"...Is it just the British who pretend ..."
..we all know that british nation today consists of people of tens nationalities, including indians, chinese, philippines, arabs, etc., and plus there are sooooooooo many tourists and visitors in london, so may be 10% of people around were from your country, 10% from my country, 10 % - from somebody's else country... It's not about NATIONALITY (can all understand it and stop generalize lebanese, syrians, egyptians, philippines, canadians or british??)!

…it is just so sad!