Re: All Things Ransome - out of date images


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Posted by Adam Quinan on October 23, 2006 at 02:05:34 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.

In Reply to: All Things Ransome - out of date images posted by Ed Kiser on October 22, 2006 at 21:28:17:

This small sample of overseas TARS member is also not particularly typical. Like Ed my image of Britain is frozen in time like a perch in ice. I left the UK in 1982 and although I made frequent return trips over the years, I have come to the realisation that I am definitely a foreigner now.

I am reminded of a Toronto radio show that was still being broadcast in the early 1980s when I first arived. It was presented by an expatriate Briton who had come to Canada in the 1950s I believe. Anyway, he and his target audience were obviously people who had left Britain in the 1940s, '50s and very early '60s when British immigration to Canada was much greater than it has been since. Their concept of Britain and British culture had stopped before the late 1960s and 70s when I was growing up and becoming an adult. I found its old-fashioned sense of Britishness both weird and touching. Now I am like them.

British life in the early 21st century is quite distinct from the 1930s or 1970s. I can understand how the Britain of the 1930s works because I was brought up in its aftermath and it is my parents' generation's experience so I learned about it from them and my grandparents. The 2000s are a foreign land.


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