In a book describing his experiences of living
in the UK a Portuguese academic based at Imperial College London has
some strong words about British culture, the Daily Telegraph
has reported. In the book he describes English culture as
“pathologically violent” and criticises British boozing and
uncleanliness. 
"When you visit English homes, or the toilets at schools or in
student lodgings, they are all so disgusting that even my grandmother's
poultry cage is cleaner," Magueijo writes.
Magueijo’s book is
called “Bifes Mal Passados” which means “uncooked beef” and it has so
far sold 20,000 copies in Portugal. There are no plans as yet to
translate it from Portuguese in to English. The cover of the book shows a
picture of man wearing a bowler hat standing in front of Big Ben.
- As well as having poor standards of hygiene, Magueijo says the English are “always fighting."
- "I have never met such a group of animals. English culture is pathologically violent” he writes.
He
is also alarmed by the amount that the British drink – telling an
anecdote from his time as an academic at the University of Cambridge
where he saw a female student vomit at a dinner and then carry on “as if
nothing had happened.”
"It is not unusual to drink 12 pints, or
two huge buckets of beer, per person," he writes. "Even a horse would
get drunk with this but in England it is standard practice.”
Magueijo, who is a cosmologist and professor in theoretical physics at Imperial, has told the Sunday Times that his book will not cause too much offense saying: “I do not fear any backlash. I trust the British sense of humour.”
The Independent
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