What characteristics that distinguish English from the Americans?
I think that people fall into a reliance on racial stereotypes which don’t represent the majority of citizens in either country. What people are fooled by is the fact that we both speak English. And, contrary to poular belief, there is hardly ANY difference between British and American English. Brits and Americans are more likely to understand each other than people in different parts or, say, Germany can understand each other. – So language doesn’t divide us. What DOES divide us is our core beliefs. Britain – technically less democratic because of monarchy – I believe is more democratic. America uses FORCE and the DEATH PENALTY to maintain law and order. In building their culture they built in the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS into their culture – making them completely different to British people who don’t have the same sense of handling ULTIMATE JUSTICE as a right, or even an obligation. The PLEA BARGAINING system in the courts in America means that instaed of real justice, inoccent people hav
