Joao Magueijo on the "unrestrained" English

As others see us!

"Unrestrained wild beasts, totally out of control".

The Sunday Times (14 September) carried an article on the Portuguese professor's new book on the English, British culture, society and lifestyle. Not flattering.

So did the Mail:

"A best-selling book written by a Portuguese academic has offered a dismal portrayal of English people, calling them 'unrestrained wild beasts who eat food so greasy it needs detergent'.

Joao Magueijo, 47, a physics professor at Imperial College London, has seen his book, Bifes Mal Passados (Undercooked Beef) sell more than 20,000 copies in his native country".

Update, The Guardian

Reminds me of what the Corfiot Nicander Nucius observed back in the mid sixteenth century.

Nucius (Nikandros Noukios), the Corfiot traveller, visited England in 1545 and 1546.

“The race of men indeed is fair, inclining to a light colour; in their persons they are tall and erect; the hair of their beard and head is of a golden hue; their eyes blue, for the most part, and their cheeks are ruddy; they are martial and valorous, and generally tall; flesh-eaters, and insatiable of animal food; sottish and unrestrained in their appetites; full of suspicion.”