“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.”
“Snobbishness of the population: servility towards the aristocracy”
Very prescient, as usual, Lenin!
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Australia: cowboy british
New Zealand: Boer British
Even the “Sir” thing is true nowadays?
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Servile indeed!
It’s as if they made an entire country out of the most insufferable parts of Wahroonga and the Southern Highlands.
Kiwi_Owl
Explains a lot
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