Brits vs. Americans

Haha, not this thread. The way people tend to talk.

 

I'm not actually paying you am I. :devil:

 

No, I still have to send you a bill.

 

£13 (includes VAT)

 

How do British people compare to Americans? It depends on which Americans you're talking about. Most of what we produce for TV and movies reflects the culture and values of New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. You wouldn't think of the US having a uniform culture if you had spent much time in these places:

San Francisco
New Orleans
Miami
Fort Worth, Texas
Nashville, Tennessee
the coast of Maine
any Indian (Native American) reservation
Alaska
Hawaii

The US is about as big as all of Europe. It's too large to be anything close to homogeneous.

 

There is something as American culture and that was what I was talking about. I'm not saying everyone from San Francisco to New York behaves or talk the same or something. The post you're referring to was primarily about melting pots anyway so good job taking things out of context.

 

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oh lol. my bad. That's true. I do think Americans probably have a more relaxed manner of speaking over all.

I generally think of the British speaking much more properly, although there is another forum I used to frequent that was primarily British and they threw around so much slang I couldn't really understand them half the time.

 

This too. Accents are becoming more homogenized in America among younger people (I'm southern and have zero southern accent unless I'm drunk lol) but people from different parts of the country can have such a different accent, cadence, and use of slang that it makes it impossible to really lump all Americans in by the way they speak.

 

A country as a whole can have lots of different accents (as most countries has, even a silly little country as the netherlands) and still it's citizens overall could speak less eloquent than the british

 

I usually speak very well, especially around clients. But I slide into a southern drawl and slang pretty often. A lot of people from inland parts of the south ask me if I'm from California, they're like man you sound like a California surfer. And up north I get asked if I'm from the south.

The thing about Brits to me, is they seem extremely uptight and repressed. Maybe that has something to do with their 'eloquent' speaking habits.

 

I think that's mostly just a stereotype.

 

How do we know this unless we have an embarrassing Youtube clip to make your case?

 

It is. We don't have many sex raves and produce hours of porn, but people do have a lot of sex in all manner of positions here. Even in cars.

 

Perhaps, but that's how they come across to me. Even the ones that have been living here for awhile. But especially the ones just here for a visit.

I have never been there though, so I can't say I know first hand.

Just as I'm sure most of you have never been to the US and don't know the first thing about it.. Much less spent time here and extensively traveled it.

Oh, that's right I forgot. It's ok to stereotype the US.

 

That's not even a sentence.

The word I had in mind was "formal", but that isn't always true either. Mick Jagger sounds very different from Paul McCartney, and neither one of them sounds very formal, usually.

And then, there is Benny Hill... :willy_nilly:

 

Chillax...
There isn't any need to be like that.

You are stereotyping the British but being a bitch about anybody else stereotyping.

Hypocrisy?

 

Most US stereotypes are true No, I'm just riling you guys up a bit now I do think we get a good picture of the US over here though, better than the other way around. Not saying a lot of it isn't your own entertainment filled with stereotypes but we have a lot of easy available sources without even speaking of the communication on the internet and irl. We're not retards, we can deduce wich sources are more accurate and grounded in reality and which aren't. Your country just gets a lot of attention worldwide

 

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No...

Pointing out how you Europeans stereotype us left and right without even having firsthand experience, then when I do the same.. the wooden shoe wearing chimes in with 'oh that's just a stereotype'. For reals?

Stereotype us all you want, the funny part is that it comes across to us Americans as nothing more than jealous resentment. So keep watching the TV and thinking you know everything about America. I'll keep thinking you guys are helpless socialists who never have fun.