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Sep. 3rd, 2002 11:25 amOne interesting difference I’ve noticed between Britons and Americans is the different ways they appreciate their countries.
To put it bluntly – the less an American travels, the more they seem to love the good old US of A. The less an Englishman travels beyond our borders, the less he loves his homeland.
Now this is just a general rule, and I know there are exceptions, but it remains remarkably true of those people who I have met. Go to America, and if you meet someone insisting that the US is the best place in the world, you can usually draw a graph displaying the inverse relationship between the distance they’ve travelled beyond their borders and their conviction of the greatness of their homeland.
Conversely, the more loudly a Briton insists what a hellhole England is, the less likely it is that they’ve seen anything of the world.
I could make some very trenchant observations as to why this should be, but I’m interested in hearing other peoples views as well, so comment away.
To put it bluntly – the less an American travels, the more they seem to love the good old US of A. The less an Englishman travels beyond our borders, the less he loves his homeland.
Now this is just a general rule, and I know there are exceptions, but it remains remarkably true of those people who I have met. Go to America, and if you meet someone insisting that the US is the best place in the world, you can usually draw a graph displaying the inverse relationship between the distance they’ve travelled beyond their borders and their conviction of the greatness of their homeland.
Conversely, the more loudly a Briton insists what a hellhole England is, the less likely it is that they’ve seen anything of the world.
I could make some very trenchant observations as to why this should be, but I’m interested in hearing other peoples views as well, so comment away.
