rkest days of World War II(p.84, Snowman). Heroes that kept their nerve go back to the days of the chivalrous knight in armor that charged unflinchingly at an opponent. The terms unflappable, private, elite, non-intrusive, and indifferent are used to describe the British because they themselves at one time wished to project that image to the outside world.Voltaire states that a prejudice is an opinion without judgement. Thus all over the world do people inspire children with all the opinions they desire, before the children can judge. People hear things from others, but they do not receive first hand experiences that travel offers. Often this is because of cost, lack of interest, and fear. Ours is a society where the children grow up with their parents telling them that there is an Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and a God. When they are told that British people are stiff, horribly snobbish people, why should the children not believe it? If your nurse has told you that Cerces rules over the crops, or that Vishnu and Xaca made themselves men several times, or that Sammonocodom came to cut down a forest, or that Odin awaits you in his hall near Jutland, or that Mohammed or somebody else made a journey into the sky; if lastly your tutor comes to drive into your brain what your nurse has imprinted on it, you keep it for life(Voltaire).In a clinical test in 1962 on stereotypes in the British-Journal-of-Psychology it was discovered that the factors of insufficient intelligence, neuroticism, and social anxiety cause the effect of stereotyping. It is a natural process for humans to make themselves important by putting down another individual or group. The whole infrastructure of Britain is made of groups who take joy in looking down on one another; a classical example of this is the class system. David Frost and Antony Jay speak of the common English man and how his life is pushed around. There has never been so much running of things, ...
