• kevinunknown said on Oct 20, 2009....

  No this type of blog is the reason we disapprove of you. Have you ever been to the UK or are you basing this entire blog on what you read in a news paper article and your experience of UK people disagreeing with what you say on this blog site.

  For the record I don’t hate American people, yes it is true I strongly dislike your politics and some aspects of what you like to call “American culture” (which is a joke). I can’t say, however that I honestly don’t dislike any particular American just because he/she is American and I know quite a few, likewise I never met any fellow countryman who has extreme racial views towards Americans.

  If you ever go to London you will see that we really are a very diverse society. London is just one example though; in truth due to the demographic makeup of the UK we are more racially diverse than any other country this is because throughout most of the 1900’s we had a very relaxed immigration policy that let nearly anyone into the country. Also we are part of the EU which means that anyone who is an EU citizen can move over hear whenever they want and we have loads coming in. Our universities are world famous and as a result we have huge amounts of Americans, Chinese and Russians are wanting to study hear, allot of them chose to stay. Immigration is a huge problem in the UK just now we have to many people wanting in and so many deferent spoken languages that “Other” is fast becoming the mother tong. Saying that however it’s really great and by no means is this a bad thing it means we have a very diverse culture. Even when I go to the shops I am guaranteed to meet some foreign and interesting person to strike up a fascinating conversation with.

  It is the views that Americans hold about the British military really annoys me, the British contribution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been huge. Our military might not be as large as yours but we are certainly as talented and professional as yours are, arguably more so all your Special Forces and most of their techniques come from British Special Forces. The UK also has the world’s most efficient and oldest intelligence agencies; MI5 and MI6 who  held the CIA’s hand in there early days, even the huge NSA would be nowhere if it wasn’t for the early cryptologists of Brittan in WWII.  

  As a Scottish man I have wore a kilt on only 7 occasions’s, contrary to what you might think the only time we were kilts are at very upper class dinner events, weddings and when receiving a medal form the Queen. This year is the year of Scottish homecoming it’s really for tourists but guess what it’s mostly Americans coming over wherein kits, eating haggis and shouting stuff like “I am home!”. I can honestly say that most of the “kilt-wearing wankers” I have seen this year are Americans.  

  Oh and haggis is delicious you should try it but I would tell anyone to avoid the deep fried mars bar.  

• porcelain said on Oct 20, 2009....

  I've been to London. It's like America...only older.

• curmudgeon said on Oct 20, 2009....

  I haven't been to London since I was a kid. I'd love to hike around the Highlands someday. Scottish accents are cooler than cool. Maybe someday I'll visit.
  
  Actually I've tried an Americanized version of Haggis at this Scottish place in Manhattan. I'm very fond of single malts.
  
  I was trying to be a little tongue in cheek here, but I do sense some hostility towards Americans from Brits and Aussies here on Soulcast and I just wonder why? If things are so damn peachy where you are, why feel the need to say we don't have a culture, especially when so much of our culture - Anglican-Protestantism, Americana music, colonial architecture, etc is actually inherited from the Brits, Scots and Irish who came over in the 18th and 19th Centuries?
  
  To put our culture down is to deny the validity of your own historical influence here. Somehow deep down I think you all don't think as much of yourselves as you say you do, so you put us down as an attempt to measure up.
  

• kevinunknown said on Oct 20, 2009....

  Crum—am surprised there’s not allot there I don’t agree with. I would like to explain to you that it’s not that I am hostile to Americans on hear it’s just plainly that I don’t agree with you it’s nothing personal or racial. As far as American culture goes I have made the point that I don’t think much of American culture many times. What I mean by that is that most of it isn’t original for example your architecture and politics and you don’t have the same sophisticated cultural tradition as other countries for instance: art, music, theatre and literature. It is true on the other hand that some aspect of your culture are original such as Faison but it’s just that I don’t think that match’s up to the culture seen in European counties.

  You’re really not missing much in the highlands, it’s a novelty for the first 5 minutes then you realise that you have to walk up a hill in the cold and rain, really not a good day out. You are right however we were blessed with brilliant accents, even if i do say so myself but so were the Irish!

• curmudgeon said on Oct 20, 2009....

  "...sophisticated cultural tradition as other countries for instance: art, music, theatre and literature."
  
  Uh, Jazz???  Jackson Pollack? William Faulkner? Mark Twain? Tennessee Williams? Alvin Ailey? Orson Welles? John Ford? Martin Scorsese? Clint Eastwood? Lawrence Kasdan?  Ansel Adams? Robert Johnson? Thelonius Monk? BB King? Bob Dylan?
  
  Jimi Fucking Hendrix????
  
  Dude, what are you talking about?
  
  The USA has produced some of the greatest innovators in the arts, literature and music the world has ever seen, all in just a two hundred year span of history. Maybe our stuff isn't not a thousand years old or whatever, but we have a tradition of constantly inventing new things and giving new life to old forms.
  
  Of course we have our vapid train wrecks like Brittany Spears and Lindsey Lohan and Air Supply and the Pet Shop Boys...oh no, those guys are Brits, but it's really quite unfair to say our culture isn't on par with a bunch of stuffy Euro-snots. Our cultural achievements run across so many forms of expression we as Americans don't even have a full appreciation of all we've accomplished in just two centuries.
  
  Anyway, at least we agree on one thing - Scotch and Irish accents are just fantastic to listen to.
  

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