As I grew up I understood exactly the English view of the world and at the same time saw how profoundly mistaken it is.
I was regarded as feckless and lazy when I simply could not relate to the society I was in.
In my time in the Lower Sixth form I remember thinking that basically the Anglo-American world was destroying everything of any value in the world.
2 years later the Gulf "War" happened and the victory parade was on my birthday.