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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^I am the OP of this thread and of course I didn't make it based on "one British person was rude to me one time".  Actually I frequent the Daily Mail, and, while of course the comment section there is notorious trash, I am shocked by the level of highly upvoted comments bashing Americans.  You don't see the reverse.  Yes, it's a British paper- but comments bashing Brits wouldn't make it to the top of any American newspaper I can think of.  Another thing- last season of Big Brother, the American contestants, with one exception, were all voted out first.  The nice ones, who did nothing to rock the vote- out.  Of course, we can talk all day about CBB being lowest common denominator- but these are platforms that have mass audiences, that truly check the pulse of a nation and the deeply ingrained beliefs.  When article after article has Brits upvoting rude remarks about Americans (and, btw- down voting any comebacks Americans give, so it's not just about a sense of humor) and the widely viewed television shows target Americans, then we have a real anti-American sentiment that isn't even attempted to be covered up.

Additionally, if you can't already tell, I watch a lot of British television and read a lot of British work and I think "rude" is exactly how I would class a lot of the behavior.  Of course there is an argument to be made for "television is not representative of a nation" but in a way it is- just as it says something about America that Carrie Underwood is the most successful American Idol of all time, etc.

Also- my personal experiences have also borne this out.  I would generally not ever try to make that kind of observation unless I had viewed it across multiple platforms, not just- oh, i met this lady once who had a British accent and she was rude.  I'm genuinely curious as to this cultural difference that I (and others) have observed[/quote]

If you think the Daily Mail is bad, you should have read the Guardian comments section back in the day, before they clamped down. After 9-11 there was a thread about "Kentucky Fried Americans." [/quote]

Oh yes.  That's what's really gotten me.  Seeing nasty comments after the hurricane hit Houston- I mean seriously?  What is wrong with you?  Of course there are nuts in every comment section but you would see these comments get heavily upvoted, and of course Americans being referred to as "dumb yanks" and people would up vote it.  I truly cannot imagine, after a massive tragedy, Americans uprooting comments about "Dumb Brits" and being really vicious about it.  In fact, I was trying to think of a slur for Brits- and we don't even have one!!  That's proof right there of the difference...[/quote]

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