18th October 2011, 10:01 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'.
There's a difference between selectively importing bits of another culture and having it foisted upon you willy-nilly, so I don't see how it can be a valid comparison.
Prime practitioner of headology, with a side order of melting glass with a stern glare.