How Americans view the British

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If I'm painting the British with one broad stroke, the one thing that really sticks out to me is a lack of innovation. Americans are less afraid to buck tradition and question the status quo. The British are more reserved and therefore less inclined to believe that just because something hasn't been done doesn't mean that it can't be done.

Americans are all, "Fuck yeah! Let's do this!" British people are more like, "Hold on now. That's not how we do things around here."

This is totally unfair to the sourpuss, stick-in-the-mud Americans or the trailblazing Brits, but that's how I see the overall trends.

My view is quite opposite. The Americans will try and sell whatever they can before it even works so they can easily lie about how innovative they are. Whereas the Brits can be extremely innovative, they do things on the cheap which can take longer but are really, really crap at selling whatever they produce. The Americans normally buy up whatever we innovate and then sell it as their own.

The Germans on the other hand make the best engineers but this makes them less good at innovation.

That may be true for a fair amount of enterprises, but I worked as an engineer for many years and if we sold shit to the gov, we burned. There was generally a government quality assurance presence that aided in ensuring we made a product that performed as required. Anything I worked on certainly did work as contracted, and in many cases exceeded the requirements.