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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days agoFrom the inside - yes, what I meant is that British society is often seen favorably from the outside.
And the comparison to Russia is maybe because this was one of the pictures imagined when thinking “how does a society look when fixed”, and the Russian society sees itself as broken, that feels recent, but isn’t.
And that picture still affects other societies.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yeah, I think I get what you mean.
My own country, Portugal, has issues and around here there is a big tendency to look to Britain for inspiration, yet Britain in many ways is even more broken than my own country (certainly it’s a far less fair society, more stratified, way more violent amongst the lower classes and more fake amongst the upper classes) and which wealth-wise is mainly is just using the pile (of both money and infrastructure) accumulated during their time not that long ago when it was an Empire, rather than in the present day being a more productive country,
People look up to Britain, copy what’s done there under the impression that it works, and then end up with similar problems but none of the good things because the “success” of Britain isn’t the product of what they do now, it’s just accumulated wealth and structures from almost a century ago.
That said, I think the circus that was Brexit has taken the shine out of Britain in most of Europe, including Portugal, maybe more strongly so here because Portugal used to send a lot of emigrants over there and many came back following Brexit and the consequences of Brexit with a far worse opinion of Britain than they went there with, and they certainly shared that opinion with family and friends.