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Stay Weird, Britain

A Point of View

CHAPTER

The World's Lingua Franca

On average, every sixth person you meet in the UK was born somewhere else. I think we differ from those other countries in another way. They accept difference, but they don't much like it. We do. In France, women wearing the burqa can be forced to remove it by police. Americans don't mind difference as long as you keep it in your own backyard.

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