Having been to England numerous times I can say they are not nearly as attractive as coastal Americans. The guy on bottom is their default in character creator probably in line at Greg's for a sausage roll or six.
Nah... I'm central European and that is not even close. Maybe for Europeans living near low cost turist atrections?
Where I live English are maybe seen a bit posh, thinking thay are too special to be EU, decendents of big bed imperialist and such. While the scots are seen as trying to cosplay scandinavian. And I'm sorry to say we do not have any stereotype for the Welsh and Northern Irish whatsoever.
Which Americans are we talking? Because a Yooper, Scots-Irish Appalachian, Cajun Louisianan, and some poor bastard from Baker California have little in common. Hell I'm a Southern Californian Redneck and frankly if I have to interact with my Northern Californian ilk I'm stabbing someone and dumping their corpse in an open mine shaft.
I grew up redneck in a red area and most of the reason I still identify with the label is the realization that Mexicans, the Vietnamese, and pretty much every other culture also has rednecks (those are just the main ones I've seen on YouTube shorts). We're inevitable.
Well that and also a lot of us North American ones can trace our culture back to the Unions of old and to a more abstract extent a Scottish striker group who were also called Rednecks, so we have that to take pride in really it's mostly the boomers and Gen X who tarnished our name silent, greatest, and lost were proper feral and militant against the corporations at times. But yeah Redneckism is basically the inevitable end result of people being too smart, unwise, and not having enough money to do a job proper proper.
While that may be true it's very much in the same way that Roman culture is the basis and founding of Modern Romantic cultures. It's to degrees and the more derived and hybridized the individual cultures are the more distant they become, not even accounting for cultural drift by time alone.
But I will also note that I don't think the US has a united culture and what is often seen as a Pan American culture is moreso a side effect of the post World Wars migration, the migrations of the great depression/dust bowl, and the yuppies migrating about creating a rough amalgam culture that often out populates the older more divergent regional cultures. Basically if you think of a cultureless suburbanite that's the thing I'm talking about. Also I think mass media reinforced the whole thing.
Even small countries like The Netherlands have loads of cultural differences, of course the US has that.
Doesn't change the fact that we are all Dutch and you are all American's.
America also has the weird thing that most of the stores and restaurants are chains apparantly. Or at least that is what most of the terminal online American's want us to believe.
Edit: the basis in things like school systems, suburbs and angelo-saxton company "culture" also don't help
Heres the thing I don't think there ever has been a unified American culture, as soon as assholes started to step off this boats there was already inevitable cultural divergences happening, for example the Massachusetts Puritans who were theocratically driven, the Marylanders who were driven by proto-secular ideals, and Valirginians who were economically driven. While the Mid-Atlandit and New England cultures did reconverge over the last century of so, Coastal Southern especially the rural variants is still noticeably divergent from the rest of the east coast.
Also I'm just gonna note that everything you listed is caused by top down economic pressures that are arguably on the verge of collapse. One of the things you have to factor into your analysis of American cultures is that all of them are subject to federal level pressures meaning that even the most communal cultures for example still have to participate in capitalism due to say taxes since that's basically the only way to earn cash. I suspect once the feds collapse you'll see a springtime of nations and the possible death of the Pan American amalgam culture, at least within the first 20 years or so.
No of course there isn't an unified American culture, but there are people hard at work at destroying all forms of culture in the US.
Yes there is top down economic pressure and a lot of fedaral pressure, but it is also just people choosing to do things a certain way. Going out and buying a coffee instead of using their drip coffee machine or buying an espresso machine. Shopping at Amazon, Walmart or whatever instead of supporting local businesses.
Working against people who are trying to create better walkable/bikeable neighbourhouds etc.
Sooner or later the current iteration of the US will fall and it will probably mean that the entire country falls apart. In some ways or another state's already function more like separate countries than in say the EU.
I'm from Jersey, which I call the California of the East coast (just tiny), and despite our size, the differences between north, central, south, northwest, west, Hudson/Essex, shore, are all incredibly well defined. I always get a kick out of folks from outside the US lumping all of us together. Like, I can't even lump myself in with people 50 miles in literally any direction.
Little in common, besides all of them speaking English natively (including the Cajun) and sharing the same high level culture. And don't tell me it isn't the same because it 100% is.
While language influences culture and culture influences language they are not the same by any means. Plus within the last hundred years the US has become increasingly mono-lingual in favor of English, according to my great great aunt for example when she was a little girl her father would still speak to himself in a German dialect because German was his first language since he was from a German town. A lot of these minority languages have either naturally due to trade or whatnot or via force from the feds been on the decline or are now extinct some of which predated the founding of the US. A similar thing happened with a lot of regional dialects.
Also define so called high culture? Because frankly given how much of Europe once shared a Greco-Roman high culture irrespective of their own regional cultures I'm gonna call that a potential irrelevancy.
I once met a woman that was in her late 20s. Worked in tech for 3 years in Prague, and had a pretty TV style British accent.
She was from the Midwest. Spent 3 years in Prague and visited the UK like 3 times, then moved back to Chicago. Insisted she "worked with a lot of Brits and it just stuck."
Yeah, I've worked with a lot of tall people. Didn't make me grow taller.
Being below average height is where it's at. I rarely bump my head on anything. I'm a smaller target for gunfire (am American). I have never had an issue finding clothes or shoes in my size. The world is built for me. And I guess 5'8 ain't too short, but it's below average, and so I've accepted it.
She said she was in tech for some international company getting set up there. I can't recall the name, but it wasn't any company I recognized. This was also maybe 20 years ago she would have been there.
I was explaining to an English friend how people speaking with a Texan accent seem stupider to Americans. She replied, "Yeah we think the same about people with an American accent." I would have been offended, but like all Americans from the mid-Atlantic I don't have an accent. 😉
Unless it’s one of those incomprehensible accents that we can barely comprehend. It’s got to be an RP sounding accent for me to consider adding the IQ points.
It's a guy called Tango. Pretty much the opposite of what his appearance would suggest. Does a fair bit of charity work as well, after his daughter died.
I live in Jersey (New), but a friend of ours is from Scotland, our kids are all the same age. He and his family (when they were over for the World Cup) are all just super easy to shoot the shit with. Soft-spoken and an accent makes them difficult to understand at times, but cool people. Got nothing but good things to say about the Scots based off my limited experience.
‘Yeah well we were conquered a millennia ago, so actually you’re not allowed to complain about what is still ongoing to you‘ is the dumbest Brit cope I’ve run into. Implying they should be grateful for it is why Brits are still reviled.
How on earth have you read defensiveness into a 2 word comment. What shit has anyone started?
Commenter above was pointing out that most Brit hate in Ireland is of the fist shaking "hate the Brits on principal" rather than an active aggression and that Ireland trusts the UK to the point the UK in effect provides the maritime and air defence of Ireland.
Meanwhile you pop up with edgelord commentary apparently solely for the purpose of causing drama.
In addition to his other talents, this dude has some pipes. He killed it in the 25th anniversary of Les Mis on PBS, a production marred by casting a Jonas brother in an important part, but Matt Lucas was awesome as one of the innkeepers.
To me, the obvious answer is that humans were omnivores from the start. We have the forward facing eyes of predators, and teeth that can handle tearing and grinding.
Yeah probably, though more opportunistic than most people probably imagine. They'd likely only hunt when convenient, during migrations or such, and switch to different food sources the rest of the year. That's how I imagine it at least.
I dunno, I'm American and I can tell them apart. I can essentially understand the Brits, kinda understand the Scots, almost understand the Irish, and the Welsh are completely unintelligible.
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The top one is actually how Europeans think Americans see British people.
You might not remember we actually dumped the tea into the harbor.
We will never put beans on our toast.
You mean bri'ish people.
I'm curious, what accent is that ment to be?
Somewhere between Liverpool and London. Definitely not any northern or western of that.
Glottal stops are absolutely used in the north
As you leave the home countries, letters and even whole words will be omitted as part of the local dialect.
Most brits i think.
Funny way of spellin foo'ie innit
Having been to England numerous times I can say they are not nearly as attractive as coastal Americans. The guy on bottom is their default in character creator probably in line at Greg's for a sausage roll or six.
Nah... I'm central European and that is not even close. Maybe for Europeans living near low cost turist atrections? Where I live English are maybe seen a bit posh, thinking thay are too special to be EU, decendents of big bed imperialist and such. While the scots are seen as trying to cosplay scandinavian. And I'm sorry to say we do not have any stereotype for the Welsh and Northern Irish whatsoever.
British people are not particularly attractive and classy, but they are not particularly overweight.
So like... The US of Europe?
Almost, they know how to queue.
Something something apple, tree...
Something something shit, asshole...
What Brits actually look like
Are... are Brits the Americans of Europe???
Well America is a British bastard child.... The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
Where do you think Americans learned to be so cultured?
Which Americans are we talking? Because a Yooper, Scots-Irish Appalachian, Cajun Louisianan, and some poor bastard from Baker California have little in common. Hell I'm a Southern Californian Redneck and frankly if I have to interact with my Northern Californian ilk I'm stabbing someone and dumping their corpse in an open mine shaft.
I grew up redneck in a red area and most of the reason I still identify with the label is the realization that Mexicans, the Vietnamese, and pretty much every other culture also has rednecks (those are just the main ones I've seen on YouTube shorts). We're inevitable.
Well that and also a lot of us North American ones can trace our culture back to the Unions of old and to a more abstract extent a Scottish striker group who were also called Rednecks, so we have that to take pride in really it's mostly the boomers and Gen X who tarnished our name silent, greatest, and lost were proper feral and militant against the corporations at times. But yeah Redneckism is basically the inevitable end result of people being too smart, unwise, and not having enough money to do a job proper proper.
All of them I think? The Anglo Saxon culture still dominates and founded the basis of American culture itself.
america is also composed of spanish irish italian black dutch native American german asian culture to name a few
While that may be true it's very much in the same way that Roman culture is the basis and founding of Modern Romantic cultures. It's to degrees and the more derived and hybridized the individual cultures are the more distant they become, not even accounting for cultural drift by time alone.
But I will also note that I don't think the US has a united culture and what is often seen as a Pan American culture is moreso a side effect of the post World Wars migration, the migrations of the great depression/dust bowl, and the yuppies migrating about creating a rough amalgam culture that often out populates the older more divergent regional cultures. Basically if you think of a cultureless suburbanite that's the thing I'm talking about. Also I think mass media reinforced the whole thing.
The foundational European culture of California is Spanish.
Even small countries like The Netherlands have loads of cultural differences, of course the US has that.
Doesn't change the fact that we are all Dutch and you are all American's.
America also has the weird thing that most of the stores and restaurants are chains apparantly. Or at least that is what most of the terminal online American's want us to believe.
Edit: the basis in things like school systems, suburbs and angelo-saxton company "culture" also don't help
Heres the thing I don't think there ever has been a unified American culture, as soon as assholes started to step off this boats there was already inevitable cultural divergences happening, for example the Massachusetts Puritans who were theocratically driven, the Marylanders who were driven by proto-secular ideals, and Valirginians who were economically driven. While the Mid-Atlandit and New England cultures did reconverge over the last century of so, Coastal Southern especially the rural variants is still noticeably divergent from the rest of the east coast.
Also I'm just gonna note that everything you listed is caused by top down economic pressures that are arguably on the verge of collapse. One of the things you have to factor into your analysis of American cultures is that all of them are subject to federal level pressures meaning that even the most communal cultures for example still have to participate in capitalism due to say taxes since that's basically the only way to earn cash. I suspect once the feds collapse you'll see a springtime of nations and the possible death of the Pan American amalgam culture, at least within the first 20 years or so.
No of course there isn't an unified American culture, but there are people hard at work at destroying all forms of culture in the US.
Yes there is top down economic pressure and a lot of fedaral pressure, but it is also just people choosing to do things a certain way. Going out and buying a coffee instead of using their drip coffee machine or buying an espresso machine. Shopping at Amazon, Walmart or whatever instead of supporting local businesses.
Working against people who are trying to create better walkable/bikeable neighbourhouds etc.
Sooner or later the current iteration of the US will fall and it will probably mean that the entire country falls apart. In some ways or another state's already function more like separate countries than in say the EU.
I'm from Jersey, which I call the California of the East coast (just tiny), and despite our size, the differences between north, central, south, northwest, west, Hudson/Essex, shore, are all incredibly well defined. I always get a kick out of folks from outside the US lumping all of us together. Like, I can't even lump myself in with people 50 miles in literally any direction.
Yes.
depends on which brit we're talking
Little in common, besides all of them speaking English natively (including the Cajun) and sharing the same high level culture. And don't tell me it isn't the same because it 100% is.
While language influences culture and culture influences language they are not the same by any means. Plus within the last hundred years the US has become increasingly mono-lingual in favor of English, according to my great great aunt for example when she was a little girl her father would still speak to himself in a German dialect because German was his first language since he was from a German town. A lot of these minority languages have either naturally due to trade or whatnot or via force from the feds been on the decline or are now extinct some of which predated the founding of the US. A similar thing happened with a lot of regional dialects.
Also define so called high culture? Because frankly given how much of Europe once shared a Greco-Roman high culture irrespective of their own regional cultures I'm gonna call that a potential irrelevancy.
America's founding was a bunch of British rejects and people deemed "too annoying for Europe", along with their kidnapped, angry slaves.
Speak too loud? Get on the boat. Too religious? Get on the boat. Sold to us by West African slavers? Get on the boat.
I mean, Americans are a large and diverse group of people... But yes.
Yes, but at least we’re not the French.
An important point!
yes.
CAM ON INGERLAND
*Meanwhile in Germany*
Ein Poliziiist mit Elfenoooohrn
Meanwhile in Magaluf
I only see class. What's wrong with it?
EINS ZWEI POLIZEI
HgichT is peak culture.
SCOR SUM FACKIN GOOLS
It is the same guy though. What a proper suit can do to a person.
If you can do a reasonably standard English accent, Americans will mentally add 20 IQ points to how intelligent they perceive you to be.
I once met a woman that was in her late 20s. Worked in tech for 3 years in Prague, and had a pretty TV style British accent.
She was from the Midwest. Spent 3 years in Prague and visited the UK like 3 times, then moved back to Chicago. Insisted she "worked with a lot of Brits and it just stuck."
Yeah, I've worked with a lot of tall people. Didn't make me grow taller.
You should have worked with small people. That works better.
Can confirm.
Am short and have dragged many coworkers down from their lofty peaks to my dreaded land of needing step ladders.
Also occasionally delving too greedily and too deep.
Being below average height is where it's at. I rarely bump my head on anything. I'm a smaller target for gunfire (am American). I have never had an issue finding clothes or shoes in my size. The world is built for me. And I guess 5'8 ain't too short, but it's below average, and so I've accepted it.
5'9" if I'm not slouching. Which I do when I'm standing, so I look even shorter.
As a fellow Burgerreicher, I truly appreciate you pointing out that we're both smaller targets!
I wonder where she worked in Prague without the job being in Czech
She said she was in tech for some international company getting set up there. I can't recall the name, but it wasn't any company I recognized. This was also maybe 20 years ago she would have been there.
Tech or embassy
Tech she said, definitely wasn't embassy. What embassy would have Americans and people from the UK working together?
I was explaining to an English friend how people speaking with a Texan accent seem stupider to Americans. She replied, "Yeah we think the same about people with an American accent." I would have been offended, but like all Americans from the mid-Atlantic I don't have an accent. 😉
Everyone has an accent.
Dang, I heard this but with the Australian accent😆
Unless it’s one of those incomprehensible accents that we can barely comprehend. It’s got to be an RP sounding accent for me to consider adding the IQ points.
How British people see British people
I am a total badass! :D golden.
God, I’m a bastard!
No you're not... I think you're actually quite nice....
Europeans are right.
Europeans are not wrong.
*twizzles moustache villainously*
Why are there so many pictures of the specific guy on the bottom used when making fun of the UK? Is he a celebrity or influencer I'm unaware of?
It's a guy called Tango. Pretty much the opposite of what his appearance would suggest. Does a fair bit of charity work as well, after his daughter died.
Well shit. Now I feel bad for Lazerpig repeatedly using his picture when making fun of Brexit supporters
Guy who bangs big drum at England football games.
Nah. That's just you seeing a bunch of different people while thinking all Brits look alike.
I do have to defend the Scottish here.
To be fair, yes - I found the Scottish more approachable so far :)
I live in Jersey (New), but a friend of ours is from Scotland, our kids are all the same age. He and his family (when they were over for the World Cup) are all just super easy to shoot the shit with. Soft-spoken and an accent makes them difficult to understand at times, but cool people. Got nothing but good things to say about the Scots based off my limited experience.
How so?
With fire and trebuchets. Duh.
FREEEDOM!
I see them as the conquerors of Ireland and the villans in the majority of global conflicts.
The Celts conquered the Beaker people first. England was conquered by the Normans.
The Beaker people are the primary genetic ancestors of Irish people.
Aren't we all?
Exactly.
Celts didnt "conquer" the Beaker's.
Beaker people are part of the ancestry that developed into Celts.
I was being facetious. The Irish Brit bashing online is very tiresome. It's just bigotry.
Bigotry? Have you seen the bigotry that goes on in Northern Ireland in July every single year?
This is nothing compared to that.
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/29234-brits-increasingly-dont-care-whether-northern-irel
Okay? First commenter is still correct.
There are no good guys. Everyone has conquered or been conquered.
The Irish just like to shake their fists at us while we provide them with their national defence
Defence against what? Britians enemies?
Defend your own western flank. Its your problem, not ours.
I suggest you ask them
https://www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-tasked-to-defend-irish-airspace-during-eu-meeting/
I see NATO assests being deployed to protect NATO leaders against threats from NATO enemies.
So whats your point? The UK is doing this in its own interest, not in Ireland's interest.
Because Ireland can't defend itself.
‘Yeah well we were conquered a millennia ago, so actually you’re not allowed to complain about what is still ongoing to you‘ is the dumbest Brit cope I’ve run into. Implying they should be grateful for it is why Brits are still reviled.
It only ongoing in your head. Professional victim .
Dare you to go to an Irish bar and try saying that shit, lol
Whereas if you went into a British pub saying your crap, people would just laugh at you lol
Lol, drama much?
Don’t start shit if you can’t take shit 🤷♂️ Nobody asked you to come in here and make up some story about why Irish occupation is Good, Actually.
E: just realized this was a drive by comment and not the person I originally replied to, which makes the defensiveness even more bizarre.
How on earth have you read defensiveness into a 2 word comment. What shit has anyone started?
Commenter above was pointing out that most Brit hate in Ireland is of the fist shaking "hate the Brits on principal" rather than an active aggression and that Ireland trusts the UK to the point the UK in effect provides the maritime and air defence of Ireland.
Meanwhile you pop up with edgelord commentary apparently solely for the purpose of causing drama.
But Doctor, I am European.
I grew up playing Runescape and I've chatted with enough british people over voice enough times to know the truth.
Eh, we're not all like dat, ya cheeky git!
Seeing people through movies vs tourists.
How I want to see British people
Unfortunately it's more like this
Unfortunately, it's more like this
I lived in the UK for several years, this is definitely the most accurate picture of this thread!
Chavs or posh and no in between. I am American and this is what I learned in social studies.
Nor but, yah but, nor
Computer says no
*Computuh sez nou
That one.
In addition to his other talents, this dude has some pipes. He killed it in the 25th anniversary of Les Mis on PBS, a production marred by casting a Jonas brother in an important part, but Matt Lucas was awesome as one of the innkeepers.
I mean... I don't know that ALL British people would look good in that
Slaps on calculator
How Europeans see Americans.
They seem very divisibled right now.
Simple as, innit bruv?
What about the TERFs?
BANG BANG
BANG BANG
BANG BANG
Cack. There's a word I've not heard for a long time. Also not heard cackers for a long time.
They could be from the same British town
Came here to say this, our class system sucks balls.
How Spaniards see British People (symbolic depiction using non-human parts): ::: spoiler spoiler
:::
EDIT: Added a spoiler to hide the NSFW content.
::: spoiler spoiler They fall off balconies when drunk on holiday :::
They don't fall, they jump trying to land inside the hotel's pool.
They fall in canals and some Lemming makes memes about it
British people are trans and laid flat against tile, got it.
goals tbh
Why is the egg NSFW and should we be concerned?
They have a hobby: they get drunk and jump off their hotels' balconies trying to land in the pool with different degrees of success.
Humans are traditionally endurance hunters, running things down.
This should have prevented run-away belly fat storage like that.
The Starch Runner Hypothesis seems more plausible to me.
TIL.
To me, the obvious answer is that humans were omnivores from the start. We have the forward facing eyes of predators, and teeth that can handle tearing and grinding.
Yeah probably, though more opportunistic than most people probably imagine. They'd likely only hunt when convenient, during migrations or such, and switch to different food sources the rest of the year. That's how I imagine it at least.
similar to gorillas then?
Both are correct.
Gotta be more specific. Scot, Irish, English or Welsh?
The Irish aren't British.
Why? They all act terrible on vacation, and Americans can't tell them apart. 😄
I dunno, I'm American and I can tell them apart. I can essentially understand the Brits, kinda understand the Scots, almost understand the Irish, and the Welsh are completely unintelligible.
familiarity breeds contempt
You wish... this is how we-eu sees murican (at young age, while mature muricans are twice that fatty).
IM FORVER BLOWING BUBBLES, PRETTY BUBBLES IN THE AIR! WESTHAM! WESTHAM!
Apart from the west ham part kids used to sing that about Michael Jackson at school when I was a kid.
Hi, I'm Bubbles
*soccer.