Do we really detest the Yanks or is it just friendly banter?
2006-10-02 09:19:37 · 26 answers · asked by Ellie29uk 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Discovery tunnel.... this is Yahoo UK & Ireland..... open up your eyes and see beyond the borders that restrict your thinking
2006-10-02 09:23:32 · update #1
I guess most of us enjoy the banter, but your additional details say it all, about that ridiculous minority of Americans....
2006-10-02 09:25:53 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Glenn 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I quite like the USA and the American people. In many ways they're a fantastic nation, in some ways they're not. But you could say the same about Britain. There's licence there for a bit of good-natured banter between the two. It's just a shame that some people try to turn it into a contest.
2006-10-02 09:31:51 · answer #2 · answered by FrozenCamel 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
they only exceeded off to be the actors they elect, and that i think of each and every of the actors are good. i do no longer see why this is a difficulty, exceptionally in view that have been given isn't set in usa of america. additionally, ASOIAF replaced into inspired by using the conflict of the Roses, which happened in Britain, so it makes greater experience for the actors to be British (or to communicate in British accents). i'm from Britain (Yorkshire exceptionally) and that i admire each and every of the northern British accents in the tutor because it breaks down stereotypes approximately all British people taking like the Queen. and seem at, as an occasion, The walking lifeless - it is set in usa of america, and Andrew Lincoln (who performs the lead function) is British putting on an accessory, as is David Morissey who performs an antagonist. the two a sort of British actors are astonishing in this tutor and that i see no longer something 'embarrassing' approximately having British actors in an American tutor. With the Sopranos, in the event that they DID use 70% British actors, as long as those actors have been good and could placed on good American accents, i do no longer see why which may be 'embarrassing' in any respect!
2016-10-18 09:07:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't detest them. We are bemused by them, exasperated sometimes by them, and don't really fully understand them, but don't detest them. We perhaps should remember that we have the best news media in the world, and being a little island have to be more aware of what is going on in the world, we don't have the luxury of living in an insular environment, so there will be cultural differences as a result. I really don't get what all the pops about oral hygeine in the UK are about, I have met americans with truly awful teeth, mine are just are fine, and so are those of everyone else I know. And don't get me started on the genital mutilation of male infants *shudders and thinks that if it was done in adulthood they wouldn't be so keen*.
2006-10-02 09:23:54 · answer #4 · answered by Lynn S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm a Yank, though I have English blood, I don't have a problem with "real" Brits, so why have a problem with me? I think it is just friendly banter. Peace.
2006-10-02 10:03:19 · answer #5 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
well, I don't feel qualified to answer on the grounds I am a "Yank" ...but from my point of view I've never hated or been hated (to my knowledge) by a Brit. I have to choose "friendly banter"
2006-10-02 09:23:09 · answer #6 · answered by naughtykitty94 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I really like Americans a lot. I think they're very polite, and have an endearing generosity of spirit. Contrary to what some Brits believe, they understand irony perfectly well, it's just that their natural inclination to politeness leads them to take what they are told at face value in the first instance, and consider other alternatives secondly.
You here them say things like ''you're putting me on, right ?'' in the form of a question. Because in American culture, to just assume the speaker is not saying what he means would be a bit rude.
Any American women looking for a partner ?
2006-10-02 09:38:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
We don't detest the Americans, it is indeed friendly banter because even though we know we're marginally superior (chill out Americans - I mean no offence!) we're still cool enough to play it down and still be friends with everyone else.
2006-10-02 09:27:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Honestly? I think for the most part that it's friendly banter. If we can't joke around with our cousins across the pond, then who can we? It's all fun when it's family, right?
2006-10-02 10:00:36 · answer #9 · answered by Autumn BrighTree 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I hope it is just friendly banter. Speaking for myself, I like the Brits and hope you like us too (at least most of us!).
2006-10-02 09:26:25 · answer #10 · answered by just me 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋