• KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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    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.

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    23 hours ago

    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?

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        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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            america is also composed of spanish irish italian black dutch native American german asian culture to name a few

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            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.

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      23 hours ago

      America’s founding was a bunch of British rejects and people deemed “too annoying for Europe”, along with their kidnapped, angry slaves.

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    23 hours ago

    I grew up playing Runescape and I’ve chatted with enough british people over voice enough times to know the truth.