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Zonie63 -> RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? (6/8/2013 7:51:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: garyFLR
I started this thread, hoping for a bit of friendly banter, useful insights, & maybe a little gentle leg pulling about our cultural differences, it's beginning to turn spiteful. If some of you want to start a war, why don't you meet up in a pub carpark somewhere, but keep it off here.
For my part, I've found it's the Americans that are more open & friendly here, & I hope that these xenophobic opinions are not reflecting on me!
Here's to the 'special relationship' between our two countries, long may it continue!
3rd & last time, lets keep this fun fun fun [:D][:D][:D]!
I regret my own part in it. I didn't really intend it to be that serious; just joking around about our many differences.
But we also have many good things in common. To be sure, we both have our dark sides, our shameful pages in history, but we also can count many heroes and those who fought the good fight. We've improved over the past couple of centuries from what we once we were. We still have a long way to go, and the future still seems uncertain and even a bit bleak. But together, we might still be able to muddle through somehow.
If it's any consolation, we Americans probably argue with each other more than anyone else. We have regional and state rivalries, various dialects, and an eclectic mix of cultures and sub-cultures which have melded together and given us a unique identity.
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ORIGINAL: Powergamz1
Shenandoah valley in Virginia has its version of the Hatfields and the McCoys.. the Morris and Shiflett clans.
Took me quite a while to figure out that very few people were actually *named* 'Maaarsh'.
Coincidentally, I've been watching the latest dramatization of "Hatfields & McCoys" (2012) on Netflix the past couple of nights, which has prompted me to do a bit of studying up on America's historical feuds. In my neck of the woods, we had the Earps and the Clantons. But our Southwestern accents seem more derived from the Midwest, without the pronounced drawl of the Southeast.
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