This is a big thing - you don't get the vicarious embarrassment that 'these are my people talking this shit'. It works with politics too, I think. I would have had a coronary by now if I lived in the UK. Here, I can get pissed off by the PP but it doesn't induce a screaming fit. Even Vox are merely the source of anger, rather than an incandescent meltdown.

Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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