Apparently it's Official: Britons are most cultured Europeans

[T_i_B]

:shrug:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1418110,00.html

The Italians have Michelangelo, the French Molière and the Germans Beethoven. But, according to an Italian survey, the British - the beer-swilling, tabloid-reading, supposedly sports-crazy British - are more cultured than any of them.

They go to more concerts, films, plays, galleries and libraries than almost anyone in Europe. They even manage to visit more ruins and monuments than the Italians.

These and other findings are contained in a survey of European cultural consumption commissioned in Italy and due to be published next week. Interviewees in the countries that made up the EU until its enlargement last year were asked if they had been to any one of a series of cultural events in the previous 12 months.

The British scored higher than the French, Germans and Italians in every category except sport. More than 60% of Britons said they were film-goers, compared with only 52% in the land of Renoir, Godard and Truffaut, and 49% of Britons claimed to have been to a library, compared with 27% in the homeland of Goethe.

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[T_i_B]

2. Please define "conservatist socialism"

Is this the new meaningless, contradictory and vapid Blairite catchphrase?

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[LeftishBrit]

4. Blair is unfortunately re-electable...

Only because the alternative is MICHAEL HOWARD (gag!)

[mr blur]

6. Well, I missed the deleted post,

but the last thing we need is more Conservative Socialism. Oh, I forgot, we're not allowed to be S***alists any more. Might give the wrong impression. People might think we believed in something, and that would scare Middle England to death.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Wow - deleted messages in a light-hearted thread like this

who got so het up - a troll, or some regular with a less than complimentary view of the British?

[T_i_B]

7. Not so much anti-British

as anti-EU for post#1. Anyway, I missed the reply to my request for elaboration in post#3. Mind you, the same troll appears to have been at work in the thread below. Hopefully now we can get back on topic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3141965

[Vladimir]

8. Going to the cinema and being cultured seem to me almost

antithetical these days... :P

[non sociopath skin]

9. Depends a lot on what you go to see, I guess, Vlad ....

... though the same could be said about the theatre, literature and just about every other branch of the arts.

The Skin