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You mean bri’ish people.
Nah… I’m central European and that is not even close. Maybe for Europeans living near low cost turist atrections? Where I live English are maybe seen a bit posh, thinking thay are too special to be EU, decendents of big bed imperialist and such. While the scots are seen as trying to cosplay scandinavian. And I’m sorry to say we do not have any stereotype for the Welsh and Northern Irish whatsoever.
But Doctor, I am European.
What Brits actually look like
So like… The US of Europe?
Almost, they know how to queue.
Something something apple, tree…
Something something shit, asshole…
I grew up playing Runescape and I’ve chatted with enough british people over voice enough times to know the truth.
Eh, we’re not all like dat, ya cheeky git!
What about the TERFs?
BANG BANG
Come on Ingerland!
BANG BANG
Stop being a facking cack for Jey Kay Rowling!
BANG BANG
Cack. There’s a word I’ve not heard for a long time. Also not heard cackers for a long time.
Why are there so many pictures of the specific guy on the bottom used when making fun of the UK? Is he a celebrity or influencer I’m unaware of?
Both are correct.
I do have to defend the Scottish here.
To be fair, yes - I found the Scottish more approachable so far :)
I live in Jersey (New), but a friend of ours is from Scotland, our kids are all the same age. He and his family (when they were over for the World Cup) are all just super easy to shoot the shit with. Soft-spoken and an accent makes them difficult to understand at times, but cool people. Got nothing but good things to say about the Scots based off my limited experience.
How so?
With fire and trebuchets. Duh.
FREEEDOM!
Are… are Brits the Americans of Europe???
Yes, but at least we’re not the French.
An important point!
America’s founding was a bunch of British rejects and people deemed “too annoying for Europe”, along with their kidnapped, angry slaves.
Speak too loud? Get on the boat. Too religious? Get on the boat. Sold to us by West African slavers? Get on the boat.
Where do you think Americans learned to be so cultured?
Which Americans are we talking? Because a Yooper, Scots-Irish Appalachian, Cajun Louisianan, and some poor bastard from Baker California have little in common. Hell I’m a Southern Californian Redneck and frankly if I have to interact with my Northern Californian ilk I’m stabbing someone and dumping their corpse in an open mine shaft.
Even small countries like The Netherlands have loads of cultural differences, of course the US has that.
Doesn’t change the fact that we are all Dutch and you are all American’s.
America also has the weird thing that most of the stores and restaurants are chains apparantly. Or at least that is what most of the terminal online American’s want us to believe.
Edit: the basis in things like school systems, suburbs and angelo-saxton company “culture” also don’t help
I’m from Jersey, which I call the California of the East coast (just tiny), and despite our size, the differences between north, central, south, northwest, west, Hudson/Essex, shore, are all incredibly well defined. I always get a kick out of folks from outside the US lumping all of us together. Like, I can’t even lump myself in with people 50 miles in literally any direction.
All of them I think? The Anglo Saxon culture still dominates and founded the basis of American culture itself.
america is also composed of spanish irish italian black dutch native American german asian culture to name a few
While that may be true it’s very much in the same way that Roman culture is the basis and founding of Modern Romantic cultures. It’s to degrees and the more derived and hybridized the individual cultures are the more distant they become, not even accounting for cultural drift by time alone.
But I will also note that I don’t think the US has a united culture and what is often seen as a Pan American culture is moreso a side effect of the post World Wars migration, the migrations of the great depression/dust bowl, and the yuppies migrating about creating a rough amalgam culture that often out populates the older more divergent regional cultures. Basically if you think of a cultureless suburbanite that’s the thing I’m talking about. Also I think mass media reinforced the whole thing.
The foundational European culture of California is Spanish.
Yes.
depends on which brit we’re talking
Little in common, besides all of them speaking English natively (including the Cajun) and sharing the same high level culture. And don’t tell me it isn’t the same because it 100% is.
While language influences culture and culture influences language they are not the same by any means. Plus within the last hundred years the US has become increasingly mono-lingual in favor of English, according to my great great aunt for example when she was a little girl her father would still speak to himself in a German dialect because German was his first language since he was from a German town. A lot of these minority languages have either naturally due to trade or whatnot or via force from the feds been on the decline or are now extinct some of which predated the founding of the US. A similar thing happened with a lot of regional dialects.
Also define so called high culture? Because frankly given how much of Europe once shared a Greco-Roman high culture irrespective of their own regional cultures I’m gonna call that a potential irrelevancy.
I mean, Americans are a large and diverse group of people… But yes.
yes.
How British people see British people
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I am a total badass! :D golden.
God, I’m a bastard!
No you’re not… I think you’re actually quite nice…
If you can do a reasonably standard English accent, Americans will mentally add 20 IQ points to how intelligent they perceive you to be.
I was explaining to an English friend how people speaking with a Texan accent seem stupider to Americans. She replied, “Yeah we think the same about people with an American accent.” I would have been offended, but like all Americans from the mid-Atlantic I don’t have an accent. 😉
Everyone has an accent.
She replied, “Yeah we think the same about people with an American accent.”
Dang, I heard this but with the Australian accent😆
I once met a woman that was in her late 20s. Worked in tech for 3 years in Prague, and had a pretty TV style British accent.
She was from the Midwest. Spent 3 years in Prague and visited the UK like 3 times, then moved back to Chicago. Insisted she “worked with a lot of Brits and it just stuck.”
Yeah, I’ve worked with a lot of tall people. Didn’t make me grow taller.
Yeah, I’ve worked with a lot of tall people. Didn’t make me grow taller.
You should have worked with small people. That works better.
Can confirm.
Am short and have dragged many coworkers down from their lofty peaks to my dreaded land of needing step ladders.
Also occasionally delving too greedily and too deep.
Being below average height is where it’s at. I rarely bump my head on anything. I’m a smaller target for gunfire (am American). I have never had an issue finding clothes or shoes in my size. The world is built for me. And I guess 5’8 ain’t too short, but it’s below average, and so I’ve accepted it.
5’9" if I’m not slouching. Which I do when I’m standing, so I look even shorter.
As a fellow Burgerreicher, I truly appreciate you pointing out that we’re both smaller targets!
I wonder where she worked in Prague without the job being in Czech
She said she was in tech for some international company getting set up there. I can’t recall the name, but it wasn’t any company I recognized. This was also maybe 20 years ago she would have been there.
Tech or embassy
Tech she said, definitely wasn’t embassy. What embassy would have Americans and people from the UK working together?
Unless it’s one of those incomprehensible accents that we can barely comprehend. It’s got to be an RP sounding accent for me to consider adding the IQ points.
Simple as, innit bruv?
