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Originally Posted by Livia
I've spent a lot of time in the USA. I would never want to live there permanently. I find people generally much less worldly-wise than the rest of the world. Most Americans have no idea at all what's happening in the rest of the world, and very few of them ever venture out of their own country. Their biggest achievements are as a direct result of expertise and knowledge from other countries, which is fine... but Americans have a big problem giving anyone else any credit.
There is no "special relationship", there never was. Americans make a big deal about "saving our asses in WW2" when in actuality they turned up only after Japan threatened them, they were three years late and they charged us for their participation. They charged us A LOT and the debt was only finally paid off four years ago.
British people would never allow this country to become the 51st State because, even though we quite like Americans, most of us generally find them hopelessly ill-informed, terribly uncultured and little bit silly. There are exceptions of course.
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I think you'll find most british are just as uninformed as most americans about the rest of the world.
If you want to find out, tomorrow, ask everyone you see who the leader of China is. I bet they won't even know if they have a president, premier or prime minister.
Or to make it even easier, ask everyone you know tomorrow who is the PM of Canada. I bet they won't even know that.
How many Brits do you think can answer those questions?? but Brits are sooo worldly wise?? lol.
Sorry, but i've seen Jeremy Kyle show, Brits are just as ignorant and insular as Americans.
Just because Brits know more about America than Americans know about Britain doesn't mean Brits are more worldly. It just means you watch a lot of American TV.
The average Brit knows just as little about Uganda or Vanuatu or even Croatia, as the average American. Which is basically nothing.