Where is the real Britain? (high school, castles, suburbs)

[Midessan]

Hello guvnas! I want to visit the "real Britain", you know, tea drinking dukes, castles, Victorian pickpockets and beefeaters. Is there still an area of Britain like that? Thanks in advance.

[theunbrainwashed]

On the data side of a Jane Austen DVD disc

[venicebeach222]

If you want to experience English heritage you need to go to places like York, Windsor, Oxford, the Cotswolds. They a traditional cafes with scones tea and cakes . There are castles too which won't disappoint. London has traditional cafes too in central London.

[paull805]

That isn't the "real" Britain lol.

[BennyBucks]

So true that many americans still have this old stereotype of the polite tea drinking englishman, or the converse the football hooligans. The thing is that compared to where americans are culturally the stereotypes still hold true in the relative sense.

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by paull805

That isn't the "real" Britain lol.

Shh, let us think that Britain is still stuck in the Victorian era

[Midessan]

Originally Posted by paull805

That isn't the "real" Britain lol.

I might as well come clean here. I started this thread as a joke because a poster in the General U.S. forum asked which state was the most American. He wanted to experience the real America of country fairs, suburbs, high school cheerleaders, football (presumably the real football we have here, not soccer) and neon diners. This sparked a debate about what exactly the "real" America is, and naturally ended with one poster calling another one a nazi. Basically a typical city data thread. The stereotype used here was an example given by a British person of what he would consider annoying. Unfortunately the joke was orphaned when that thread was deleted.

[Gungnir]

Well it's failure is sealed for posterity, like the thread itself...

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