Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti- English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.Peter Hitchens
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The English are the only people in the world who, when they emigrate, take their language with them. It is partly for this reason that people in the new country cannot understand them. It is partly for this reason that they do not like English people when they visit their country. The British have a little pride of their own and they resent being treated as though they were just a pack of Englishmen. The American's dislike of British people is a combination of ignorance and prejudice.
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