>I think that there is a strong current of largely
>unconscious national chauvinism, bordering on xenophobia, in the mainstream
>US left.
>These chauvinist sentiments also sometimes
>take the form of a thinly-disguised but very specific anti-British feeling,
'Look not to the mote in thy neighbour's eye, but to the beam in thine own'
Ostentatious protests against 'American chauvinism' here a stand-in for English (or Welsh, presumably) chauvinism. -- Jim heartfield