Love for Britain, love for America, no love for France?

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**Henners91**

They were the foremost military power of Europe for a good period of time, this was reinforced by WWI...

Unfortunately, "that" little episode happened and now nobody'll ever let them live it down

**Henners91**

thenoobbomb wrote:

My point is that nearly everyone in the UK thinks that they are the centre of the world, and most important. And Ive been there a lot on holiday

It is the centre of the world; world maps all supposedly have their centres run right across Greenwich

Pax Britannica eh?

**Henners91**

thenoobbomb wrote: Well, kind people, take a look at the BBC news. While the international news has: 'DSK has been arrested!'
UK BBC news has: 'Kitten falls out of tree in Londen!' because there aint other news from da UK...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

That's not what I see?

**Henners91**

thenoobbomb wrote:May I say that we people dont love Brittain over here?
Because for example the Brittain news:
Brittain welcomes Obama
The queen and a daily trip
[insert soe other Brittain related stuff here]
To be short, there is olny stuff about Brittain on the news there.

To just rub the front page of BBC News in your face again...

-Mladic removed from Hague court
-Japanese man admits Hawker's death
-Thai PM-elect to 'form a coalition'
-Turkey recognises Libyan Rebels
-Japan finds Pacific rare earths
-India's sharp-shooting granny

So sorry, clearly we do take interesting stuff from other nations... are you just resentful that we don't cover all the windmills you guys presumably build (I wouldn't know, I don't get the opportunity to read about other countries after all...)?

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thenoobbomb wrote:
wow!
Its mostly TV.

It is?

Meh, I'm calling trollface...

Go grow some tulips.

**Henners91**

@purplefood

I think you're taking the whole 'don't call us Great Britain' thing a bit far. It's a legitimate point that said country doesn't exist, but I believe it is still perfectly acceptable to refer to the citizens of the United Kingdom as 'the British'.... after all, said Kingdom originally spanned the entirety of the isles and I doubt that the Irish want to be sullied by a name commonly associated with their Anglo-led oppressors.

**Henners91**

halonachos wrote:The east coast isn't very posh, but then again the east coast ranges from Maine all the way down to Florida. Now if you want to say New England then that's where the majority of the 'posh' is located. New England was founded by puritans trying to escape England compared to the southern colonies which were founded for profit.

The south had more ties to England than the north because of this, in fact during the Civil War the british aided the CSA , and a lot of the plantation houses were modeled after European designs. The idea of the 'southern gentleman' also followed suit. As far as people hating the french, the english had good cause to as much as the french had cause to hate the english.

The English directly founded the south for economic reasons and were basically employed by the English and had closer ties to 'Father England' compared to the North. Hatred of the French is genetic and passed on to the South which thinks that all frenchmen wear perfume and wave white flags compared to most of the north which is more open to the french.

As far as the french go and my personal interactions with them, I will have to gauge them on the french-canadians who are snobby a-holes. I would know because half my family decends from Quebec, with some bit of Austrian in there as well.

Speaking of which, Austria also produces Riesling wine.

I will have to say this though, you Brits will have to get over people calling you Great Britain. We accept you calling us the United States and saying things like "I'm going to the states.". Which state, we have 50 of the damned things and then some territories for crying out loud! Although Texas counts as an independent country most of the time.

Where does Louisiana fit into all of this?