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"Lack Confidence" No mate. What we see from Americans isn't "confidence" its "arrogance" One is knowing your worth, the other is thinking you're worth more than you are and then having absolutely nothing to back it up with.
🇨🇦 Spot on. Americans elected Count Binface, only shoutier.
AT LEAST WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND CAN'T BE JAILED FOR DISAGREEING WITH OUR GOVERNMENT. AND WE CAN PROTECT OUR FAMILIES WITHOUT HOPING A COP SHOWS UP.
@roxannekean6025 OH SHOUTY ONE, 140 countries protect freedom of speech or expression (e.g. everything but racist propaganda or incitement). And because sketchy folks are unarmed, most families feel fairly safe. But do go on with your sparkling analysis.
@roxannekean6025Ooh triggered. Pun fully intended.
@roxannekean6025why are showing.
Massive difference between confidence and arrogance
Self-deprecation is an art in the UK, especially in my family. I suffered a bleed on my brain last year, and for 6 hours or so it was touch and go whether I would either die, recover but with brain damage or recover fully with no serious effects. Fortunately it was the later because when I was at my worst and action was needed to be taken to save my life, I was already in hospital, and not just any hospital but the best neurological hospital in the UK. I was bloody lucky. When people hear that I suffered a bleed on the brain, I reply with, No, I absolutely fine, as you can't damage what's not there in the first place, can you.
I think the British confidence is more measured. The Americans are more akin to that cliff edge doesn't exist.
Lion is the national animal of England so that's why it's on their shirts, Scotland has the unicorn but we don't put it on our shirts.
The lions on the England shirt (three of them) are from the royal standard. They are lions passant - walking on all fours.
The Scottish equivalent, also from the royal standard, is the lion rampant - a lion standing up on its hind legs - and it is used by Scottish football supporters.
The lion and the unicorn are from the royal coat of arms: they are the supporters on each side of the shield, representing England and Scotland respectively. They are not used as emblems by football supporters.
I'm from the north east. Americans asked if I was Australian or from New York. When I said English, you'd think I'd said I was the cleverest person in the world lol. It got so bad, I'd whisper in public places.
I grew up in a Canadian street of free range Geordies. NE wisdom is real.
Could it possibly be that Oxford is producing other types of genius medical, engineering, architecture, design, chemical , because America is far more money/success focussed than UK.
Spot on. Excel in those fields vs entrepreneurship, and you'll get along nicely. Meet a Yank and count the seconds before your salary range is assessed via "What do you do for a living?"
YES...exactly the points I was going to make. What's so special about entrepreneurship anyway?..A guy inventing a suitcase for kids to ride on in airports against someone using their education to improve cancer treatment? Nothing to do with self belief, it's to do with wanting to do good in the world as against selfish profiteering.
Yes. UK universities do much more actual research and publish more papers than the US per capita. And it ranks number one in terms of the number of citations and overall quality. UK universities produce scientists. The US produces businessmen.
I think your right , we don't necessarily consider business ownership as an essential part , doctors , surgeons , lawyers etc are more important 😊
Good point !
They're speaking like self assuredness and boastfulness is a good thing, they're definitely Americanised, having said that, I do think we should have better view of our flag, whist we don't need it, we don't need to shout to know we're cool af
Lol. My kids have a big climbing frame with a ship bit and they’ve got a Cornish & a British flag on it 💪🏼🇬🇧
@Dr_Vix
As cool as that (obviously) sounds... I would choose (in Cornwall) a Cornish flag and an English flag. (St.Piran and St.George).🙂😊
This is a very limited conversation, they're young men talking about topics without any real in-depth understanding or experience of their subject.
There is no real link between academic intelligence and entrepreneurial ability, which they don't even begin to analyse. Entrepreneurship is somewhat antithetical to the British culture. Bankruptcy is a near terminal status financially and culturally in the UK, whereas in US it's viewed as a temporary setback on a journey to success.
I've travelled US extensively over the last 40 years with an RP English accent and have found Americans fairly stand-offish, virtually no curiosity or desire to socialise, especially in the midwest. The enthusiasm for the British I found occasionally in the South and was given one free meal in a diner because of a conversation, but that highlighted the general disinterest in someone who wasn't from around here.
They seem to have accepted what Americans like to say about themselves rather than having extensive interaction with a diverse pool of Americans. I would take what they say on its face as a bunch of thoughts, but DEFINITELY not insightful.
Hey Joel, I think the difference Historically is, the UK is focused on education (learning, to improve the world as an example the industrial revolution) where the US is focused on Profit (making money to improve your own life).
far too simplistic, we brits went for profit too throughout the last century
Haha true and nice mate😂😂
@ and look what happened when we did, we went from the largest empire the world has seen to almost a third world country attached to a city with one of the worlds largest economies.....
@Enhancedlies Not true. A lot of the biggest inventions of which are British, we don't profit off. We almost always give the idea away for free. Think of the WWW as a fairly modern invention that was given to the world for free. Brits are good at inventing and Americans are good at patenting.
@Ayns.L14A yeah man now we have a problem in Scotland with Celtic supporters flying Ireland flags here. This is Britain not Ireland. We took youse guys over as part of British rule haha. Its like an Iraqi flying an ISIS flag in US. Pure treason to Britain GOD SAVE THE KING🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Hi Joel, some of the funniest people I've met were casual meetings with older guys in pubs and cafes that probably never heard of Jimmy Carr or Bill Burr.
To quote Douglas Adams regarding intelligence "Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reasons.”
This drives me nuts. There is no such thing as a British accent. We are 4 separate nations. With several seperate accents in each of the separate 4 nations.
The Brits are coming with four separate accents and further regional dialects; has a it less appeal and is too long to shout”
@fuzzyspackageI love our accents, you can drive like 10 mins and get a different accent. I cross my border and we’re arguing about the way to spread a scone! Americans have the same though… southern drawl, smooth New York, ott california!
*separate ( _not_ "seperate").
"Nuts, whole hazelnuts... Oomph...
Cadburys take 'em and they cover them in chocolate!!"
@Dr_Vix in the UK we have well over 200 accents and Dialects. I live in Wales but am English in the village I live in there is at least 20 different accents from all over the UK you literally walk down the road anywhere in the UK and you'll not hear the same accent twice there are so many.
This is because brits do move around a lot but not only that we are a mix of Norman, Anglo Saxon, Viking, Celts, Roman, etc etc so a lot of out language is made up of these people's and regional accents stuck!
There are at least 20 in Scotland.
Entrepreneurship is more of an American Dream ideal.
What is entrepreneurship anyway? Getting a business going - doing what?
In UK people would rather work towards doing the thing they like / do best whoever they're working for. They'd rather concentrate their time and energy on that and leave the entrepreneuring to someone else.
Work / Life balance is more important to Brits.
Britain didn't create the largest Empire in history by playing nice. We just committed lots of atrocities with a stiff upper lip and a quiet voice.
So did many others and everybody makes mistakes.
In the UK we don't lack confidence, we just have it at a far lower level.
Quiet confidence is an oxymoron in the US.
W
E don't lack confidence we do subtle we don't shout at people..
We generally aren't
loud .xxxx
The US education system is geared to going to university, in the UK entrepreneurs don't go to university per se, they are already getting on with it in life, I think that these guys have a somewhat narrow focus or understanding based on their own biases, I would sit down and seriously argue back on a lot of their thinking, here's a thought, the USA is the richest country in the history of the world and yet over 40 million of its citizens live in poverty, just look at all the people living on the streets just in California.
Yup. Look at the apprentice dude, Richard Branson. My uncle is a millionaire and it came from very low paid working class. These guys don’t know true working/lower income Americans or Brits.
Comedians when discussing their art would say it's one thing for someone to entertain friends sitting on the same table as you in some pub somewhere, but it's a whole different ball game to stand in front of a few thousand strangers and be good enough to get them on your side and make them laugh!
Joel, first of all, you are very wise for a young fella. Secondly, you're right. My dad was really funny and always had people laughing with his jokes and one-liners, for years everyone told him he should be a full-time comedian. Eventually he booked a spot in a comedy club and went on stage and his arse fell out, got booed and things thrown at him 😂😂😂
The Beardy bloke needs to grow a set, both them are a couple of roasters.
But the UK has had more scientists with breakthrough theories and developments over time
another great vid, Joel. Loving the new haircut and cleanshaven look btw! 😋
I had a serious disease in 2006 and my health is up n down. I could've been worm food but what gor me through it and still to this day is my humour. I take the piss of myself and others and us brits just do that besides moaning wether the weather is too hot or too cold 😅😅😅
Yes are sense of humour can't be compared and I moan about people moaning about the weather 😊
Haha yeh me to 😅😅. Its like we're programmed to be that way from child to adult 😅😅😅😅@tinastanley3552 2
Thanks Joel, what an interesting video 👍
Many interesting points for discussion.
Love the idea that the British + Americans form a power couple, like Tigger and Eeyore. ;-)
UK has banter'
It's not jokes..we don't show off.
Hello Joel. See "Upper class, middle class and lower class" sketch from John Cleese and Two Ronnies.
I know my place and it is near Rochdale, Wakefield and Middlesborough. I have toured Europe and North America too. Having said that, see Wandering Turnip in Haworth, then in Australia.
I take umbrage with these types of videos, the UK is not a monolith. We don't all believe these things, these are just opinions of two random people, you cant watch these videos and take them as gospel because they appear "learned". like with the talk of universities and the levels of entrepreneurship, how does that translate to anything? if its from people on business courses perhaps, but people at Oxford and Cambridge doing English or Economics doesn't mean they are going to start but a business.
I know you've been to the UK a few times but that doesn't really mean you know or understand it fully, these guys are mostly talking bollocks in my opinion and your just parroting their ideas because they vaguely align with what you know and have been brought up with
Totally. These aren’t JPs views though, I think he’s super down to earth (for an American 😂).
I agree with your comments here about these two self-opinionated "bleeps" and _also_ that Joel sides with what he _thinks_ he has come to know as "fact" during a few visits to the UK. Actually spending most of his time in York, Liverpool and Glasgow, for example...(?!) and viewing the usual videos about the Cotswolds, Bath, a few seaside resorts, and watching men like these, Joel tows the line because he _hasn't really_ learned as much as he _thinks_ he has, as to the differences (and "likenesses") between general (and specific) "average Britons" compared to the "average citizens of the US"...
Another thing, Joel (& JJLA, Tyler Rumple, etc) seem to think Lawrence Brown (Lost in the Pond) knows _exactly_ what he's talking about when comparing the US - where he's been living for I think, over ten years now (?) - to the UK, where he lived til he was 26/7, in _Grimsby_ (no offence to Grimsby btw,) and has infrequently returned to (perhaps) visit relatives and on the basis of those few returning visits, has intimate knowledge of the rest of the UK (beyond his home town of Grimsby) which, judging by a lot of his content, he really doesn't!!
Lawrence's 'info' about the country which spawned him caters mostly, I would suggest, for his American followers, rather than his British ones - who know his "facts" about Britain / UK, are a tad screwed by years living and working outside of "our little island" in the vastness of the US, and his views and opinions on _us_ Britons has taken on the tinge of an American idea of what our "quaint little country / countries" ard like, _as opposed to our reality_ 🤔
(...sorry, 'mini rant' over!!) 🙂🙃😊
@Dr_Vix
They may not be Joel's own opinions but he tends to "tow the line" whilst watching the sorts of viewpoints expressed within videos such as that one, due to, I will suggest, _relatively brief_ experiences - though he obviously has travelled around _some_ of Europe and _some_ of the UK, and having done so, can speak with _some_ confidence which his fellow Americans / US citizens may not - _unless_ their own travels equal Joel's... (eg. Mark of 'Wolter's World' likewise has travelled "a fair bit" outside the US but he still exhibits his American bias regarding Europeans and / or Britons, sometimes incorrectly "advising" American tourists as to our general habits and culture.
@brigidsingleton1596Such a good mini rant couldn't have put it better myself, I watch that Lawrence fella only a couple of times that was enough 😊
@tinastanley3552
And thus, to emulate Sir Paul McCartney's 'Frog Song' ...
"_We_ _All_ _Stand_ _Togetherrrr_ !!" 🙂😊
In terms of the research and entrepreneurs. I think there is less emphasis on weath generating and profit as the prime mover. Graduates want a job yes, but not necessarily to build a business. Some do, but its not the norm.
Hi Joel , Americans do seem more self assured or as we call it arrogant 😂.
Americans are willing to take chances and the English/Britts are reserved.
Adaptability is the key to human's success.
Mistaking pride for nationalism and flag worship is kinda frowned upon for a reason in the UK and elsewhere outside of the US
Our custom may offend that is too bad. As for our Flag is a symbol of our country, our pride, our patriotisms, and it is a symbol for all our country to rally around in times of trouble and times of celebration also. Our Flag represents all these things but it also honors its fallen military members ultimate sacrifice also. This symbol of our country we even allow people to burn it in this country in protest and not face any charges criminally for its destruction. For me personally I still salute our flag and I remember all the fallen I served with over the years and never forget the obligation, and sacrifice I owe to them and their families for the rest of my life.
@nebrtwostar unfortunately, as you've hardly had a day when you're not attacking another country since 1776 and are constantly invading and annexing land (either for yourself or for Israel), your flag represents nothing more than imperialism and social nationalism. You illusional political choice is just that, illusion and you employ terror groups, rebrand them and often use tax payers money to fight against yourselves - such as the case in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan.
Your own police force is something akin to a bad 1980s Robocop TV show,.
There's genuinely nothing much to be proud of, you've got a whole world that hates you and daily they get more galvanized against everything you stand for - the absolute lack of freedom disguised within the illusion of doublespeak.
Orwellian doesn't begin to describe the USA
No wonder the country couldn't work out what side of WWII they were on until antifa became more profitable.
Build your wall, stay behind it and keep away from my kids.
mickey flannigan is an example of how you can make the every day funny dude down the pub work on a stage
Joel do ya fancy doing a reaction video of James Blunt's Monsters..
I don't know when this video first was made, but attitudes have changed dramatically in recent months. When I was a schoolboy, the Brits had a bit of a "look at my naïve cousin" attitude towards the US. During the Kennedy to Reagan era, this became a quiet admiration. Today, most of us think you've totally lost the plot and we distrust the States as much as we do Mainland China. You're a false friend now. 😢
Agree! I don’t agree with their points anyway…
Most Americans still look fondly on the English people, but we have no use for your Governments or Leaders. England is being flooded with illegals crossing your borders. Neither Major Party is doing anything to stop it. While this is going on your standard of living is falling and your energy prices are going up. You turned your backs on North Sea Oil, and have embraced the climate nutters agenda. Stand-up for yourself against these poor decisions that don't benefit most citizens.
@nebrtwostar lol read something. You are parroting American talking points on a topic you do not have any proper information on. You are what people think of Americans btw
We're down the entrepreneur league because we regard money as a sin, unlike some countries. Asking How much do you earn is like asking How evil are you.
But in the UK we are far more familiar with American accents than they are with British accents. We all grew up watching 100s of hours of American TV. They have seen a few classic British TV dramas and seem to think that we all speak like we are from Downton Abbey.
I think a much closer description is Internalize vs Externalize, when I watched this when it came out i remember thinking this. British people have a lot of Pride but we carry it inside ourselves rather than display it to the world, its not so much lack of confidence rather than a society norm that we are modest in public. He is also wrong about the not leaving home thing we have produced a pile of explorers and adventurers From Charles Darwin , James Cook, David Livingstone, Francis Drake. The other problem regarding having an Idea and just doing it Is that it can lead to disaster if not thought through it can do a lot of damage, you should check Jimmy the Giants video on Digital Nomads and what they are doing to Bali s Economy
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Venture capital is much harder to get in the UK. For people who want investment for a new idea or start-up are more likely to get it in the US.
I don't think much of this is right. American confidence is all front and arrogance. it does not signify real confidence at all, in fact it comes over as a lack of confidence being over compensated for. Being loud does not mean they are confident.
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Why do you think the most popular pub name in England is the Red Lion? I thought everyone knew that. The lion is the English emblem, the Welsh have a Dragon, Scotland the Unicorn and Northern Ireland the Shamrock (I think that’s what they use, apologies if I’m incorrect).
Big love, bro🦖😈🫡🫶
It's because we know we are OK, is why we do not have to prove it. Have you not heard the saying, I thing the lady protest to much. Meaning the more you try to prove the point of some thing , the more every one knows it's the opposite
Oxford is more for academics, and researchers and much the same for Cambridge, there are many who study space and related outlets from Cambridge....I thought these two were intelligent,...the 3 lions are from the British/English coat of arms and also are on the Royal Standard flag, they are the national animal, hence the rugby team called the British Lions....I think referred to in heraldic terms as `Lions Passant'.
The three lions of the England team? They are what's on the Royal Standard Flag representing the England part of the U.K.. as Opposed the Scotland and Ireland parts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Standard_of_the_United_Kingdom It represents the Monarchy, as opposed to a multi national saint
Why is the number of entrepreneurs a significant measure? I mean, I get that you need some, but I’m more interested in people who use their skills to improve society without profit being the motivator. Public service, non-profit, local government, etc. should be just as significant a measurement.
And for the cousin analogy, I guess us Canadians are the Brits’ little brother who grew up next door to the American cousins. 😂
As an Irish person in the uk at the moment, America are louder and more obnoxious in a general than British people and also British people go crazy over my Irish accent so it’s not just with Americans with the Brits it’s mainly just people hearing a different accent is interesting and fascinating for sure
You can study various subjects at university, at a very high level, that have nothing to do with entrepreneurship!
A cynic once said that "England is the paradise of little minds and the purgatory of great ones". We are taught from an early age not to boast or 'push yourself forward'. We are also good at criticising those who 'get above themselves'. Restraint and understatement are our default emotional modes. We find American demonstrativeness and directness intimidating, refreshing and embarrassing at the same time.
British humour is so brutal and raw. Real British humour isnt an act or a business it is brutal one liners and banter that is so fast witted due to the response of each of the UK nations trying a one up man ship on trying to out do each other the fastest its basically banter between us all and not down to trying to be politically correct
As for the animals in the world that have better abilities than humans and your ideas about other animals that cant evaluate their surroundings or contemplate why they are in existence. Thats because you havn't come across a Haggis or an Araf these are two very clever but very dangerous UK animals that live in two nations in the UK they are very intelligent and also very dangerous at certain times of yr so Americans visiting Scotland or Wales be very aware of these creatures!
Lol..love this...are they related to the Australian Drop Bears perchance? :)
@lynnhamps7052 funnily enough yes they are. We deported the criminal fraternity of them in the 1800s and they bred on the ship making another cross creature called the drop bear which in my understanding is actually just as fierce at certain times of year
@britbazza3568 Lol...Excellent, Attenborough needs to document this immediately. :)
@lynnhamps7052 lol
Very Good
No we just dont have massively over inflated egos.
No you do have massively over inflated egos, you just don't admit to it.
We do. Most comments on these kind of vid show it. It’s vile. Tho these kind of reaction comments are not representative Ofc
I though I was confident but now I am not so sure!
Sorry but the entrepreneur statistc is not an accurate comparison. The US population is around 5 times more thant he UK population, meaning that based on basic probability OF COURSE there's going to be more entrepreneurs coming out of america, and thats not even including international students. This video has some interesting points, i agree, but please remember it is EXTREMELY biased and you should try to take a negotiated view if you can. Just because 2 British guys are living in America, sat in front of a microphone, using fancy words does not mean their words are gospel.
Interesting discussion about the flags used by the "British" football team - which turns out to be the English one... This is typical of those whose experience of Britain is within the wealthier south as, so superior they consider themselves, taking the 'Britain' label for their exclusive use seems perfectly acceptable, no matter how much it disempowers the rest of their fellow countrymen. I wonder whether such internal oppressions exist within the US, and to what extent it has upon self-confidence and relative entrepreneurship?
I think that the positiveness that Americans have is just an American thing.. I'm Italian and meet all sorts of European people no one has it...us European are more likely to be less expansive and have our feet well set in the ground
Toxic positivity.
People who are cheerful before breakfast.
They seemed to be judging British universities based on US rather than UK values. When I look at places like Oxbridge I am thinking in terms of scientific advances, new cures for diseases etc, not how many billionaires they produce.
Listening to Brits who’ve gone to and cleary like America is not the right comparison
A bit late to this, but the thing regarding why England uses the Three Lions... it's not about being anti-British or anti-English to the point of not wanting to use their flag. Quite the opposite. When the FA, (the Football Association) was founded, when the rules that define footbal itself was created, it was by England, and they used the logo of the Three Lions for the FA ... those Lions? That's the Royal Coat of Arms of England. It's the very embodyment of what it is to be English. The Three Lions were the crest of Richard the Lionheart, you might have heard of that name... dating back as far back as 1100. That predates the St George's cross by some 300 years or so.
What it does show, and this isn't mainly those on the podcast, but a wide acknowledgement as well, is that of the idea that if it isn't supporting England, it's wrong not because you're not supporting it, but you're even thinking of it. Hence why they immediately jumped to this idea that it must be anti-english to use the three lions instead of the St Georges cross.
It is simple, in the UK and you are successful, buying a luxury house /car is seen as uncouth and not admired, where in America its the other wav around. Drive a Rolls Royce in many uk towns and you'll have something thrown at you, where as in the US it will have people coming up asking how you did it!
The cultural differences are on point. There's nothing arrogant about having confidence in yourself and believing in yourself. That is ingrained in American DNA, which says you can accomplish your dreams if you're willing to work hard. Americans are taught that we can become the President of the United States. While Brits are taught they won't amount to anything and should just accept whatever comes their way. Americans are taught to believe in themselves and view the world with optimism.
Nice hair cut Joel.
Confidence is often, or even mostly, due to a lack of understanding of the full facts.
What he said about the UK economy is incorrect. The UK being the 6th richest country is based on the GDP of the entire country, not London. It's common for people in London to have the attitude that the rest of the country doesn't matter and they are holding the country up. In fact, while London is a large global city, and a very important economy, it produces around 20% of UK GDP, 80% of the nations economic production is outside of London. Some of their other comments sound frankly naive to me.
What are you on about? It was the Brit’s who jumped on the boats and went to the “new world”.
6:30 Then again, California supposedly has a larger economy than the rest of the Union combined, including New York. Swings and roundabouts, I'd say.
It's super weired if you a non-native English-speaker (I'm German) and speak English with a UK accent. Americans just cannot not grasp that concept.......
Being Doctors or more intellectual jobs, Eg.,scientists, than going into capitalistic jobs America strikes me as extremely selfish money orientated versus more phillanthropic ,educational ,scientific mediical pursuits!.so comparisons coming out of university with only so many Entrepreneurs is not the best comparison. Entrepreneurs don't make society!
"Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim" -
_attr. Clement Attlee (1920)_
Also the university London school isn't included....
Thoughtful discussion. My "boomer" generation which grew up in the 50's often went to schools where a desire to make money was seen as rather vulgar and the ideal was to succeed in academia or in public service. This was obviously a skewed view because clearly things need to be paid for. I would be a useless entrepreneur but one of the American attitudes I admire is the"can do" mentality
it's not just the uk that is wary of people having pride in their country, it's alot of europe in general. nationalism is such an easy pipeline for far right nationalism groups to get to people and thrive, being very critical of your country is necessary, even if it seems like too much sometimes. america isn't an exception to this as we're seeing now, in the future americans are probably going to view their casual nationalism a little differently too, more similar to europe (at least the ones that don't already see it like that)
I don’t think you’re right about the intelligence part. I watched an outstanding documentary once about apes, and the key takeaway way was: you can teach a monkey words, but the fundamental difference was that no monkey has ever asked a question. The theory of mind is missing. So, intelligence is a precursor to that, sure, but what makes us really powerful is to be able to learn from others. The “cooperation” thing is even a big part of the “how a scientist has to behave” rules thingy for academia you have to implicitly accept when going to uni. Printed that thing out, never really got much further than that :(
So if Americans are very confident, then why do they need constant therapy? I would say it is a 'fake' confidence. A confidence on the back of the weak, putting down the other guy and having a smug confidence that you did that.
JPS you have seemed to riled up your English fan base with this guy's video.
I like Americans it’s only the ones who get stopped by police in their cars and refuse to be told the laws of the road ! They think they know more than the police or they have to get escorted off a plane and they start screaming it makes me so mad when they throw their tantrums like little kids
You forgot the Karen's and Tangerine people (felon president chump)
US cops are a disgrace. I'd rather have the Karens and a roll of duck tape.
If you look at the British forces and the ordinary people in the blitz, what needs to be done will be done.
Grit and determination is normal so ridicule is the only way to stop us taking over the world again.
If you are ultimately confident with no reason you get Trump
In WW2 Churchill said, ' You can depend on America to do the right thing.....Once all other options have been explored.'
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We will have leave the fact most of Europe was a sleep at the wheel in the 1930s for not seeing what was being built right under their noses prior to war.
These guys keeps saying "British" when they mean English.
We are not a monolith, were 4 seperate countries. Britain is a politcal union.
No, they mean posh southern, they don’t mean a dockworker from Bootle.
@ams1897absolutely for sure.
I find the conclusions made on these kinds of discussions rather oversimplistic, full of personal bias and lacking in nuance.
If we’re talking about comedy, some of the most successful comedians in America have played stupid, failing useless characters, from The Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin - yes I know he was British but he was huge in the US), to Laurel and Hardy, to Abbott and Costello to Rose Nyland in The Golden Girls and Chandler in Friends. Americans have many examples of people who are somehow lacking, be it as comedy characters or those who have been sold the lie that everybody can make it in America but the hyperbole hides the plain truth that many won’t and that most will fail - just like everywhere else in the world.
Hmmmm, very much simplified. British education leads to invention, discovery and certainly being an 'entrepreneur' is not what life is about. Britons invent and develop, the rest copy and make the vast fortunes. We have drifted toward the obsession with making money and becoming greedy. Larger louder than life is not something we have striven to be. A small island in the North Sea has made an impact in many ways good and bad, and certainly had no lack of confidence, We are declining for many reasons. Influx and outflux leading to identity loss, flying the flag will get you in trouble and a fascist label. I think most will know that all political parties have failed us. I'll stop here, rambling, and it's time to sleep.
Isn't it obvious that you think Brits are the funniest because it's your culture, and, therefore, it's the culture that you best understand the nuances of.b
No mention of ex-empire?...The largest empire and most recent...With that comes with a sense of responsibility even today...We don't wave flags so much these days probably because we were the the biggest flag wavers for 350 years......We feel we have been there and done it
"Lack Confidence' hell no we just don't need to go around constantly telling everyone how great we are we are confident enough to sit back and and think "Prat, just sit down and be quiet your making a fool of yourself, like a attention seeking child'".
American comedy? Seem to be far far too political. Not funny.
There are so many British accents. Some of them are horrible, and I cannot understand why someone in America would like an Eastend of London accent. It’s like thinking a Bronx accent is nice.
They're both hot but when he said 'the British Football Team' he lost me
Brits= Coulda, woulda, shoulda, 😊
Bro your Instagram doesn’t work I keep typing it in and it don’t come up
There are too many things to comment on here. I'll just summarise it has horseshit.
I like your point about human intelligence but you are only thinking about a particularly human kind if cognitive intelligence intuition, reading the environment, empathy and nurturing, the vast band of sound, smells and colour are also intelligence and things we find quite hard to see and do.
U S Americans salute their flag every day and this was started to bring together immigrants from all parts of the world and make them all "Americans"!
9/11 was only a terrorist attack, which Europe has often, not an attempted invasion and full on destruction. No idea
People graduating from Oxford don't aspire to be an entrepreneur - they were born rich, very rich.
Not necessarily, plenty of scholarships available.
@lynnhamps7052 Data shows that 82% of offers from Oxford and 81% from Cambridge went to students from the top two socio-economic groups in 2015, up from 79% at both universities five years earlier.
So the beyond rich and the mega rich
This doesn't even account for regular millionaires and wealthy business owners. Just the elites and their offspring. Often with their family member's face on their money
I'm from a working class background, but am also an Oxford graduate...
UK accents don't get any kudos in the European countries I have lived in... France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands,and Denmark...
We aren't allowed to.fly our flag because you could land up getting arrested
If Americans and Brits can bring the best of both worlds to the table, that be great. But remember, they could also bring the worst of both worlds together. Stay vigilant.
Oh, you don’t want to know.