How Americans view the British

[I_am_not_mafia]

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.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Americans view EVERYONE as inferior, I think.

Boru

It's fair enough though.
They did single-handedly win WWII.

Not sure about that, but I do know that George Washington build the pyramids and Benjamin Franklin invented the telephone.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Best cheese I've ever had was made by the Amish in Indiana, but I suppose their could always be better cheese.  If I figure out where it is, I'm going there.

Cheshire

That's a funny way to spell 'Gloucester'. 


Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ten year old cheddar does just fine for me.

[T0 Th3 M4X]

Best cheese I've ever had was made by the Amish in Indiana, but I suppose their could always be better cheese.  If I figure out where it is, I'm going there.

Cheshire

I'm there!  Just hope it's not a cheese scam.  Some jerk tried to trick me into eating some used cheese with a bunch of holes in it.

[Aliza]

Inferior? Wow, no. Definitely not. American media seems to think that we'll defer to the "superior authority" of someone with a British accent. Like somehow being British makes you an automatic expert in culinary arts, the hospitality industry, singing, dancing, and pretty much everything in between.

Well they do make good pastries...

As I was reading this post, the fucking Cottonelle commercial came on with the British woman boasting about how the ripples in her toilet paper scoop shit out of your ass better than the other brand.

[Anomalocaris]

i just searched the thread title on
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americans view british people as inferior i think

Americans view EVERYONE as inferior, I think.

Boru

Americans are taught that fake confidence instilled by bullying and chest beating are effective loser’s cure for justified sense of inferiority.

[T0 Th3 M4X]

Americans view EVERYONE as inferior, I think.

Boru

Americans are taught that fake confidence instilled by bullying and chest beating are effective loser’s cure for justified sense of inferiority.

What Americans?  Usually it's the opposite.  We try to get rid of the bullying, but it's also a personal choice if someone wants to be a bully.  Oftentimes it's also about the bully feeling inferior.  I know with kids, many of them get bullied by their parents, so they go to school and try to do it to validate themselves.

[Aliza]

Regarding Great Britain, when I bail on the US cause our "President" flushes the country down the toilet, Great Britain is high on the list of countries I'm potentially fleeing to.

Just saying.

[Fireball]

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.