reverse-anthropology

perhaps the europens conducted anthropological studies on the Amazonian tribes, niche pockets of a quirky corporation ethics - perhaps... but when one european looks at another european, and conducts his own anthropological study? who says i'm not conducting an anthropological study of the English - who are more deluded as islanders than the fucking Icelandic people, with regard to shared roots... traveled the world a bit too much... brought back the elgin marbles and several minor mummies... but then... the Pakistani rape gangs... whoop whoop! choo choo! train a' coming. what? reality is not some brick wall you get to impose with what 19th century romanticism movement was... a bout of nostalgia... to me? the english are... collectively solipsistic - esp. in the south, i'm sure it's different in the north... but the southern english? a strange breed of ego-bloating - megalomania, collective solipsism, a shogun complex... solipsism? just a fancy word for autism... i've seen flies congregating on a turd appearing more sociable than these people... an englishman's home is his castle... yet when i own a castle... they think i live in their castle's dungeon, rather than my own home.... weird people... truly odd... i'm pretty sure the english didn't expect a covert anthropological study to be taking place, from behind a velvety almost see-through curtain... it's not like they have much to feel proud about... perhaps the minor instances of selected sports at the olympics... and all of this based on one example, but of course, outside the proximity, there's the multiplication factor, i.e. it's most likely replicable elsewhere... perhaps not football... but anthropology is certainly coming home.

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