The Truth about why Americans and British are SO Different
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Although we both speak English, American culture and status is completely different to that in the UK.
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Since the British colonists settled in the new world, or America, we have been drifting apart ever since.
US citizens and UK citizens have different values. Work culture and money are the biggest difference but communication styles and how we measure success are also poles apart.
Why are Americans and British so different? Let's find out!
1:45 this is a fallacy. The Puritans wanted to leave this country as they believed the state was being too lax on dissenters, not because they were being persecuted.
Yep! Religious extremism was part of the founding of the USA.....
they found the English puritans- the guys who banned christmas , and football too lax, they went to Holland, hoping that the religious nutters there would accept them, but they were too Taliban for even the Dutch
Basically not enough religious persecution rather than too much!
And don't forget Cole Porter, "times have changed, and we've often rewound the clock, since the Puritans got the shock, when they landed on Plymouth Rock, if today, any shock they should try to stand, instead of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on Them!"
And why, why, why does nobody in Europe ever have anything good to say about Puritans, without any awareness of the historical FACTS!? The Brit/American Puritans were not the FIRST or the WORST. More than a century before Plymouth was founded came Savanarola, the puritanical, in fact they say, proto-Protestamt Catholic monk who chased all the fun out of town, the town being Florence and the fun being gay sex. Now his puritanical streak is seen as unfortunate these days. He was appreciative of the art and culture that men like Leonardo and Michelangelo brought to the city (and why not, it was the apogee of the Renaissance, after all), but could not abide their queer ways. And that Is unfortunate. But, ,on the positive side he is called "proto-protestant" because he saw trouble coming from a long way off. He wisely favored reform. And, less than twenty years after his death, none other than Martin Luther nailed those theses to the cathedral door. History shows clearly that the good must be weighed against the bad. Now why can't Britain ever show that much magnanimity towards the US?!?!
When Americans say that the Pilgrims set sail to escape religious persecution, you are being a little disingenuous. In reality, they were Puritan and wanted much, much stricter religious laws than Britain. The idea of a country being free to worship how one wished was NOT in their minds.
I can't help thinking that this mentality still lurks in the back of many American's minds.
A little bit disingenuous? It was a flat out lie.
@keithhealing1115 Most Americans don't think, they react and live not on facts but the accrued content of their own opinions which are "so much better than facts" to Americans. They walk away from facts or fabricate them to suit their own agenda at that moment in time. Educated Yanks are few and far between: they don't attend university to learn, rather it is to have fun and plenty of the "S*X" word. I have never lectured or interacted with a more brain dead class than I have in America.
Ironically America was founded by our religious equivalent of the Taliban, and their attitudes are still present in US culture.
@@johnmurray7905 In a sense, yes. There's also parallels with the Nazis, because Hitler admired Cromwell greatly, even to the point of him being a hero. The Nazis also studied Cromwell's Puritans to see "where they went wrong"!
@@donepearce But it is the "lie" that they are told repeatedly. That, and the US has more "freedom" than anywhere else.
Would we be willing to give up holiday entitlement and NHS to have a chance of making it in the US? What kind of ridiculous question is that? There's no way I would want to live permanently in the US even if I could keep those things. I prefer the illusion of freedom we have here to the US version, where citizens are anything but free (and are even brainwashed as children at school). And you have no idea what you're talking about as far as being patriotic is concerned. Yes Americans go about telling everyone how patriotic they are and waving flags from every possible place. That doesn't make them patriotic and the lack of that loud, show-off, flag-waving nonsense in Europe certainly doesn't mean people here are unpatriotic. And talking about allies is an insult. In this country men (at the start of WWII) went to fight in France to try and hold the modern German war machine at bay. We were unprepared, ill-equipped and outnumbered. That was patriotism. Why did they do that? Because we promised we would (treaties) and because we understood what the Nazis stood for. The Germans started WWII on the 1st September, 1939, when they invaded Poland. The UK and France both declared war on Germany 2 days later. The US, on the other hand, dragged its feet and didn't commit until 7th December 1941 (over TWO YEARS later) although, in the meantime, it did support the allied cause by providing weaponry. Why? Because there was money to be made. It used the war as a means of making huge amounts of money. It didn't provide weaponry in the way it is now (to Ukraine), it SOLD weapons to its hard-hit allies. This constituted a massive war debt. Some of these 'loans' were only paid off in the early 21st century. On 31 December 2006, Britain made a final payment of about $83m (£45.5m) to the US. (There is a valid question here concerning these payments. Why were these monies not paid by Germany, Japan, and the other axis powers?) By the end of World War II Britain had amassed an immense debt of £21 billion. Let's also remember that the US winning the Second World War is a Hollywood construct and an insult to those patriots who really endured and fought for freedom in those early years; for example, the Highland Brigade, ordered by the British military hierarchy, to remain behind and die at Dunkirk covering the English withdrawal, and as a reward, they're never ever mentioned (except in Scotland). The only reason the US decided to support its allies in a military sense is, as everyone knows, because it was attacked by Japan (Pearl Harbour - 7th December 1941).
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The UK, where someone's health is more important than owning a gun.
If health was important here the NHS would be far better than it is.
And when ripping on their more relaxed gun laws is the best comeback you have for saying UK is better, it reeks of desperation
@@cultfiction3865 What white-dragon said was a statement of fact. Yes, the NHS could be better, but with decades of right-wing propaganda about how low taxes are brilliant, it is not going to happen, but we have seen time and again that the US (Republicans in particular) hold gun ownership in higher regard than universal healthcare. Therefore, in the US, gun ownership is more important than healthcare - ergo the reverse is true here.
One needing improvement does not negate the other.
@@cultfiction3865 Health is VERY important to the general population, but not to the Tories, who loathe the NHS and want to destroy it. Unfortunately, they've held the purse strings for the last 14 years.
@@cultfiction3865Well if your Yank then let's just hope you have the money to pay for your care if anything ever happens to you. The NHS might have it's problems. However I wouldn't call being able to get medical care when it's needed and not have to worry about going bankrupt a bad system.? ?
The Pilgrims didn't leave to avoid religious persecution. They left because they weren't allowed to religiously persecute others.
They left for the freedom to be assholes. We had too many religious freedoms for them.
Freedom is the great thing that the USA keeps shouting at the top of their voices. I will ask this. If I am a 7-year-old, am I free to sit down or walk out when I have to recite my oath to a flag in the corner of the classroom? Am I free to sing my praises to a non-Christian God in morning worship? Am I free to walk to school, yes walk, every morning? Am I free to go to a top quality school and learn about people in other countries, about religions in other countries, about politics in other countries, even if I come from a low income family? Am I free to do all of these things if I develop a serious illness that leaves me in need of constant care, even if I have very little income? Am I free to walk through the fields and walk my dog in these fields? Am I free for my parents to take weeks off work to take me on holiday without loosing their pay for 4 weeks every year? If you cannot answer you are free to do what should be seen as basic human rights then you are not free, you are just kidding yourself
Similarly, the US became hugely wealthy by dint of coming out of WW2 without being directly hit by it. It profited by WW2.
@keithhealing1115 The US profiting from WWII is a huge understatement. It robbed Britain blind. This lady has NO CLUE. But she IS AN AMERIXAN who will never in a million years lose her arrogance and cluelessness of the facts of what Americans DID NOT DO to deserve what they have. I'm an 82 year old Englishman - and a Geordie so, dear lady, I too can be vulgar and blunt and this is my message to you. Greed rules America. Corruption is rife in America. I lived in the US for 26 years with my American wife who has passed away and I stay because I have a terminal illness and am on oxygen 24 hours a day. I pay my own way (UK savings) I wouldn't ask the hideous US HealthCare system for an aspirin - it'd probably charge me $1,000 for a single pill. I detest US food which is like the American ego and State of The Union - stale and very much past its sell-by date - but toxic components keep it looking fresh. TELL THE REAL HISTORY OF AMERICA IF YOU DARE TO DO SO.
The colonies also gained most of the Midwest of the continent by having Britain fight for it against the French, but when it came time to pay the bill (those "taxes" were a government bill for fighting the French) they rebelled. In other words, they wanted a large chunk of the North American continent for free, and they got it.
We in Britain find talking about wealth and money is insulting and Vulgar 😢God bless the NHS not the USA USA USA😢
The NHS is a poor system. God isn't blessing it
@@cultfiction3865 The NHS is only "poor" because it's been underfunded by Tory governments, especially over the past 14 years.
@@cultfiction3865And that's because he's not real! 🙄
@@Really-hx7rl Please could I remind you that we have scientific proof that the universe had a beginning and the universe is made of matter..So the origin of matter cannot be matter. It would have to be something non material. And if time, space and matter came together in the same instant, the cause of them would need to be outside of them. And that kind of definition is the definition of God. A non material being outside of time, space and matter.
But, can't you understand, theists have a way of putting the fear of God/god in everybody else, IRONICALLY ENOUGH! Oh, go ahead and laugh at us. But, every Christmas some of us like to sing to the tune of "Oh Tanenbaum", "Oh atom bomb, oh atom bomb, we should have dropped the second one on........", I think I've made my point. Cheers.
You could offer me a million dollars to give up my life in the UK and move permanently to the US, and i would, without ANY hesitation, say NOT A CHANCE…..The US is a great place to visit, there is no denying that. But i want my 28-30 days off work. I don’t want to go bankrupt if i get ill. I don’t want to worry about getting shot. I don’t want to be defined by who i vote for. But most of all, i don’t want people there to pretend we are friends, but would have no problem watching me suffer if i couldn’t afford an operation, because they don’t want to pay into a National Health Service that would help EVERYONE…..We are very similar, and at the same time very different. But the US is my second favourite country, and these differences are not enough to change that 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
A point that is repeated time and time again is that people left Britain for the Americas because of religious persecution. Wrong, wrong, wrong. They left because they wanted to make the whole country take on their beliefs. That is how the USA ended up with its Bible belt states, where one religion dictates what everyone can do. Here in the UK we believe in true religious freedom, not the religious freedom as decreed by one religion, a religion that here in the UK is in palliative care because of diminishing believers. A lot of the reason for the falling numbers is that we look at the example of the Bible belts in the USA and look at it as religious oppression, almost religious fundamentalism.
You forgot to mention religious attitudes, here in the UK we've grown up, where over in the U.S the vast amount of the population are driven by Conservative Christian fundamentalist thinking, that makes a big difference..
As a 64 year old American, the religious conservatives are going to see a few changes on November 5th. They aren't as in control as they think they are.
Which is a major paradox, to claim to be ultra-Christian, but then to believe in "greed is good", "'I'm alright Jack", and to allow people to die if they're ill and can't afford medical treatment. The right to own a gun is more important than helping a sick fellow human in a supposed "Christian" country? 🤔
@@white-dragon4424 Absolutely, fundamentalist christianity is synonymous with a lack of brain cells
@@jaysummers9396 Can you imagine going back in time to meet Christ, then telling him about the USA, where on one hand they claim to be devout followers of him, but on the other hand they believe in extreme greed, owning guns, letting the poor sleep in gutters, and to let the sick die if they can't afford medical treatment? I wonder what his response would be? Extreme shock or laughter? I'd say a bit of both.
@@white-dragon4424 Absolutely, but then, christian fundamentalism is synonymous with a lack of brain cells, especially in America..
The one mistake that the people from the USA make time and time again is to compare US incomes with UK incomes without taking into account essential expenditure. Top of the list, Health care. Costs of UK healthcare is tiny when compared to US healthcare. People in the US love their cars so let's compare car insurance, I pay £300 pounds per year, not per month, I will repeat per year. Food costs in the UK are about 20% to 30% lower than the USA. Time off work, in the UK there is no limit on how much time you get off work sick, and you still get paid as well. Holiday time, in the UK the ordinary worker gets up to 5 weeks annual leave every year, and it's paid leave. The UK worker gets a year maternity leave, and it's paid. So comparing incomes from the USA to incomes from the UK cannot be a straight figure comparison. That to me is where the USA goes wrong, the bigger the number of the mighty dollar, the better they think it is. Sorry, you can keep your very high incomes, because they come with very high essential expenditure. Whereas my lower UK income, I know, is all mine and not going into the pockets of the shareholders of multibillion corporations.
Spot on.
American assumptions are a lack of education.
I’ve worked with many Americans over the years on telecoms contracts all over Europe and beyond and found them to be positive,friendly and knowledgable about their job.
But step outside those tramlines and they have very little knowledge,geography being the main one.
I also do not need to have the Union flag hanging from my house to prove my patriotism,or define somebody by who they voted for.
I had the chance to relo ate to California for work but turned it down to remain in my beloved England.
I made the right choice.
The Puritans weren't being persecuted enough. That Puritan mentality still exists. America is a young country and that childishness persists. Also, they don't get irony.
You say the US is the 'land of freedom' - what freedoms don't we have in the UK ?
When it comes to world rankings for freedom, the US is one lower than the UK.
We don't have freedom of speech. It's getting worse by the year.
The lady talks about “USA freedom” as if us poor saps over here in the UK are bound by invisible chains and ties and are preventing from “doing things” that form part of everyday life in the USA….
their “freedom” is questionable ….
Being that in most States in the USA, a person is at a risk of being fined for not crossing a road or highway at a designated crossing point aka ‘jaywalking’ - so there is no “freedom” to cross a road where you fancy like we have here!
There is nothing nicer, on a warm and sunny day, like going for a picnic in your local park, where you might enjoy a glass of chilled wine or beer as you munch on your sandwiches….only again, in some States, drinking al fresco is a no go! Another “freedom” we have here and happily indulge in.
The Think25 rulings re the purchase of “age restricted products” relevant in the UK and Europe - in the USA, a person has to be over 21 and in some States, ID just has to be shown regardless of age! So, out shopping, you are an adult aged over 21 and want to enjoy the ‘freedom” of buying bottle of wine to have with an evening meal, no ID? no wine!! … uh ohhh no ‘Freedom” there either!
Hey, come on be fair, they have the freedom to own a gun at primary school! Isn’t that what everybody wants?
@@shaunfarrell3834 and can you buy your child a bullet proof rucksack over here, in the same aisle as the cut priced Ak47s? *taps head* maybe in the USA version of Aldi but not in my local Aldi sadly 😒🙁but then again, perhaps it’s a USA “freedom” that I’m relieved we are routinely denied over here in the UK….. 🤔🤔
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The war of independance wasnt about taxes, that was just a smoke screen. It was about a land grab.
The British had promised the Native Americans that they would not go west and colonise but if anyone brought land freely off the Native Americans , they would have to pay the going rate.
The settlers didnt like this so they contrived a war and blamed it on taxes. Infact the taxes from the crown were minimal.
Like everything in America your history is based around falsehoods. 🙄
When you said America had the UK’s back during WWII, it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Yes there were the liberty ships bringing much needed supplies, but America initially wanted to stay neutral and there was a spirit of isolationism which dominated policy. So when invasion threatened the UK, and cities were being destroyed, America didn’t get involved. The Battle of Britain was fought and won, still America wouldn’t send any military aid. Germany gave up and turned its attention to Russia, then six months later, Japan attacked pearl harbour and attitudes changed.
So America did help in some ways, but it’s not as straightforward as is sometimes presented.
We only finished paying them back for their "help" during WWII in 2006!
They didn't "flee religious persecution".
They went to America because they were no longer able to persecute others who had less extreme religious beliefs than they did.
The English are 1/4 of the UK. That's what sets us apart. You Yanks use England and English as a collective term for the whole of the UK, Scotland northern Ireland and Wales fought in the revolutionary war against the US call us British or Brits
Yes, a major annoyance, to believe that they were just fighting the English, when in fact they were fighting the British, which is the English, Welsh, Scottish, and even the Irish. For example. there's a painting of the Battle of New Orleans from the War of 1812, where the British forces are shown sieging the American lines under the command of General Andrew Jackson. You know how many English soldiers are in the painting? ZERO. The British soldiers in question are Scottish Highlanders under the command of Irish General Edward Pakenham. Even the commander of the Royal Navy at the battle was a Scot! The English were there, but we were on the other side of the river during the battle.
England isn't a 1/4 of UK cos Scotland has a way lower population and so does Wales and northern Ireland
You use income 'Average' ... try looking at income 'median'... that takes out the ridiculous positive skew toward Billionaires in The US. You will find that revealing , and may burst your slightly smug US bubble suggesting the 'average' American is much wealthier than the average Brit. Also , The British don't like to show pride as much as Americans seem to. Basically you compare the US and UK through the prism of an American imbued with the glossy narrative of the American creation myth. I would also add that WW1 would not have turned out at all differently if the Americans had not decided to join two years late in 1916 (for no more altruistic reason than that it was damaging their economy) . The Americans in WW1 barely contributed to the battle at all. Further, your assessment of the comparative size of economies at the end of the c.19th. was in GDP; You don't consider that The UK was a vast Trading Empire, and output / production and trade was spread globally across Colonies and Dominions, so the recorded and reported wealth creation and output of the British Empire would have been spread around the World, but was still effectively British. In 1897, 55% of all Globally traded Goods was British. The American economy had no comparison to Britain and the Empire at the turn of the c. 19th. Kind regards.
Wouldn’t live in the USA I love the UK
I live in UK it's awful here what sane person would love it?
@@cultfiction3865 me sorry but I stand by what I say. It might not be what it was, but it’s a lot better than most.
@@cultfiction3865 I also live in the UK, and while it isn’t perfect, no country is I would never wish to swap it for the USA. For all its faults it is a vastly more civil country and people.
@@shaunfarrell3834 Making friends in UK seems a lot harder than in US. And the cost of living is too high in UK. As well as the relentless bad weather we get. Those factors are so important that arguments on who is more civil become meaningless. Who and what is civil are subjective conclusions. The important things in life are friendships, fair prices and good weather and the UK doesn't have any of them
@@cultfiction3865 Not sure where you got your figures, food prices are way lower as is vehicle insurance in the UK. Plus here there is the option of using public transport. Other heavy financial burdens simply don’t exist here as healthcare, and the comparison of the tax cost to insurance is much cheaper for vastly better outcomes in UK’s favour. Don’t know why you have problems making friends but I and m those I know have no problems. As to the weather it is delightful and interesting without the extremes found in the USA.
The main difference that is so obvious to anyone who lives in the US outside of the movie set cities is that the British and the world at large for that matter think there is one America when in fact there are hundreds. There's no such thing as a typical American and the idea that we are all united in greed, self-aggrandizement, political persuasion or religious fervor is not only naive it's ludicrous.
You could offer me a million dollars to move to the USA and I would decline, politely of course. I have visited the USA, many different parts and many, many times and I've enjoyed every visit, but I'd rather live in the UK any day of the week, or year, or decade. I love the UK 🇬🇧 and feel truly blessed to live here. Of course it's not perfect, nowhere is, but there's nowhere quite like it and it is beautiful - full of character, charm, beautiful architecture, fascinating history and offers everything from stunning cities to quant villages.
Comparisons about worker productivity are very tricky because they depend on how, when and by whom the stats are collected. I would never trust such stats as input to any important policy making or international comparisons.
Britain got wealthy with inventiveness, injunerity, discoveryand commerce ...
America got wealthy sitting on oil , iron , coal , and the land mass to grow unlimited amounts of cereals
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And by ruthlessly invading almost the entire North American continent and Hawaii by slaughtering and threatening their inhabitants; either that or by equally ruthlessly exploiting other countries' armed forces, like having the British win the Midwest off the French during the Seven Years' War, then using backing from the French to defeat the British in the so-called "Revolution". Most of the technology they exploit was also not invented in the US.
Around 140 countries have laws protecting freedom of speech or expression. I wonder if American exceptionalism is taken seriously by the rest of the free world.
I think Britain has been Americanised over the course of my lifetime, but it's interesting that you still see a lot of differences. The main thing I've noticed is the dumbing down of the culture thanks to American cultural hegemony. Also, American popular culture seems obsessed with violence, an aspect that was pointed out nearly a hundred years ago by George Orwell.
Quoting respective average annual incomes is just one part of the picture. You have to take into account how that income works for you. I mean, by way of example, what is the benefit of a high income, one that is say 50% higher than other places, when the average cost of living in said country is twice as high as anywhere else?
“Sets us apart” does not mean “sets the cat among the pigeons”.
I doubt many people from the U.K. would choose to live full time in the US nowadays . It's not just the terrible healthcare situation, the dismal working conditions/ workers rights , the emphasis on individual greed , but also the extremist politics and the insane gun situation !! The reality of life for most US citizens is constant stress and worry . Working like dogs to keep their heads above water and the pretty terrible food !!
All whilst trying not to get shot !! . Things have really got out of hand over there and when you factor in MAGA and trump ( who is despised by most British people ) its not a very enticing place for us as a full time home. For a holiday yes but I think most British people look to Europe rather than the U.S. for more permanent life change.
Saying British and Americans are alike is like say I'm like my cousin who lives 100 miles south , no , we're nothing alike , but he's still my cousin , still family 🤔
We're so different to the USA. We have been a great funding to the USA, as after Pearl Harbour you decide to join the WWIi. Which cost us Billions of Pounds. A lot of the facts are out of Sync.
One thing you got totally wrong is national pride. In England we don't show it every five minutes because we don't need to. Have you ever watched Last night of the proms?
5:57 You have got your percentages mixed up: $54,500 is 30% less than $78,000. $78,000 is 43% more than $58,000 So Brits earn 30% less than Americans, NOT 43% less. This is a common mistake made by many people when talking about percentages: LESS is not the same as MORE. Here is an example - %50 more than 100 is 150. %50 less than 150 is 75.
9:53 "Americans don't want to pay for anyone else's healthcare". Spoiler alert - that's how insurance works!
British work to live, not live to work.
Very interesting video, thank you. I find the differences between us fascinating. I have a few American friends and the completely different education and environment that we are brought up in seems to mean that our thought processes are remarkably different. This is loud and clear every time we meet. It’s not that one is better than the other, it’s just that we’re very different people and the illusion of ‘speaking the same language’ is just that, an illusion of sameness. God bless you, and keep well.
Seems like she doesn't want to talk about the elephant that was in the room
Abolition was well underway in Britain and the settlers knew it would come their way.
I wanted to be I want to be American when I was young. Because I thought it was the land full of beautiful people. Cool accents and Hollywood. However in recent years. The gloss has come off as it were. With the exception being the accents.
Thank you very much for this. It's going in my American history playlist.❤
Me too. When I was a kid and even in my teens I thought it was "the cool place", but kids are easily led into believing myths, especially when they're bombarded by US TV and movies. But we all have to grow up and realise that it's all just fantasy propaganda cooked up by their media. We all have to realise that, far from being "the cool place", you can't even go to school or a cinema there without the risk of being gunned down. Their obsession with money and luxuries is also quite vomit inducing. 🤢🤮About the only ones here who're turned on by such things are our elite, especially the Tories, but they're only 2% of the population.
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I would say it is changing .
It is all too apparent by the comments that attitudes towards the US has become soured. There is a deep disillusionment with America over the past few decades, and understandably so. By hitching ourselves to America Britain has involved itself in the disastrous wars of Afghanistan and Iraq which has caused a lot of resentment here. Its growing adoption of American style politics has also driven, at least in part, the growth of populist politics and, I would assert, the disaster that is Brexit. The more distance and the faster we put between ourselves and America the better.
Most Americans have German heritage, while English people are a diverse mix of people.
Anglo-Saxons are also Germanic. Angles and Jutes were from what's now Denmark, whilst the Saxons were from what's now northern Germany. In the 1500 years since settling in what's now England (i.e. Angleland), the English have become part Germanic and part Celtic due to intermarriage. Even modern Germans possess some Celtic DNA, because Celts themselves originally came from what's now Switzerland, Austria and southern Germany.
It was my privilege to worked with Boy Scouts of America in 1978. It’s an amazing country and proud to have some life long friendships. Two very different countries but actually the same values of right and wrong. You are a tad off beam With some of your observations. ( that is a typical British Understatement) As a child I did learn about the war of independence as I did the American Civil War. One suspects The US don’t teach students about the plan to invade the British Empire in the 1930s Plan Red being one of them. It is very interesting you explain how America mobilised industry for military production. Noting the wealth for the nation. The British were still paying for WW2 til 2006
The special relationship was born
out of intelligence services and the work at Bletchley Park. Think I read below comments on the Puritans seeking a far more harsh road. The clue is in the name. The British are no less patriotic than the Good old US of A, Try getting tickets to the last night of the proms. It’s just we understate and don’t make a fuss and of course this is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Interesting you found the need to quote Napoleon. We saw him
off at Waterloo! It is true we place high value on working conditions, health and leisure. The NHS is no panacea but it still works. The United States entered the Second World War 2 on 7th December 1941 a long time after the British had to stand alone. Many years later the British stood alone again in 1981. Eventually America did heavily back the British Jean Kirkpatrick strongly advocated the US backing a dictatorship .
So yes you make some tenable points but America and the U.K. are different Countries. Our cultures are not so different, being kindness caring and empathy underpin both.
defo wouldnt move to the US...too dangerous,
I enjoy youtube channels that offer banter, yes. However, due to the nasty comments and tone from those who commented, I no longer wish to be a part of this youtube community. I'm sorry Tess, but the audience here demonstrated a tone I do not wish to partake. Thank you, Tess for past videos. I do not understand why people can't engage in conversation without attitude.
To quote the great actor Jack Nicholson: "You can't handle the truth."
A lot of the stuff that's being said might seem "nasty", but much of it is true. However, American schools and media (especially the BIG propaganda machine known as "Hollywood") don't tell most of the darker facts about the US. For example, did you know that Hawaii was annexed off the natives by American settlers literally by the point of a gun? Or what about the War of 1812 being the US government taking advantage of the Napoleonic Wars in order to "attempt" to annex Canada? Or what about the American settlers slaughtering Native Americans and putting them in concentration camps that they quaintly called "Reservations"? Or what about the rape and torture of African slaves on the plantations? I could go on and on, but I think you get the message?
Wow, some American hate in here…… a little undignified….almost American in tone. 😂