LogFAQs > #970198216

FatalAccident posted...

why do Americans have such a weird disdain for British English?

Revelation34 posted...

It's the other way around.

It very much goes both ways.

If you spend enough time watching British YouTubers, you'll start to notice they tend to have this sort of indignant ignorance about 90% of American culture. It gets especially amusing or irritating when they're absolutely positive and definitive about something that they're 100% wrong about.

I can't even count on both hands and both feet the number of times I've heard a British YouTuber say something along the lines of "All Americans say/do this" and my immediate reaction is "I've literally never seen/heard anyone do that".

But Americans also tend to be defiantly rebellious with the mindset that there are only two ways to say or do anything in life - the American Way, and the wrong way. Everything that isn't familiar to us is foreign, and therefore bad.

The thing is, I'd argue that most people are like this. Humans tend to be xenophobic as part of inherent human nature. It's just that most cultures are either more inclined to lie about it or otherwise keep their mouths shut out of politeness (whereas Americans and the British tend to be more open and blunt about a lot of things), or are simply less represented on English-speaking websites so you're less likely to encounter them in the first place (ie, you're going to see more Americans or British people online saying things than you are people from Burma or Paraguay).