You know what comment I get most frequently here in London after I say I live in the US?
“You must find people here so unpleasant! In the US everybody is so nice and polite, unlike here.”
I don’t find that to be true, though. Everybody I’ve come across in the UK has been very polite and helpful.
Here are more photos.
The Piccadilly Circus:
Ok, it’s just a road that leads into the Circus but I love this building.
Today was a day of protests everywhere. Falun Gong was protesting against torture and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese:
Eritreans were protesting against sanctions, I think, but I’m not very familiar with their situation, so it was hard to figure out:
And animal lovers from Scotland protested against Cameron’s timid promise somewhat to relax the restrictions on fox-hunting:
I don’t want to make it sound like I’m equating the tragedy of Falun Gong or whatever is happening in Eritrea with the strange hullabaloo over fox-hunting. It simply so happened that the protests were located obe after another on my way.
And since we’ve been talking about Churchill, here’s the statue:
It stands facing the Westminster Palace:
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I also find people to be polite and helpful in both countries. I find there to be greater levels of superficial cheerfulness and “fake” friendliness in the US (which I have to admit grates on me a bit) but the underlying level of genuine helpfulness seems to be about the same. Which makes sense to me because I tend to believe that people are people, wherever they are.
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