If you could change one thing culturally about the UK / it's people, what would it be?

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SJEastLon@reddit

I would change the way people look down on education and how it's uncool to work hard or be clever. The crab pot mentality of not wanting others to succeed.

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Choccybizzle@reddit

‘No point in school, and why you wanna go Uni anyway? For some useless degree?’

A phrase I’ve heard variations of many times.

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While I will argue that one does not need to have a degree to earn a good living (I was in high school in 2005-2010 where going to uni was thrust repeatedly down the throats of the top class and the two beneath. We even did projects on how anyone could go. We were a disappointment and a crisis if we didn't want to get a degree.) I also hate that old British Working Class mentality of preferring to stay poor and uneducated and hating those with more money, instead of getting educated and rising up in the world to be as successful and "The Toffs".

There was a time before the turn of the century when working class people would kill for an education to get them out of poverty. Then the "Them and Us" attitude began to set in and education became a matter of "betraying your own kind."

Urgh. I'm from a working class background but that kind of attiude I think was fading on my grandparents. Luckily my parents did value education, whether it was apprenticeships or uni.

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BrillsonHawk@reddit

It gets no better when you get to the workplace. People without degrees like to say how useless they are to everyone who will listen

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idontthinkipeeenough@reddit

Low key though my degree has turned out to useless -

So yet again. You miss the point! You’re in a decent finance job and getting paid!!

That’s what the point is!

GCSEs show potential and help guide your A-level choices they also show future HE and employment your natural academic aptitude. No one cares if you got a 9 in Art and a 5 in maths but a 7 in physics and a 8 in history. They care you have 7x7s for a good red brick uni and 8x8s for Oxbridge. The second your Alevel results come out they only care that you sat 8 GCSEs or more.

A levels are only an entrance exam for professional training or uni. Once you go to uni no one cares anymore!

A degree is the same it shows that you are capable of being trained. That’s what you got.

Now if you want to go into the best jobs at the top level then you should have read economics or law or accountancy etc. The degree is the minimum entry the ACA, CAIA, CIMA, FRM is when you move up.

Economics is hard to get a place at uni and hard to do well in. So those graduates are of course rewarded for their excellence. You could have chosen economics and if you were mathematically minded enough to do it then that’s because they are more suited than you. That’s life! They don’t let anyone read medicine or law etc either you need the best grades because the material is hard and finding minds that can absorb it is hard so they get paid more!

You aren’t unemployed, you have chance and you can sit exams it will just take you a few years longer. But you have a job and are getting paid. Do you know how many people would cut a body part off to earn 1/4 what you likely earn!

So you think people go the whole way through school and FE or HE and then are exactly the arm ages as you choose to work stacking shelves or flipping burgers? Decided to clean loos or work in fields. Was heir life ambition to wait tables in their 40s and 50s?

I suspect you need some perspective as you have already achieved more than some people will in their entire lives and your complaining about your lot. Go travel somewhere poor I mean really poor and then wonder how your life would be if you’d been born there and reflect on your position in life because you are wealthier than 85% of the world already.

Last year half the population of planet earth lived on less than $6.85 and 648 million live in extreme poverty ie <$2.15 per diem. So ten times the population of UK have no expectations of making it to next week for lack of running water or food. No one cares what their IQ or ability is. No one will likely ever know. Even though statistically some of those children will have 180 IQs and could be capable of inventing the cure for cancer or the common cold. We don’t even know if they’ll live past 5!

And you think life’s a a little unfair to those who don’t have degrees in economics?

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So yet again. You miss the point! You’re in a decent finance job and getting paid!!

That’s what the point is!

GCSEs show potential and help guide your A-level choices they also show future HE and employment your natural academic aptitude. No one cares if you got a 9 in Art and a 5 in maths but a 7 in physics and a 8 in history. They care you have 7x7s for a good red brick uni and 8x8s for Oxbridge. The second your A-level results come out they only care that you sat 8 GCSEs or more.

A levels are only an entrance exam for professional training or uni. Once you go to uni no one cares anymore!

A degree is the same it shows that you are capable of being trained. That’s what you got.

Now if you want to go into the best jobs at the top level then you should have read economics or law or accountancy etc. The degree is the minimum entry the ACA, CAIA, CIMA, FRM is when you move up.

Economics is hard to get a place at uni and hard to do well in. So those graduates are of course rewarded for their excellence. You could have chosen economics and if you were mathematically minded enough to do it then that’s great because they are more suited for those roles statistically it doesn’t mean you can’t you just have to fight harder.

That’s life! They don’t let anyone read medicine or law etc either you need the best grades because the material is hard and finding minds that can absorb it is hard so they get paid more!

You aren’t unemployed, you have chance and you can sit exams it will just take you a few years longer. But you have a job and are getting paid. Do you know how many people would cut a body part off to earn 1/4 what you likely earn!

So you think people go the whole way through school and FE or HE and then are exactly the arm ages as you choose to work stacking shelves or flipping burgers? Decided to clean loos or work in fields. Was heir life ambition to wait tables in their 40s and 50s?

I suspect you need some perspective as you have already achieved more than some people will in their entire lives and your complaining about your lot. Go travel somewhere poor I mean really poor and then wonder how your life would be if you’d been born there and reflect on your position in life because you are wealthier than 85% of the world already.

Last year half the population of planet earth lived on less than $6.85 and 648 million live in extreme poverty ie <$2.15 per diem. So ten times the population of UK have no expectations of making it to next week for lack of running water or food. No one cares what their IQ or ability is. No one will likely ever know. Even though statistically some of those children will have 180 IQs and could be capable of inventing the cure for cancer or the common cold. We don’t even know if they’ll live past 5!

And you think life’s a a little unfair to those who don’t have degrees in economics. I’d argue life is a little harder for a great many more people than you?

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NickEcommerce@reddit

I feel like part of the problem is the switch from polytechnics and apprenticeships (that provided a liveable wage). I did a marketing degree, and I could fit the entire 3 years into a 6 month course. There is no way I should have the same degree as my friends who studied engineering or mathematics or history.

A degree should be about either teaching you a rigorous and very detailed course load that prepares you to be an expert in your field after a few years of real-world experience, or it should prepare you to enter academia as a masters and then PhD student.

My degree got me past first round interviews, but a year or two working in a properly structured and accredited apprenticeship would have taught me just as much, without watering down the degrees of my friends who took more than 4 hours of lectures per week.

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PontiusThe-AV8Tor@reddit

If you think that university was just about learning and the piece of paper you missed some of the point. Graduates think, act and perform differently. Have had a lot do the silliness 18-21 yr olds bring to a workplace removed, have demonstrated numerous characteristics that are employable and needed for big boy and girl work and demonstrate an ability to absorb professional training in any field.

So yes of course the BEng course as an example is incredibly demanding in most unis and require many more hours work. But it encompasses a lot of vocational training like Law, medicine et al so that you can perform in a graduate role from the outset.

Just because they are harder doesn’t make yours worth less. Of course a degree in sociology is not the same as biochemistry or Civil engineering or medicine. Salaries of graduates who stick with that field are proof of that.

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PontiusThe-AV8Tor@reddit

If you think that university was just about learning and the piece of paper you missed some of the point. Graduates think, act and perform differently. They have had a lot of the silliness 18-21 yr olds bring to a workplace removed, have demonstrated numerous characteristics that are employable and needed for big boy and girl work and demonstrate an ability to absorb professional training in any field.

So yes of course the BEng course as an example is incredibly demanding in most unis and require many more hours work. But it encompasses a lot of vocational training like law, medicine et al so that you can perform in a graduate role from the outset.

Just because they are harder doesn’t make yours worth less. Of course a degree in sociology is not the same as biochemistry, neuroscience, cyber security, civil engineering or medicine. Salaries of graduates who stick within those fields are proof of that.

If you are a graduate mummy and daddy didn’t take you to school. You lived independently, paid bills, likely held a side job or so, whilst making friends in the wild. You weren’t force into groups as you all chose vastly differing fields of study, you played sports, took part in clubs or societies, turned up fed, clothed, washed yourself cooked for yourself fended for yourself. You did it in your own, you got up you went to the library you studied of your own back and you made deadlines and handed in complex prices of work having done research or conducting experiments. You used independent thought, made and defended arguments, parried and thought about contrary positions and then compared and contrasted them in writing in short and linger forms.

You also made mistakes, misjudge people, met different types of people from all backgrounds poor, wealthy, all ethnicities, all religions and all parts of the country and even world. You found limits you had never had, depths you didn’t know existed and expanded from being a person from town X into a citizen who understands their whole nation better. You also became a proper grown up ready to learn and contribute and be part of society.

If you think BA Literature, vs History vs Rocket Propulsion systems makes the difference you miss the point.

University is huge. If I ran an airline I would hire anyone who wasn’t a graduate for many many positions. I’m not unique.

If you’re finding your degree useless then you’re applying to the wrong jobs. That’s the same as trying to be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t want you. You are wanted and needed as a graduate. Look harder and further. If you have to go 5 hrs north or south to get a job then that’s what you do.

StatisticianOwn9953@reddit

No point in school

Always silly.

, and why you wanna go Uni anyway? For some useless degree?

I'm a secondary school teacher in a predominantly white working class/tradesman area. I see this EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

Every parents' evening, a dad will say, "Well, I left school with no GCSEs, and I did alright." As his orange daughter, whose decibel level is higher than her IQ, smirks into her latest iPhone screen as she taps away with giant nails. Then they'll clamber into his van or into his wife's white Range Rover and disappear into the tax-dodging, Tommy Robinson worshipping ether.

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TheSameYellow@reddit

Christ, the way you talk about your students, no wonder they don’t care about what you say. Even if you keep the words for Reddit the contempt must ooze out of you. What does a girl’s makeup and nails got to do with her intelligence?

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This is what I was going to say. There’s a huge number of parents out there who tell their children that school is a waste of time, that they should ignore teachers, etc. These kids then go on to be disruptive in class and to bully the ones who are actually trying to learn. When the teachers try to discipline the kids, the parents take offence at this.

When these kids grow up, they have the attitude that they don’t need to try at anything or work hard. And inevitably they resent those — especially immigrants — who have been brought up with the attitude that education and hard work are important if you want to better yourself.

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Rocinante23@reddit

Tall poppy syndrome

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MiddleEnglishMaffler@reddit

It's more a change I would make in English people.

To have respect, interest and to value the importance of learning other languages and how it can open so many doors to careers, entertainment, history knowledge, travel and just bettering oneself by having more ways to learn and educate oneself.

I see people from Germany, Austria, etc who learn a second language from primary school age as a standard and I envy them. I listen to Tirolean radio and hear songs in German, English, Italian and Spanish as a standard and think "English radio won't even play Welsh songs- you have to tune into Radio Cymru for that. "

There was a time when we English valued speaking a second language as a sign of education and skill. Now it's only those who naturally find interest on it who manage to grasp it only starting at the age of 11 at the earliest. And most parents don't give a crap to support them. It's really sad.

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tweaked9107@reddit

Drinking culture without a doubt. Every work event, every party, it all revolves around getting pissed.

I forget which comedian it was, but he's going on about how you go to a Piazza in Italy on a Friday night and there are families. Kids playing, parents having a glass of wine and a chat, work colleagues laughing a joke over one or two drinks. Here it's 8 pints as quick as possible, Sarah having a piss in the gutter and Dave smashing up a bus stop.

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Fair_Effect4532@reddit

This! Tbh I cannot stand that every get-together has to revolve around alcohol, drinking, going to the pub etc. Like you guys have nothing else to do when meeting up? I refuse to do that and people always have to come for a BBQ or home cooking if they want to see us and we also don’t meet up to go and sit in a pub, we go for a walk. Would love to know where this obsession with alcohol comes from

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tweaked9107@reddit

I remember reading that it started increasing around the 60's and 70's and just never really stopped. Not sure what the cause is, but I think half the problem is where else can you hang out as a group in the evening outside of a house? Pubs and bars are pretty much it.

In places like Italy people seem to eat a lot later and if they go out for dinner they spend a lot more time there - hang around after eating, nurse a glass of wine maybe. In France they have the cafe's that are open late etc. I don't that is all it is though. I remember being in Florence a few years ago in a Piazza where everyone was drinking, but they just seemed to be a bit tipsy. Everyone was having a good time, relaxed atmosphere, people dancing etc. No shouting, no fighting, no pissing in a gutter. Maybe us Brits just can't restrain ourselves.

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Confuseduseroo@reddit

This is what I came here to say.

Look at what happens when the pubs and clubs are shut:

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MixGroundbreaking622@reddit

Well... It's this surprising? Violent crime goes down when there is a nationwide lockdown and people aren't allowed outside... Shocker!

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doctorace@reddit

Whenever you do an actual activity, everyone can’t wait to be done with it so we can finally go to the pub! which was all anyone wanted to do in the first place.

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thorny_business@reddit

I wonder if the climate makes a difference. Our drinking culture emerged over centuries in which you'd work a long shift in a cotton mill then have to hammer as many pints as possible before the early closing time.

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mutlipleshots@reddit

Reminds me when I was living in Amsterdam and they got so pissed off of Brits’ infamous drinking infused mayhem that they launched a campaign https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65107405.amp

Training_Republic879@reddit (OP)

Alot of it is the media, if there biggest influences speak like that they imitate it because they want to belong. Same way people dress the same as their favorite bands and stuff.

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Lucky_Clerk_7909@reddit

Yeh but with this particular accent, the influences are (mostly) artists who promote getting rich by any means, including violence and killing people.

I'd rather not talk like those guys.

The fetishisation of misery. The insistence on being utterly miserable and then insisting others should be forced to suffer the same. Living standards have absolutely tanked in the past ten years because absolutely cynical and miserable cunts have become the most valuable swing voters.

If I can’t have that, the the conflation of politeness and virtue. Absolute monsters are operating in positions of power and influence and nobody can see it because they wear a nice suite, speak well and know how to hold a knife and fork.

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Tyst_Skog@reddit

All of this is 100% on the money. ✊🏽

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thorny_business@reddit

This sums up our attitude to air conditioning.

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Acrobatic-Pudding-87@reddit

I feel some of this goes back to WW2 propaganda to galvanize people during the bombing raids. The nation was taught to take pride in enduring suffering. The “We can take it” and “Come on Hitler, do your worst”messaging entered the national consciousness and now we almost take pride in putting up with shit. I can remember all through my childhood in the 90s hearing about the Blitz spirit and how the British people couldn’t be broken and blah blah. Even today we still see that meme about keeping quiet and carrying on. It’s become “the British way”. It’s almost a sin to be comfortable and happy and anyone who is isn’t being British enough.

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Cognitiveshadow1@reddit

You people don’t half talk some amount of shite man.

This is one of the most miserable subreddits on the site and in no way reflective of the public at large in this country.

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Hefty-Egg3406@reddit

I call the UK “misery island” because people seem to go out of their way to make it as miserable as possible. Like why keep voting for the austerity party who are giving the country nothing but lining their own pockets? Seems like masochism.

Also, it rains here (ok maybe not recently) but why not buy a proper raincoat and enjoy things… nope people want to sit in and complain that they can never go outside.

I go above and beyond to shame the utterly shameless.

This bizarre belief that has taken hold that we should be guided by our own individual happiness and we don’t owe anyone else anything or cannot expect anything from anyone else… like right… how exactly is society going to function while everyone is being a massively self-absorbed c*nt?

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Some parents are treating their kids as little gods. Pampered beyond belief, as an example our niece kept her kids off school to get their nails done because they were going on holiday.

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sah-oo-chay@reddit

I work with a guy who was telling me how this homeless guy supposedly just punched his 16 year son out of nowhere. The mum and dad then went hunting for said homeless guy to give him a kicking. I asked my colleague if he genuinely believed the homeless guy just lamped his balaclava wearing son out of nowhere or if he knew fine well his son was harassing the guy and he refused to accept there was any chance of that.

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thatsquidgy1@reddit

Hence the no responsibility.

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geordietaste@reddit

Stop the working population being trodden on by the rich, while also not having to prop up those people who, to quote Ned Flanders “those folks who don’t feel like working, bless ‘em”, while they end up with more benefit pay than those actually contributing to society

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ArtisticAbroad5616@reddit

To be kinder.

Did they sound like Gordon Ramsey?

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Went to Japan in March. It was immaculate, aside from Tokyo, but I guess that's because of all the tourists...

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Lunchy_Bunsworth@reddit

Victor Meldrew had an idea:

I’m lucky to be in a family who very much have the “the workers get paid to clean it up” mentality. When we’re out at restaurants and they leave the entire table a mess — glasses, bowls, serviettes, cutlery all over the place — it really makes me angry and is frankly just embarrassing. I will ALWAYS stay behind and passive aggressively clean up after them. 99% of the time the others around will see and sometimes thank me or compliment my good manners and custom.

A few months back, an older guy (maybe 60-70) even asked me if I wanted to join them for a drink afterwards, as a goodwill gesture, and then proceeded to lecture my parents when they wondered why I hadn’t yet left the building.

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Boroboy72@reddit

I used to do late night weekend security in Bath city centre not that long ago. Mcdonald's was open all night. No exaggeration, every sat/sun morning, there was an ankle deep carpet of rubbish covering the entire width of the street that stretched for 20 to 30 yards up the road. It was beyond sickening. Drunk kids/students would be sitting on benches within arms length of bins but would just throw their food/wrappers/drinks on the floor. By around 5 a.m., there would be in the region of 30 seagulls squabbling over it all. Absolutely disgraceful.

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Pleasant-Winner6311@reddit

💯 except I'm not sure if id like the draconian litter laws of Singapore, Thailand or mayalaisa. It be nice if caring was enough.

The speaking in riddles I still don’t get when it’s happening.

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Express_Profile_6084@reddit

Anti-business and playing it safe mentality.

Hefty-Egg3406@reddit

All of my friends are highly educated and they are absolutely also being manipulated by what they see on social media.

Far too many people love the old 'kids have always done this sort of thing trope', I can actually remember growing up and witnessing the decline as a teenager.

Travelling the world without bothering to learn a word of any other language is a great example of the problem with the British superiority mentality

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thorny_business@reddit

Are you supposed to spend three years learning a language for your two week holiday?

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Cwlcymro@reddit

"not a word"

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We are an exceptional country, and it holds us back to talk ourselves down and act like we're just another country that has to fall in line. I would struggle to name three countries that have contributed more to human civilisation.

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Personal_Lab_484@reddit

We are one of the main characters of the planets story. Which is undeniable. But rather than realise how we could use it to improve the country we just behave like dicks.

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thorny_business@reddit

We arguably have more in common with English-speaking former colonies than we do with European systems. Similar systems of government, legal systems, sports. Historically, Europe has been somewhere that has been invading us or dragging us into their wars.

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Thetonn@reddit

We also have multiple ex colonies that are doing better than us economically without having to be part of blocks like this.

Our default comparison is to Australia and New Zealand, who are doing pretty well on their own without the European Commission.

I think French politics would be very different if Algeria had regularly outperformed France on the economic front over the last few decades.

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FrauAmarylis@reddit

Better than the rest of the world.

It’s really sad, because nobody in any of the countries I’ve lived in has any respect for the UK.

They have PMs like BoJo and some random that was only in the office for a fortnight.

The entire island is smaller than a US lake, and everyone in London is wearing cowboy boots and New York gear.

It’s funny how Brits are the only ones not in on the joke.

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thorny_business@reddit

They have PMs like BoJo and some random that was only in the office for a fortnight.

I have some news for you about other countries.

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Euphoric-Newspaper18@reddit

You often hear that phrase in the UK, "but we don't want the French, the Germans and Brussels making our rules". What someone involved in TV should do is get a documentary series off the ground whereby citizens in the leading European nations would come and live here for 6 months and some Brits would go to live over there for 6 months. They,'d all be doing "run of the mill" type jobs. So, cleaners, careworkers, supermarket workers, etc. Then we'd see how each group get on. My impression is, but I may be wrong, is that here, people are being pretty "ripped off" and paying more for their basic needs.

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Acrobatic-Pudding-87@reddit

The world in general, not just Europe. We think there’s nothing the world can teach us, and god forbid that a good idea comes from a country we don’t like—that rules out the good idea forever.

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dm_me-your-butthole@reddit

give everyone a foot fetish

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Otherwise_Craft9003@reddit

The benefits welfare obsession fed by right wing mass media when the facts don't meet the feelings.

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Ok-Chest-7932@reddit

I'd install whatever mental activity lead to everyone wearing suits on a daily basis. Not because I like suits, but because the country would be a lot better off if everyone in it cared enough about the opinions of others that they might try to present themselves as smart and proper. You'd get all sorts of beneficial side-effects of this, such as not littering and not being obnoxiously drunk.

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What other solutions do you have to offer?

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ZX52@reddit

As I said in my OC, you go to talk to them. Be polite, be passive-aggressive, shame them, I don't care. But being slightly annoyed on a bus is not a good enough reason for someone to be arrested.

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AutisticElephant1999@reddit

Sorry, but CHOOSING to creating a public nuisance, especially after being told not to, is absolutely grounds for being arrested

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ZX52@reddit

And again, this is the exact authoritarian streak that I was talking about.

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Motor-Idea-7306@reddit

Football rage, especially towards women and people of colour.

"Domestic abuse soars by nearly 50 per cent after the England men's football team win a World Cup game". Key word, WIN.

I'm a (white as they come) carer, and the number of times I've been praised for being "so good with patients" when my primary qualification seems to be my skin colour is frightening.

steelcity91@reddit

I have a few but you said one thing. People sitting on their arses and complaining but not getting off their arse to do something about it.

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AutisticElephant1999@reddit

As a society we are far too tolerant of anti Social behaviour- especially if alcohol is involved (I think this ties into our nation’s problematic drinking culture which has already been mentioned in other comments)

Toxic nostalgia for an idealised past that never really existed. The past was full of disease, violence, prejudice and poverty.

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BeautyGoesToBenidorm@reddit

Rampant anti-Semitism. I'll never forget a Holocaust survivor, who lives near me, having bricks thrown at her windows and dog shit being pushed through her letterbox. Poor woman wouldn't harm a fly.

For the record, I'm also Jewish. My eldest son was attacked at school by a group of teens.

I'm just bloody sick of mindless violence.

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WGSMA@reddit

I’d want to get rid of the cultural ambition deficit

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leah_amelia@reddit

Understand that spending a time and money doing something now will help everyone in the long run. This country seems to have an aversion to long term thinking. Even when we do, it’s a nightmare half the time. HS2 would have a been a run of the mill project in most of Europe or China, but we ballsed it up massively

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Old-Ambassador-8143@reddit

Ban moaning, it’s our national sport, we moan about everything….including moaning tbf!

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Henegunt@reddit

Pretending we are somehow more racist or homophobic than any other country when in reality we are much less.

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prustage@reddit

Crabs in a bucket mentality.

This seems to be a constant aspect of the British working class. They are totally OK with there being Royals, Aristocracy, Upper classes. They are totally OK with being working class. But if you try and better yourself, get an education, acquire skills, develop new interests and get a good job they hate it. You are a "traitor to your class", getting above yourself", "forgetting your roots".

Work isn't the be all and end all.

Drivers: Move to the left on motorways.

Highways: don’t close motorways in massive lengths when you don’t need to. Stop turning the M20 into a lorry park. Quit with the miles and miles of 50 zones on motorways. When you advertise a workforce in the road, put a workforce in the road.

Just drove 340 miles so it’s all fresh in my head as to what needs to change.

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jono12132@reddit

I feel like we're very surface level friendly. Past a certain age people don't genuinely want to make friends. People don't care about you. I think we're quite asocial and I think it's one of the reasons we have such a drinking culture because it's the only way we can loosen up. I feel like I've been on so many nights out drinking where no one mixes with people they didn't already come with.

newterracota@reddit

That would be a contentious point outside reddit, depending on who you speak to.

You're comment reminded me of the glazing that the commentators have done for Wimbledon in the last 12 -14 days in regards to any celebrity sitting in the royal box (including members of the royal family). Instead of focusing on those playing on the court.

Kind of sums up British society in a nutshell, where we there is this expectation of having to respect those in a "higher class" than yourself.

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Acrobatic-Pudding-87@reddit

The complaining about everything but then opposing any idea to fix it. Talking over experts who actually understand the problems and have studied the solutions. Very common in local politics.

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Educational_Turn_582@reddit

Everyone needs to lighten the fuck up

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Head_Inevitable3255@reddit

Closed on Sunday.

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Sharktistic@reddit

I would give everyone in the UK a spine.

Everyone complains about this and that, everything from their pint being flat to the state of the government and social services, low wages, a broken NHS, appalling education at every level, and countless other huge issues...

No one ever does anything about it. No one speaks up for fear of offending someone else. The only people who actually make themselves heard are the ones who want the UK to be an entirely isolated nation with a population consisting of one colour: gammon pink.

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WVA1999@reddit

Not being lazy as fuck and driving everywhere. People seem unaware that they have legs, that can, you know, enable movement.

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_a_m_s_m@reddit

Especially, using those legs to cycle, with a set of pannier bags & a rack it can enable a trip to the shops & be anywhere from 2-5 times the speed of walking.

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Valuable_Ad9554@reddit

More discipline, pride and self respect, a la Japan vibes

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SignificanceOld1751@reddit

Probably a sense of civic pride.

We just seem resigned to our neighbourhoods being shite

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LopsidedTank57@reddit

Change the propensity for harm avoidance. Where you're rightfully annoyed at someone, but you don't want to express it because you don't want to come across as unreasonable or possibly upset the other party.

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OK_Cake05@reddit

People are kind enough; ask people how they are when greeting and people are stunned that I ask. The race to the bottom, every one must suffer, criticise ambition attitude

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EUskeptik@reddit

I would reverse the UK’s anti-education culture.

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MiddleAgeCool@reddit

The obsession that we need to return to the good old days. I'm the wrong side of 50 and right now, the UK is the best it's been in my lifetime.

We haven't got rolling blackouts.,

We haven't got national strikes and hundreds of families receiving zero money for a year; no wages or benefits.

We haven't got towns with over 40% unemployment rates.

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_a_m_s_m@reddit

Lack of imagination & unwillingness to change. Case studies: High speed rail, pedestrianisation proposals, cycle lanes, trams, LTN’s etc.

I’ve had the chance to travel & seeing all these things in real life that so many in the UK would sneer at & say are impossible & would “never work here”. Of course until it does.

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planetwords@reddit

I would like everyone to please return to respecting and trusting experts, and their learned considered experienced nuanced educated opinions instead of the average person just reading the Daily Mail and 'making their own mind up'.

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irishmickguard@reddit

The flagellating self hatred of the middle class. Lost count of how many people ive seen acting like they are personally responsible for colonial Britain and apologising for stuff their parents weren't even alive for.

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Fake_Disciple@reddit

The need to moan about everything and want the earth to handed to us when we don’t give shit back. I saw a post of someone created a change petition for the TfL to do someone about people using their loudspeaker to make phone calls or blaring TikTok to me this is peak entitlement as this is such a non issue their is bigger issues in London and they want strain a already thin stretched TfL to do something

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Dommccabe@reddit

That the working class stop worshiping the elite and the Royals.

They are all greedy parasites.. we are a wealthy country, generally speaking, so nobody should be homeless or hungry or lacking education opportunities.

Abundance mentality.

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gentlepersuasion420@reddit

Expel the criminal symphasiers. You know the sort that shrug off all sorts of wrong doing and criminality and tell the police to go after the 'real' criminals.

You can be quietly confident.

Have found those who are modest/ willing to admit when they don’t know something are often far more intelligent than the boasty loudmouths.

The bitterness lots of people have towards the disabled, foreign people, trans people, anyone who strikes and any other group the Telegraph or Daily Mail tell them they have to hate.

DiscoReads@reddit

Drinking culture(!) - majority of the UK normalises casual alcoholism as a way to fundamentally cope with the terrible handling of the economic and healthcare system.

Alongside the glorification of being a ‘workaholic’…

ResplendentBear@reddit

Healthier drinking culture. Get rid of the inconsiderate drinkers.

It's the people who drink daily until they become a problem, the people in Wetherspoons with a pint at breakfast (but no food), and the people smashed on the train when everyone's just trying to get home from work at 6pm.

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