Thread: Seriousness US/Europe Cultural Divide -- Musings
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Old 04-16-2009, 03:40 AM   #325
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I find it interesting how many things are considered to be a "fundamental human right" that no government would have dreamed of funding 100 years ago.
You mean like the UK outlawing slavery in 1957 and the Australians recognising aborigines as human beings in 1968? Plus la change, old chap. Oddly, women having the vote is not much over 100 years old, despite them paying taxes even in the US for more than 200 years. I think the Australians really should have changed in 1946, on the centenary of New Zealand doing the same thing. Just to make a point, you know.

There are more cultural similarities between the US and UK than differences, especially as seen from anglonesia. A lot flows from the nature of empire, both countries having a long-time habit of exporting their attitudes. I mean, we get TV and movies from both places and they're depressingly similar, as is the bought media. Then there's the "separated by a common language" thing and oddities like the US still using imperial measurements while the UK has switched to the French system. What's with the imperial units - do you just like the name? It's not as if you even *have* a king to base your measurements on.
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