- 10 Sep 2012 10:23
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Most Europeans do not hate Americans individually. They are annoyed by the US liberalism and fear Americanisation. They do not want to adopt the worst aspects of the US culture. Those who like America and its culture tend to be Americanised and like to visit the US. A lot of Britain is extremely Americanised to the point where there is almost no real cultural difference between the US and England today. In the 1980s there still were big difference between England and America but by today England shares the same mind and consciousness with the US. It is always interesting to me to see what England would have become if after the poverty following the war it had gone for communism and received Russian cultural influence while being insulated from American culture.
It is a big problem in the English speaking world. When you share a language there is no barrier to the flow of ideas and culture. Some of the worst trends which developed in the US have effected and damaged the UK society. Other European countries have been spared some of this no doubt. This is because their language servers as an insulator against the flow of culture and ideas. The use of English in the UK means the flow is not at all stopped. Added to this it is widely believed that because the US has the same stock of people (English, Irish, Scots) as the UK and Ireland, it is therefore a brother country. Such an opinion forgets that the US was made up of all European peoples (Germans are a huge amount, maybe the largest) as well as Africans, Asians and Jews. Many Englishmen are extremely pro-American due to the US cultural influence and feeling of kinship, especially in the last thirty five years.
Decky wrote:This, it is particularly bad in Britain (and I assume the rest of the Anglosphere) where we have their "culture" bombarding us constantly with **** music and moronic TV, it feels rather like being under siege.
It is a big problem in the English speaking world. When you share a language there is no barrier to the flow of ideas and culture. Some of the worst trends which developed in the US have effected and damaged the UK society. Other European countries have been spared some of this no doubt. This is because their language servers as an insulator against the flow of culture and ideas. The use of English in the UK means the flow is not at all stopped. Added to this it is widely believed that because the US has the same stock of people (English, Irish, Scots) as the UK and Ireland, it is therefore a brother country. Such an opinion forgets that the US was made up of all European peoples (Germans are a huge amount, maybe the largest) as well as Africans, Asians and Jews. Many Englishmen are extremely pro-American due to the US cultural influence and feeling of kinship, especially in the last thirty five years.