"American culture and British culture are now almost one and the same things." [From 4:37]
That's the British Right's biggest mistake right there.
We are not American, and Americans are not "Brits abroad". So much flows out of this flawed belief.
https://youtu.be/HauN61a10ig?si=JSiYqAbYGbwqbnnJ&t=277
That's the British Right's biggest mistake right there.
We are not American, and Americans are not "Brits abroad". So much flows out of this flawed belief.
https://youtu.be/HauN61a10ig?si=JSiYqAbYGbwqbnnJ&t=277
Comments
Greenland is just the rehearsal.
Exactly what happened in Russia post-Soviet Union.
It's incoming.
The old phrase “two cultures separated by the English language” completely passed him by didn’t it.
All that money wasted on his education.
strong agree !!
I was pleasantly surprised to discover how many written and spoken words I could instantly recognise from her language.
The God and guns shit alone makes this a very different place.
Then I'll go and harass people at an abortion clinic before worshipping at the altar of the orange Jesus.
Garage has spent far too much time with Lettuce and the Magas.
See also.many in the Tory party.
The closest country culturally to the UK is France, because it is next door our cultures have mixed for centuries.
Albeit Apple Pie is certainly British in origin, which has a certain irony, does it not?
But of course, the south and west of England is closer to France, north and east Denmark, Germany, and NL, Scotland has links to Ireland and Denmark.
And in France the south is often closer culturally to IT and ES than Paris.
* Including the Dutch and Danes. Kind of Anglo-Saxon, one might say.
Also both England and France have a distinct Celtic substrate in culture the neighbours don't have, folklore, traditions.
A lot though depends where you are