[galvanist]

Yes, let's look to the British to tell us how a country should keep to its borders, handle international relations, balance domestic surveillance/privacy concerns, run fair and impartial international trials, and teach us about India.

[mayanksinghal]

If you are from US, then you might as well because present UK at least seems less imperialistic. However, this could be simply because it wields less power than it did in past centuries.

[w_t_payne]

Well, I guess power corrupts etc... etc...

Although, as far as the UK is concerned, I have noticed that once Brits leave the island, the preponderance of their liberalism and tolerance seems to evaporate, leaving only an unpleasant core of xenophobia and bigotry. Or perhaps that is just some sort of self-selection / sampling bias, driven by the sort of people who tend to head off into the wide open yonder?

[Nursie]

British ex-pats are famous for it for some reason.

I don't think it's all of them (I'd say us but I returned to the motherland a while back), just the ones you notice.