September 4, 2008
The Anglo Files
I have known more than a few Brits in my day but I wish could tell you whether this was substantively true. It is, however, damn funny:
“We look to the future; they look to the past,” she writes. “We run for election; they stand for it. We noisily and proudly proclaim our Americanness; they shuffle their feet and apologize for their Britishness.”
and later:
“Britons trying to boast,” she tells us, “are typically like acrophobes walking along a cliff: It frightens them and makes them feel sick.”
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It’s just history. Another thousand years of the stuff and Americans will most likely be shuffling their feet also…