Found this article in the NY Times
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Aye, likewise - when I lived abroad as a kid I was - I hate to admit it - ashamed of my fellow Brits, but then I was young and stupid and lumped them all together.
I did everything I could to ingratiate myself with the locals, distancing myself from my fellow countrymen. As I grew up, I realised this was too polar a perspective. When I moved back to Britain to go to uni, I realised how totally wrong I was.
I was 18 at the time. I'll forgive myself for being so stupidly and credulously single-minded in my ill-thought conviction.
I'll be generous and assume some of the posters in here are equally as young as that, and have not the time on this earth or the breadth of its experience to formulate a realistic opinion beyond those remorseless, single-sided caricatures spouted by gleeful journos.
btw - khurram - I'm kind of curious to know why you think my mentioning shekels is anti-semitic.
You said to me once, here, that people tend to see and respond to in others that which they most ignore and dislike in themselves (or, words to that effect). Given that the term 'shekel' is an oft-used catchall for all money from beyond time, I wonder why it is so ardently racist, as you imply? Curious, anyway. Especially as shekel isn't even specifically Jewish - it comes from way before that.