British kids are more posh than American kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Southern kids have way better manners than kids around the DMV. It’s just part of the culture. Not all kids, and it’s more similar across the upper classes. The difference in the south is that even the middle class kids are taught manners and dressed up nicely.

Maybe, but they have terrible southern accents that sound MAGA, not " posh".

[Anonymous]

Southern accents do not equal MAGA.

I live in the south, and my area votes R 66%, D 33%. Almost everyone (but me) has an accent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Southern accents do not equal MAGA.

I live in the south, and my area votes R 66%, D 33%. Almost everyone (but me) has an accent.

Read what I wrote..."sound" MAGA and more often than not, they are!

[Anonymous]

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

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These kids are completely normal, not "posh" or any different from American kids. What a bizarre thread.

[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.

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[Anonymous]

I lived in London and taught there for a few years. Their inner city state schools are in chaos and full of thugs, just like ours. Their teacher retention crisis is worse than in the US. The think they might have more kids who are EAL too, and lots of parents who can’t speak English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

ummmm no. That is the same way US private school kids act. UK is behind US in almost every measure of education. Not sure you are onthe righ track here.

[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.

This is such an amusing generalization. Plenty of American parents speak to their children using "big words" as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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It's such a myth that all (or even most) Brits speak like the actors we see on TV and in movies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on their accents these are clearly UMC kids. Their parents and teachers have spent *years* building these language skills and manners. Prioritizing this takes time, effort, money, and buy-in. US culture would need to change drastically if we wanted to recreate this over here.

And UMC American kids are the same way, with equally involved parents. Now show a video of LMC kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noticed that most adult Brits also have good manners. Everyone says, yes, please, thank you, etc. and are calm and measured. (Not drunk soccer hooligans but in other situations.)

Is this satire? The UK is full of different kinds of people, just like the US. And there are *plenty* of flat-out rude British people. This thread seems to have been started by someone who has never even been to the UK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in London and taught there for a few years. Their inner city state schools are in chaos and full of thugs, just like ours. Their teacher retention crisis is worse than in the US. The think they might have more kids who are EAL too, and lots of parents who can’t speak English.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Southern kids have way better manners than kids around the DMV. It’s just part of the culture. Not all kids, and it’s more similar across the upper classes. The difference in the south is that even the middle class kids are taught manners and dressed up nicely.

Maybe, but they have terrible southern accents that sound MAGA, not " posh".

There are posh southern accents just and dumber ones, just like in the north or midwest or anywhere.

These kids are the same as American kids. Different word choice maybe but very comparable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:British kids take a lot more hard drugs and drink a lot more alcohol than American kids.

Ever met a Brit on four pills of ecstasy? Total degenerates.

Or on 4 pints of beer. If not, just go to Newcastle and walk around on any day at any time. Grandma will be our drunk with her daughter and granddaughter all in stilettos and miniskirts. Super trashy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most American kids don’t have manners, can’t make eye contact and carry on a coherent conversation. It’s a result of the American culture and education.

No, you have a sampling bias from your home. If you come to my house you will see very well manners kids who surround themselves with well mannered friends.