Limeys and Yanks - Buddies or not?

[thaiphoon]

I assume, thai, that you didn't dislike her just because she was a liberal?

Not at all. I've a few very close friends who are VERY liberal. It was just the way she acted.

[americantrotter]

Born in England, I am now an American after moving here at the age of 2. I also still consider consider myself an Englishman.


Random thoughts:

I actually think that the relationship between the 2 countries is stronger than ever before.

I love traditional Workingman's English food, but the truth is both sides of the pond are very fond of all types of foods from everywhere.

I agree with the notion that there will always be someone from your "home" embarassing you. I mean when we went to Water Parks as children the British tourists we're all wearing Speedos!

Love being called a Limey.

[welch]

I come from the generation born to the men who for WWII. The British (and Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders in a snaller way) were branded into us: plucky Britain, surrounded Hitlerwho was master of everywhere he could march, and the British, especially the Royal Navy, standing between the German Army and the Islands. "we shall fight them on the beaches...our finist hour"

Our fathers and uncles talked about flying B-17s from the UK, or landing on Omaha Beach, of sailing cruises down the Atlantic coast in 1941 to chase German subs.

We watched American war movies -- a big slice of filmdom -- and British war movies. We saw the soldiers as allies, brothers.

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American customs and culture come from Britain, just as Ameicans influence the British. It has been this way since about 1840 - 1850, when Ralph Waldo Emerson "declared Amrican intellectual independence". Gradually, New York and Boston became the first place to publish an American book rather than London.

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When I work in Europe, I feel halfway home when I get to London. I think that will last, in spite of George Bush.