How have you been treated here as a Brit?
May 11th 2014, 10:48 pm
#241
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
Some states in USA are made this way ... other i suppose are not... on top of this I m tall blond slim so is my husband sometimes they think we are germans... lol. sorry about my dyslexia it takes a lot of effort to write this message
May 11th 2014, 11:02 pm
#242
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
Sorry about your dyslexia issue, I did not mean to be insensitive.
The US is a very diverse place and for the most part it has nothing in common about people setting up little England's everywhere since the 17th and 18th centuries. The number of people of English ancestry in the USA is way behind the numbers of German, Mexican, African and even Irish ancestry; and on St. Patricks Day I think the number of Irish quadruples.
The US is a very diverse place and for the most part it has nothing in common about people setting up little England's everywhere since the 17th and 18th centuries. The number of people of English ancestry in the USA is way behind the numbers of German, Mexican, African and even Irish ancestry; and on St. Patricks Day I think the number of Irish quadruples.
May 12th 2014, 12:51 am
#244
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
.... Having English ancestors us just apparently not "interesting". 
Last edited by Pulaski; May 12th 2014 at 1:01 am.
May 12th 2014, 2:01 am
#245
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
).The people are, for the most part, arseholes who drive like *****. The whole 'loving everything British' part is true; I'm glad we don't feel the same way towards their country.
May 12th 2014, 2:17 am
#246
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
I suspect you are wrong, or at least not as right as you think you are because many of the early settlers were British, and their descendants increased in number over the generations, when families of eight or ten children, or more were commonplace.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf
This is the 2000 data, the 2010 data puts English Ancestry even further down the list.
http://www.businessinsider.com/large...america-2013-8
May 12th 2014, 1:54 pm
#247
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
I might well be and every one can probably claim multiple ancestries but I am talking about what people answer during a census for First Ancestry. Check the Census Bureau figures...
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf
This is the 2000 data, the 2010 data puts English Ancestry even further down the list.
http://www.businessinsider.com/large...america-2013-8
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf
This is the 2000 data, the 2010 data puts English Ancestry even further down the list.
http://www.businessinsider.com/large...america-2013-8
The number of people who reported English ancestry decreased by at least 20 million since the 1980 U.S. Census, partly because more citizens of English descent have started to list themselves as "American."
May 12th 2014, 2:04 pm
#248
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May 12th 2014, 2:48 pm
#249
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
I might well be and every one can probably claim multiple ancestries but I am talking about what people answer during a census for First Ancestry. Check the Census Bureau figures...
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf
This is the 2000 data, the 2010 data puts English Ancestry even further down the list.
http://www.businessinsider.com/large...america-2013-8
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf
This is the 2000 data, the 2010 data puts English Ancestry even further down the list.
http://www.businessinsider.com/large...america-2013-8
And anyhow it is a fairly well known issue that anyone descended from the black slave population in the US has a fairly good chance of having inherited a few genes from the plantation owner.
A study of genetic make-up would be more informative than merely what people put on the census form!
May 12th 2014, 10:54 pm
#250
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
If that's the best source of data for your assertion I am definitely calling BS on it.
May 13th 2014, 4:29 pm
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
When I make the move I'm hoping I can use my accent to my advantage to make new friends, and of course, be more attractive to the ladies! 
fingers crossed 
fingers crossed
May 13th 2014, 4:53 pm
#252
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
American girls love the British accent. Honestly, you could bed women just based on your accent alone in some parts i've visited.
May 13th 2014, 5:06 pm
#253
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
I split up with a very attractive and intelligent girl because she didn't want to move with me, so I need to make up for it over there! 
May 13th 2014, 5:08 pm
#254
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Re: How have you been treated here as a Brit?
I'm starting to feel nauseous . . .
