Island mentality ...There are two fundamentally different types of mentality: continental and insular.Island mentality is different from the continental self-sufficiency. This is understandable - if the continent is what you do not have, you can take the neighbors behind the fence (give or take away themselves - this is a subject other), and you are sure that the world - is stable inexhaustible land, and you guys up front time to master it, then when you're on the island, you have something that is on your island. The rest - the water. You live in a bright, but not for long. So you think that your island - is the whole world. And your world - small and fragile. And you build it according to your ideas about the world. On the island everyone knows each other, so hello. On the island of help from a neighbor - a vital necessity, for her to wait over nowhere, so the neighbors should be the relationship or good or positive neutrality. On your island - you yourself are a Creator, and so merciful to tvaryushki inhabit it, for this food, and Society: -). On the island you honor traditions and laws, because he himself had created them, knowing why and why.What makes you leave your island? Or marginality (you do not quite fit into the company for some reason), or a desire to expand its universe (you yourself created it, look how cool happened, why not expand?) - No wonder Britain ruled the world ...However, being an islander, you'll always be his, island residents - even away from him. Therefore Englishman - Her Majesty's subjects in any country of the world, even if he was not at home for decades. )) ...Islanders is your island with you - in the shower - and therefore self-sufficient, but not alone. His island is always with him.Self-sufficiency of the islanders so attractive that many try to imitate her ... Islander - as a carrier and creator of his own universe - is more like God than the continental mass copies of the Creator (in my opinion, of course). He - the product manual assembly, and for the settlement of the continents probably already applied stamping)). Therefore, from the islanders often wait revelations and support other mortals - and often are. And so, by the way, "never, never, never an Englishman would not be a slave!" (The words of the anthem of the United Kingdom).... Escapist, first of all, freedom. They are looking for your whole life island that just need them to realize their self-sufficiency. And some find. Sometimes, somewhere far away, and sometimes - literally without leaving home. Escapist is easy to learn - it draws its separate you and you always know exactly what he will never belong to you. Because it belongs only to his island: -)