British kids are more posh than American kids

[Anonymous]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1MkwUyYhMd/?mibextid=wwXIfr

The most random things pop into my feed, but this one prompted me to post here.

The link is to a video of British boys trying American food for the first time (fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, and sweet tea).

What’s immediately apparent is how polite and refined the British kids are. Their language skills and word choice are very different from what you would hear from any American kid…regardless of income or education.

Why?

And what can be done to improve things over here?

PS - The video is a fun watch.

[Anonymous]

Nobody uses Facebook Marge. Try an actual video link if you want people to comment on your America bashing nonsense.

[Anonymous]

https://youtu.be/KzdbFnv4yWQ?si=d-Y0SbppJd2XP3bf

Longer version of the video on YouTube

[Anonymous]

There are plenty of polite and well spoken kids in the US. You just don't know any.

[Anonymous]

Selection bias.

[Anonymous]

Is it the accent or the outfits that are impressing you? They sound very similar to American boys of similar age at our school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of polite and well spoken kids in the US. You just don't know any.

I do.

But the point is that we should see this across the board in middle class America yet we do not…particularly in the dc metro area.

Fwiw, British kids wear uniforms to school; it doesn’t mean they are affluent.

[Anonymous]

Lol.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure they picked polite kids, maybe from a posh school like one of our private schools here where mostly wealthy kids go, and the videos are undoubtedly edited.

That said, I love those videos! Their reactions are often hilarious.

[Anonymous]

There are super trashy people everywhere, in every country, including the UK.

Chav culture is about trashy as you can get — it's like if you took the Jersey Shore crowd and made them stupid.

[Anonymous]

I'm assuming this is Jolly. They did a video of American high schoolers trying British foods, and the American kids were perfectly polite.

It's part of the point -- watching people try to be polite about foodthey don't like

[Anonymous]

I think British children have a better vocabulary than American children of the same age. Parents are more involved and they would be mortified if their children spoke like Americans.
They don't dumb down conversations and they realize children can learn to converse in big words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think British children have a better vocabulary than American children of the same age. Parents are more involved and they would be mortified if their children spoke like Americans.
They don't dumb down conversations and they realize children can learn to converse in big words.

Wow, no. Where did you live in the UK?

The percentages of well-spoken kids and involved parents in the UK are the same as in the US. It’s just that people in the US are so charmed by the British accent and associate it with posh tv shows and period dramas, they think the speaker must be smarter and more sophisticated than that kid with the Texas twang.

[Anonymous]

Good for them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are super trashy people everywhere, in every country, including the UK.

Chav culture is about trashy as you can get — it's like if you took the Jersey Shore crowd and made them stupid.

Made them? They are!