British Culture Minus America

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Somethingthecatdraggedin7 · 29/03/2025 12:06

Considering America is no longer a friend and ally I wonder if there will be a gradual lessening of the americanisation of our culture?
I realise of course that some really good and useful things have travelled across the pond but there are many, many not so good things which have slipped into our language, behaviour and expectations.
I think the US is on the whole a negative influence on us in the UK, especially younger people, in a way which is entirely different to the more subtle additions of influence from other nations.
The enormous prevalence of their films and tv series have changed a generations idea of normality in all areas of life.
I am hoping that out of the current orange shit show at least one positive can be that we stop future generations wanting to be pseudo Americans.
YABU America is a wonderful influence on UK culture
YANBU Goodbye US and good riddance

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Doingtheboxerbeat · 29/03/2025 17:53

Whatever we think, the US is about to get a lot bigger and a smidge closer if Trump gets his mitts on Greenland.
The audacity is breathtaking and I haven't seen such exceptionalism since we were doing the it back in the day.

Jasmin71 · 29/03/2025 17:58

mathanxiety · 29/03/2025 17:22

Britain was a totalitarian state for hundreds of years, exporting its wretched poor and those it deemed criminals (poachers, petty thieves, etc). It put the rights of property ahead of the rights of people. Its treatment of Ireland and the Irish was brutal.

Someone needs to examine British history through the prism of totalitarianism, religious intolerance, and class oppression. The British state provided the blueprint for the Bolsheviks' suppression of organised religion and for oppressive governments everywhere, as well as the economic exploitation and cultural ruin of colonised lands and their peoples.

At least there was a time when the descendants of those who fled or were transported out of Britain tried to do better (and working with the descendants of millions of people from other parts).

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I was not condoning our behaviour, just trying provide an amusing anecdote

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