UK vs USA vs Canada vs Australia (high school, architecture)
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the humongous Irish American community feels closer to Ireland
Minnesota with its massive Scandinavian community feels closer to scandinavia
Russian Americans have a connection with Russia.
I'd say Americans feel closer to Ireland if anything "on average that is" Americans often romanticize Ireland, and paint the Irish as interesting, fun, folkloric. That is probably the European country most Americans at least tend to think of or talk about generally.
The British on the other hand are largely ignored generally, and often seen as having cool accents, invading hollywood, and as a place you go if you want to go to Europe because London is there!
All this mother britain and the other side of the pond, and the special relationship it's British delusions! America doesn't think about that stuff.
I'll grant you some points for Ireland, but...
For people raised in the US...
Italian-Americans are way more likely to know Shakespeare than Dante Alighieri.
Scandinavian-Americans are way more likely to know Charles Dickens than Henrik Ibsen.
Russian-Americans are way more likely to know Elton John than Boris Grebenshikov.
Re Obama's comment about America and France having a special relationship, I doubt it was a true faux pas. He's smart enough to be cognizant of that term's use in reference to British/American relations. Obama definitely had an animus towards Britain.
The British have traditionally viewed America from a very particular type of way. -Almost in a stalking kind of way if you might say-
Britain has always been willing to give itself to America so that America can go around the world causing chaos and benefitting from it, on the other hand America being so self-absorbed, they tend to not care much about Britain or anything else other than America for that matter.
The special relationship is a one way street, ironically enough its the British (the ones who try to benefit the other party) the ones who tend to acknowledge and value such term, while most Americans (the ones who don't give anything in return but get all the benefits) are generally oblivious in regards to the so called special relationship.
In fact the wikileaks scandal revealed how US politicians in London and DC would send each other emails talking about how desperate the British are when it comes to trying to be a part of the whole US world scheme.
]come on you know really well you Brits are overdosed with US media[/b], your politicians talk to you so much about the US that you end up believing the US is some sort of Britain on the other side of the pond.
Then you visit America and the shock of reality sets in. "Comes out you're more European than you thought, and you have very little in common with America" .
Don't think I've never spoken to many Brits about this.
Ignoring just means what I am saying actually makes you uncomfortable because it's true!
Well, you'll be banned again very shortly anyway, so that's one reason to not enter into any kind of debate with you, but you constantly make such sweeping generalisations and base your opinions on very little experience, it's pointless. And it's always easy to spot you because you keep repeating yourself.
Friendliness: USA/Canada
Location: UK
Lifestyle: Australia
Weather: Australia
Nightlife: UK
Tourist attractions: USA
Economic diversity: USA
Cultural contribution: UK
Urban living: UK
History: UK
Architecture: UK
Transportation: UK
Education: Canada
Natural scenery: USA
Cost of Living: USA
Political Stability: Canada
The Politics: Canada
Economical Stability: Canada
Fun: USA
Friendliness: USA/Canada
Location: UK
Lifestyle: Australia
Weather: Australia
Nightlife: UK
Tourist attractions: USA
Economic diversity: USA
Cultural contribution: UK Urban living: UK
History: UK
Architecture: UK
Transportation: UK
Education: Canada
Natural scenery: USA
Cost of Living: USA
Political Stability: Canada
The Politics: Canada Economical Stability: Canada
Fun: USA
Urban living is UK? If you live in the UK, your only options are London and then a huge drop-off to B-list cities that are pretty unremarkable. I don't see how that compares to the U.S. with 21 cities that anchor CSAs over 3,000,000 people.
Canada's economy is also built on oil prices and a housing bubble. Stable is the last thing I would call it!
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