What separates us and what brings us together?
2007-09-24 09:46:42 · 22 answers · asked by your_dear_old_mother 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Sorry, "English" should be "British" in my question. I couldn't think of the correct term.
2007-09-24 09:53:59 · update #1
Differences in pronunciations, differences in names for items and a more laid back style to life than the straight laced british culture...plus Americans have cooler accents and hotter guys ^_^
2007-09-25 00:20:18 · answer #1 · answered by Commander Shepard 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi....
The difference between the Americans and British?
The British have taste and a moral outlook on the planet, the Americans certainly have not!!
The Americans are the most two faced, they point the finger at the British Empire, yet do exactly the same, if not worse!
By the way, to the ignorant Americans....
I am English, the English people are the English, it is not only the language, that is actually named English!!
You Americans speak & write 'my' language and the language of 'my' ancestors. The language of the English people, who live in England!!
The Americans were set up by us, democracy, liberty and freedom.
Copied everything from us, the Red White and Blue flag from the Union Jack and the 'British India Company'.
Its political system, court system, army & naval system etc etc!
Then when the time was right, stabbed us in the back, to gain the power from us!!
America was quite happy to see its ally France been taken over by fascists in ww2, even when the symbol of liberty & freedom, the statue of liberty was stood in New York harbour, which was a gift from France in the first place!
America did nothing, until it was struck itself at pearl harbour!
What did America do back to Japan for attacking it?
Dropping two atom bombs on two Japanese cities, killing over 400 THOUSAND innocent civilians!!
Now isnt 'that' something to be proud of!!
America was quite happy to see Britain loosing its power, while capital hill was rubbing its hands!!
It did nothing to help with military, it watched its greatest ally and parent country Great Britain, being bombed night after night!
Then right at the end of the war, when Hitlers armies were very weakened, America stepped in, then claimed all the victory and glory!?
They still shout about it now!
What about the millions who died 'before' America got involved, what an insult to their courage and deaths!!
They sit isolated from the rest of the World, a secular society, different, ignorant and arrogant from the rest of the World, is it no wonder, the rest of the World, is starting to dislike them?
People all over the World said that about the British & Empire, now its the Americans, although the British have learned a lesson or two, the yanks still have not!!
They know their heritage, yet refuse to acknowledge and respect it, as though nothing existed 'before' and outside America!
Nothing should bring us closer together, i am sick of the cheap and dangerous Americanisation of my country, children seeing guns and gang hatred on American tv shows, then emulating them here..... sickening!
Britain should stick to Europe, we are European and so are most of the Americans, but they cannot admit it!
2007-09-24 14:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by Paul222@England 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Culturally, I think we have evolved to be very much alike. Beginning in the 1960s with the British Invasion, the Beatles and others did much to blend us in many ways. I think our biggest difference is in the names we give to everyday things, like flat / apartment, Etc. Brits are our greatest allies!
2007-09-24 09:55:38 · answer #3 · answered by ~ Floridian`` 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From tea to the Oxford dictionary. 99% different. Let's leave 1% for words spelled and pronounced the same.
2007-09-24 10:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by Britt W. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
holymoses sums it up quite well. Americans are arrogant, think they won the war for everybody with no help which they constantly remind everyone of, and still own the world.
It think that pretty much satisfies the question.
2007-09-25 03:09:24 · answer #5 · answered by hopflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well what separates us is our accents and our idiotic leaders bring us together when it comes to war.
2007-09-24 18:40:53 · answer #6 · answered by Hope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(1) Americans slur their consonants (except they do not drop their Rs and they generally pronounce WH as HW, not just a W, Brits slur their vowels, but although the Americans pronounce unstressed vowels, they do tend to distort the pronunciation of short vowels--American "sorry" sounds to a Brit like "sarry", and American "pin" sounds to a Brit like "pen".Spelling pronunciations (lieutenant, clerk), are much commoner in the US. And of course slang is often quite different (grass v. stool, blackleg v, scab), and although US slang is widley understood in the UK the opposite is seldom the case.. (2) There are innumberable vocabulary differences, sometimes due to American conservatism ("gotten," "herb" with silent h), puritanism ("homely" for "ugly", the vulgarism for the fundament pronounced with a silent R), love of Latinisms ("principal" for "headteacher"), historical differences ("creek" for "brook," "store" for "shop"), Hispanisms ("tornado" for "whirlwind") and a preference for the latter part of long words (a bathtub becomes a bath in UK, a tub in US, a tinned can becomes a tin in UK, can in US, a taxicab becomes taxi in UK, cab in US, a reel of cotton thread becomes cotton in UK, thread in US...), and many technical terms differ (a railway waggon's bogie becomes a railroad car's truck. An aircraft undercarriage becomes an airplane landing gear). (3) UK spelling derives from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of 1754, US spelling from Noah Webster's Dictionary of 1811--Sam Johnson's opposition to US Independence lost him market share. (4) Americans are more conventionally polite, particularly in the use of "Sir" and "Ma'am." (5) Americans (and British Northerners) do not distinguish "will" from "shall," keep the short A in dance, castle, can't etc. (6) Americans are less strict than Brits in distinguishing in usage the past tense (I did) from the present perfect (I have done).
2016-05-17 21:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love of freedom brings us together
food is a big difference though
....hope to vist the UK some day
2007-09-24 09:53:44 · answer #8 · answered by Margaritavillian 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spelling and pronunciation.
And that second question will cost you another 5 points.
2007-09-24 09:52:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
English : Soccer, Tea, Accent
America : Football, Basket ball, baseball, etc.
2007-09-24 09:52:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋