I think the difference is British people don't go to the nations of those counties invaded during the appeasement program that Chamberlain supported, and tell them they should be grateful for it.
Are you kidding, NYC's the last vestige of small town America - no malls or big box stores, just mom & pop businesses and everyone knows their neighbors.
Anyway, we've got so many minorities, labor unions and diverse interest groups clamoring for attention, we tend to elect Republicans for mayor, just to keep a lid on all the other crazy guys.
Especially since ww1 was fresh in their minds, who wanted to fight another 1.
and I think chamberlain was right to try to avoid war if he could, but he made a mistke in letting it go when the sign came that hitler didn't care about promises.
America was late to the war and it turned out to be very profitable. If there was cowardice involved then it was political. Either way if the world had acted sooner the war wouldn't have been half as bad as it was. But the world didn't act sooner and now it's all history.
Are you talking about the Bradford riots. I saw the movie about that. made me feel bad for the pakistani girl who was treated like **** by her coworkers just because she was pakistani and some of her people were rioting.
How's that? The riots overall were a massive mix of groups and people... aside from the fact that hundreds of them wore hoodies and you couldn't tell where they were from. Silly. You should have stepped up to bat for her and put your coworkers in their place.
Only part of the problem. Don't forget vast corporate greed centered around the "bundled" toxic mortgage securities that everyone believed could only go up in value, along with the US real estate market.
The cause was greed at all levels, under Bush's watch, abetted by deregulation of banks.
From Wikipedia:
The crisis can be attributed to a number of factors pervasive in both housing and credit markets, factors which emerged over a number of years. Causes proposed include the inability of homeowners to make their mortgage payments (due primarily to adjustable-rate mortgages resetting, borrowers overextending, predatory lending, and speculation), overbuilding during the boom period, risky mortgage products, high personal and corporate debt levels, financial products that distributed and perhaps concealed the risk of mortgage default, bad monetary and housing policies, international trade imbalances, and inappropriate government regulation.[36][37][38][39] Three important catalysts of the subprime crisis were the influx of moneys from the private sector, the banks entering into the mortgage bond market and the predatory lending practices of the mortgage lenders, specifically the adjustable-rate mortgage, 2–28 loan, that mortgage lenders sold directly or indirectly via mortgage brokers.[40] On Wall Street and in the financial industry, moral hazard lay at the core of many of the causes.[41]