Also, tho, I gotta say that there were definitely places in Britain that DIDN’T have much exposure to foreigners and people who didn’t look/talk like them because re: Hartlepool in the North East of England, there’s a (maybe apocryphal, maybe not) story about how, during the Napoleonic wars, a French ship wrecked there and the people of Hartlepool found no one alive, save for the ship’s pet chimpanzee who was dressed in a uniform, and they thought he was a French person and they hanged him for that. In the North East, people from Hartlepool are still referred to as ‘monkey hangers’ to this day and I think their football team is monkey themed.
Their mascot is named H’angus the Monkey. One of the official mascots, a man named Stuard Drummond, was dismissed for sexual harassment while wearing the costume, and later successfully ran for mayor of Hartlepool on a platform of ‘free bananas for all’. He’s been re-elected twice.
REALLY HATE
British xenophobia is an amazing thing to behold.
Jon-Erik Hexum in Voyagers! (1982), “Buffalo Bill and Annie Play the Palace”
Great! I have an indistinct map of Britain & some France. Kind of like looking at my navel.
Jon-Erik Hexum in Voyagers! (1982), “Buffalo Bill and Annie Play the Palace”
Great! I have an indistinct map of Britain & some France. Kind of like looking at my navel.