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> it's been authoritarian, chauvinistic (both internationally with imperialism and domestically via the aristocracy), and theocratic, ever since Harold Godwinson

This. The UK was a band of feudal kingdoms that somehow managed to create an overseas empire. The empire is now gone, and the feudal kingdom is struggling to transform itself into a modern nation.

>>hnfong+(OP)
Everywhere was a band of feudal kingdoms. What’s so special about the U.K.?

>>jahews+98
Everywhere else transformed, whereas the British elite (in the power sense, not the skill sense) still seem to be proud of their feudal heritage.

>>ben_w+k9
Everybody has their station in life in the UK. Something like that?