14th October 2011, 06:04 PM
Marcus Brody Wrote:I think the point that P Prentice was making is that 21st century Britain has the full cultural package from America, but that doesn't make the inhabitants American. For 'bread and Circuses, wine, minging fish sauce, straight roads, decent crockery, aquaducts, troops in skirts',read 'McDonalds and Friends, Coke, Lady Gaga and USAF bases'.
Not sure that's a good example, after all, all we're doing is largely re-importing an exported cultural package - if you want to hear the nearest you'll get to 17th century English go to 21st century New England...suspect PP was objecting to 'cultural package'?
Still not getting any closer to produce a testable model here to answer the question at the head of the thread? - sorry, getting dangerously close to suggesting science :0