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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Three years ago I was involved in a discussion that led to the War of 1812, and the idea of "who won". The United States tried to capture Canada, and failed miserably. Not really relevant, but what I said then I think ties in:
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That, I think, sums it up quite nicely and underlines the very strong American belief of 'Freedom' and 'Liberty' having grown up and out from an oppressive force to become a nation. Obviously, there are other factors as well, I think having rather passive neighbours for the past hundred years or so has also helped the American culture grow as well as perhaps polarise America and Europe where we've spent the past couple of centuries fine tuning new and exciting ways to kill each other.
Britain has been lucky in a sense that we have not been the subject of an invasion since the last visits from Dowly and friends although we have had a few try, and as such, we do not know that feeling of subjugation and of state control, on the contrary, we've usually been the ones dishing it out, well, up until relatively recently anyway.
American culture fascinates me because it is all so new, America is a very young nation and it's perhaps like a slice of our own history in a modern setting.