she lowered her voice

as we were talking about not the very best parts of the aspects we associate with britishness. feeling of guilt the uncontrollable outrage, despair felt due to this inability to understand, grasp this new set of attitutes, behaviours, habits that is mis-directed to the people, to locals. because it is not easy to accept the failure of knowing, understanding, the (sometimes) unbreachable gap between the strange and familiar and the feeling that you are always going to be a stranger