Are Americans really an different to us?
Apr 9th 2009, 11:47 pm
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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Or are you just taking the pi$$
Apr 9th 2009, 11:51 pm
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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
It's the people who go round in a group and try to squash anyone who points out something they don't like about their country who are trying to set indirect rules on their own
It's natural for immigrated Brits on BE to say what their likes and dislikes are - I just down think they should be howled down by the same band of americans that's all
Apr 9th 2009, 11:56 pm
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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
This town is 45% Latino and I love it. The way they hold themselves and talk is so Spanish and dignified. My wife teaches them English voluntarily and I feel so at ease with them
I have never been to Mexico, but I suspect they must have absorbed the European culture there and it has been handed down
The US has made a concious effort to differentiate itself in every way from England and that shows too
Apr 9th 2009, 11:57 pm
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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
The one supplied looks like a baby.
Apr 10th 2009, 12:04 am
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Apr 10th 2009, 1:21 am
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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
Think of it as a girlie night out or a boys booze up - these groups like to be alone and to talk about the other lot sometimes
Or is that too PC and it doesn't happen in america ?
Yes people of all nationalities welcome as long as they don't become oppressive in squashing opinion of other nationals with heavy handedness and banding together an sending PM's to each other or to people who might support a poster against their wishes
1st amendment and all that you know
It's obvious to everyone by now that americans are incredibly sensitive to perceived slights against their country, and it deters the flow of people's experiences
Perhaps thats the biggest difference of all - Britons come from a quietly assured country whose long history has worked out many questions, whereas the US is a new born and still trying to find it's self image
Nothing more prickly making than a sense of insecurity
Britain had its civil war before the US
We had our bill of rights before the US
We had votes for women before the US
We banned slavery before the US
We had a woman head of government before the US
We halted public executions before the US
etc etc etc etc etc
The US is still finding its way as society and so the Brits should make allowances I suppose and compliment them all the time for what they have achieved in the way that we only compliment children and we don't point out their failures
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Or is that too PC and it doesn't happen in america ?
Yes people of all nationalities welcome as long as they don't become oppressive in squashing opinion of other nationals with heavy handedness and banding together an sending PM's to each other or to people who might support a poster against their wishes
1st amendment and all that you know
It's obvious to everyone by now that americans are incredibly sensitive to perceived slights against their country, and it deters the flow of people's experiences
Perhaps thats the biggest difference of all - Britons come from a quietly assured country whose long history has worked out many questions, whereas the US is a new born and still trying to find it's self image
Nothing more prickly making than a sense of insecurity
Britain had its civil war before the US
We had our bill of rights before the US
We had votes for women before the US
We banned slavery before the US
We had a woman head of government before the US
We halted public executions before the US
etc etc etc etc etc
The US is still finding its way as society and so the Brits should make allowances I suppose and compliment them all the time for what they have achieved in the way that we only compliment children and we don't point out their failures
...
If you speak to Americans about what you find lacking here, in the same tone that you write with here, no wonder you think all Americans can't take criticisms of the government. I find many faults with my country and am open to discussing them, but I wouldn't tolerate the insults that you spew forth. If you spoke to me with the same condescending tone you have here, I would have bitch-slapped you into the middle of next week.
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Apr 10th 2009, 1:29 am
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Re: Are Americans really an different to us?
I promise not to ask you about the British school system, etc. this time. We can discuss the knowledge we wish we had now that we will have when we're 70 instead. Or existentialism. 