Sosiologismus wrote:
UK/England seems to have a big problem with those things, I very often hear about truly awful incidents in that country, like it's a social hellhole. Some time ago I heard about some bullies attacking a girl who was walking her dog, scratching up her face with a knife and torturing her dog in front of her. There was also gypsy concentration-like camps ++. When I was in Newcastle some idiot rammed my shoulder and continued walking while laughing and not even looking back.. Haha.. And I was a tourist. So stupid.
Which is why our crime rates are so much higher than yours... oh wait.
The difference between the UK and the US in this regard is that we have a very effective national tabloid press who can fill hundreds of pages a year with "broken Britain" stories. Our stories get more coverage than yours, particularly the ones that don't make great TV (you seem to have many more TV news networks than we do).
And yes, Dox was being sarcastic.
I'm Norwegian, so that's invalid. Compared to the UK, you have a much much higher crime rate. And the news about broken Britain is newsworthy, it would make headlines if it happened in this country. I don't know about the US in this case, there may be gray areas afaik..