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I would also say that few countries in the western world examine themselves and poll on every aspect of their life as much as the British. I love the British people and I am now one of them but I often feel a lot of the problems are self fulfilling prophecies. Every where has problems but then they deal with them or hide them. Complaining is the national sport of the UK and if it can be done while complaining about youth all the better. So, there is a certain sort of hobby involved in these polls that results in the middle classes and up wanting to read them and shake their fingers at 'them'. Meanwhile the 'them' then decide they really are going to be 'like that' and start wearing such behavior as near badges of honor. It is a self fueled cycle of class warfare.
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