The attitudes left over from Section 28 – the legislation implemented by Margaret Thatcher in 1988 forbidding the "promotion of homosexuality" in schools – still lingers like the smell of poppers in a Vauxhall club on a Sunday morning.
I have personally witnessed this evolution towards the Travel 3.0 attitude over the last decade while serving as the Event Director of The Global Scavenger Hunt.
The changes in the public's attitude over the past month, even if not huge, suggest one reason Mr. Obama sought so hard to get Congress to vote on some version of an overhaul before heading home.
But in this they are simply taking over the attitude of traditional religious believers in Britain, who also reject the official teachings of their churches.
"The attitude by Germany over the financial crisis has reopened old wounds.
"The monks have the attitude, 'I am over the law,' " said Teunchai Noochdumrong, the director of Thailand's Wildlife Conservation Office.
"I know that my committee was very, very upset by the attitude the prime minister took over cannabis.
There were some who argued that, after the proceedings at Uno, the tour should have been cancelled in order to register disapproval the Union's attitude over South-West Africa and the Indians.
You have seen the foreign media's attitude over the Gezi Park events, how quickly they bought into it and how quickly and widely they started broadcasting before any assessment was made," he said.
On reflection, we can see that we ought to blame the racists only for their actions or omissions, not for the attitudes themselves over which they have no control.
