledge that usa exists?

I mean if I'm honest, we can't seem to escape talk about the USA.
Stereotypes I guess are that rednecks are incestuous and that most Americans are fat or generally unhealthy.
I was having a discussion with my friend group about the US, and the common things that occurred were its corrupt government, the fact that health care isn't free, and that there are no kinder eggs. For some reason, no kinder eggs really bugs us.
I once went on a rant about America, but the kinds of things I said are not appropriate to say in a public thread.

Well the whole redneck thing isn't far away no matter where you go, but I don't know about fat. most people over forty seem to be fairly overweight, but anyone younger than that is almost always built like a beanpole, at least where I live. and corrupt government is mostly just talk, we're pretty alright when it isn't election year. healthcare isn't free bc americans really like having low taxes, even if it means high medical bills. also, americans are bugged by no kinder eggs too.

hey also do you learn at all about the American revolution? and if so, what about it?

Well, in all the schools that I went to, the American Revolution wasn't part of the History lessons.
I'm assuming that our government doesn't think it's important enough to be worth learning about.
I know what happened, but that is only through my own research.

ok, well sorry if it seems like I'm grilling you with questions, but I've never been out of country and I wonder what Europe is like.

also, do British people typically get offended if they're called European? I heard from someone that they do, but idk.

Well I personally don't take offense, I mean we are in Europe for the time being, but I think it would be safer/better to refer to Britons as British (since we are from Britain). And I don't mind being asked questions.

Okay, well that's a relief. Hey one more thing, do British people learn anything about, or even acknowledge the existence of, the American Civil War?

Sort of? I mean, I'm Australian and we touch up on it in the later years.

just out of curiosity, what do you learn about the American Revolution and Civil War?

Only the parts that really involved us.

I mean, they were such big pieces of history that impacted the whole world we at least needed to touch up on them

Again, we don't learn about that either. We know it happened, but we don't really talk about it.
Things to do with America don't really come up in our education.
When I was in History back in high school, the only things we learned about regarding America started with the Wall Street Crash. We learned about Nixon, Roosevelt, Reagan, Hoover, JFK, MLK, The New Deal, Little Rock, the bus boycott… All boring stuff you know. Basically we only learned about what happened between 1929 and 1980