Do yankees really fetishize the brits? If anything I feel like they are looked down upon lol. Funny accent, bad teeth, weird food, worshipping a pedophile king…
I think Americans certainly used to fetishize the brits. “Hot guy with a British accent” hasn’t been a stereotype for like ever for no reason but that being said I haven’t heard anyone say that in at least a decade and we most certainly do shit on the brits extensively nowadays
I think that as Amerikkkans got more exposed to non-English Europeans online, they got more and more exposed to the view of the English as obnoxious tourists with an outsized sense of their own importance.
imo it was more that they got exposed to working class brits beyond just british musicians of a working class background, basically every trait of britishness fetishised abroad is a trait of the middle/upper classes and basically every trait mocked is overwhelmingly a british working class trait.
This has been my joke for years, Japan is the England of the east. But at least the English enjoy vegetables, beans, and fruits that’re relatively cheap, affordable, and more important than anything else plentiful in general society.
Red thing on white background flags
Right hand drive
Constitutional monarchies
Binge drinking
Auto industry
Tea drinking
Eels are a popular food item
They’re basically the same country.
Beans for breakfast
Fish sauce
Cultural obsession with swordsmen that follow a strict code of honor
Persecuted Catholics in the 16 and 17th centuries
Bad at their most popular sport 😏
Desu ne = innit
Also
Narrow streets and (waning in the UK) affinity for compact cars.
Similarly strict gun control
Fetishized by Americans
Do yankees really fetishize the brits? If anything I feel like they are looked down upon lol. Funny accent, bad teeth, weird food, worshipping a pedophile king…
Did you not see the inauguration or the royal wedding?
Good point, but no I didn’t watch that garbage. I guess some yanks really do hate themselves :)
To be fair I love British comedy; no beating red dwarf; never stale enough to not want another season
I think Americans certainly used to fetishize the brits. “Hot guy with a British accent” hasn’t been a stereotype for like ever for no reason but that being said I haven’t heard anyone say that in at least a decade and we most certainly do shit on the brits extensively nowadays
I think that as Amerikkkans got more exposed to non-English Europeans online, they got more and more exposed to the view of the English as obnoxious tourists with an outsized sense of their own importance.
imo it was more that they got exposed to working class brits beyond just british musicians of a working class background, basically every trait of britishness fetishised abroad is a trait of the middle/upper classes and basically every trait mocked is overwhelmingly a british working class trait.
This has been my joke for years, Japan is the England of the east. But at least the English enjoy vegetables, beans, and fruits that’re relatively cheap, affordable, and more important than anything else plentiful in general society.
This explains so much