Nutek

A mix of Brit and USA for me... Chocolate Digestives go well with Dunkin Donuts coffee.

I wish I could find a transport solution for Custard Slices though.

CAdreaming

CAdreaming

Had one last night from Morrisons!!!

CAdreaming

me to!! Ive downloaded a curreny convertor!!! I need to know the £ equiv! Will this go I wonder!

Does saying something is "cute" and loving half and half mean Ive assimilated?? If so then yep I have!

Nutek

I was in the UK a week or so ago and was trying to figure out if I could carry a box of Custard Slices on the plane with me. They dont really hold up well to 8 hours in a suitcase.

SarahG

Yes I have taken up some 'Americanisms' and have kept some Britishness about me. Why move somewhere and not adapt in even the smallest way? (I have not lived in my country of birth, Scotland, for half of my life so far) When I lived in Northampton I got so fed up with people complaining about immigrants who were not adapting to the English culture. Yes you want to keep a bit of your identity from your home country but you also must accept the culture and traditions of the new county you are living in. I will note that some of our 'friends' that complained about immigrants in Northampton NOT adapting to become more English were the same people who complained about me and my husband becoming 'all American' sounding on the phone/twitter/facebook etc. Some people just puzzle me.

Uncle Ebenezer

How do you feel about moslem immigrants in the UK, who think they should be allowed to keep their own culture and not assimilate?

SultanOfSwing

I honestly haven't given it much thought, to be honest with you. However, if nobody's forcing the British born pikeys to conform to British culture, can we really impose it on immigrants?

Anyway, how much harm is hating silly games like hand-egg and retaining British pronounciations and spellings doing anyway?

markwm

If points could be awarded for posts that would get the maximum.

Uncle Ebenezer

I was just equating your "bollocks to that" attitude, with the moslems in the UK, who believe they should be able to retain their own culture, reject all UK ways and laws and practice sharia law. Their attitude is pretty much "bollocks to that" - albeit in farsi, or whatever language they speak.

Brucky

I prefer the early kick off's with the time difference. It helps me free up the rest of the day

Earliest for me has been games at 7am.

markwm

I love being here and don't miss the UK at all. However, I am still British - not much I can do to change that and I wouldn't want to. I don't watch or miss UK tellie though I still get my news from the BBC and (hangs head in shame) have a quick glance at the Daily Mail to get my blood pressure up.

It is odd being the foreigner and the immigrant but it doesn't matter where you live, you get up and go to work, just like everyone else. Everything becomes normal after a while: better to embrace it than fight it.

SultanOfSwing

I almost want to look up what the Farsi for bollocks is now ...

The main difference was a high dosage of flippancy on my part though. In reality what does 'assimilation' boil down to here anyway? My 'bollocks to that' attitude is in regards to the fact that I'm not going to pretend to like football, Miller Lite and that kind of stuff just to 'fit in'. Anyone who is a proper mate here accepts my Britishness as an eccentricity and we all get on just fine.

In the same way, if we do end up moving back to Norn Irn, I'd not expect my wife and son to completely forget who they are either. I'm not going to start stuffing currys down her throat or expect her to suddenly start drinking Guinness

Ultimately we're talking about minor cultural differences and a bit of a difference in dialect really (and I realise this is way, way beyond what you were getting at).

Uncle Ebenezer

Liar.

SultanOfSwing

My wife doesn't drink.