Current Events > I don't think the closest country to Britain, for culture, is America.

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I'd say Australia. The UK and Australia had roughly the same culture (sort of), have a monarch, the same monarch, and the way the two countries speak it quite similar, saying things like "mate" and some of the same swear words.

What do you think of this?

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i think nigeria is the closest in culture

Canada?
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Australia is certainly closer than the US

But as for closest? I don't necessarily think that's the case
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I'd have figured New Zealand to be slightly more similar.
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What about Ireland?
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America is hardly comparable to any country I can think of. Canada in certain areas where there's blending over but that's it.
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were becoming more american

look at our attitude towards immigrants, even legal immigrants from the wind rush generation

were working more hours, corporations are gaining more power and social welfare/nhs are being fucked over

theres a slow shift towards privatisation and why am i paying for others when it comes to tax
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Sativa_Rose posted...

What about Ireland?

Ireland has its Catholic tradition which England very, very strongly railed against.

If you're asking about the UK as a whole then you're asking for a headache. The Scots and the Irish have more in common than with the English, the Welsh do their own thing, but are more comparable to the Scots.

With England the South was settled most strongly by the French/Normans while the North was settled by the Norse and Danes. Add into the Saxon/German influence and there are a mix of connections.

For modern nations then I do think Australia is a pretty good match, at least in terms of attitude, Canada might be another with social structures, attitudes to services and standards required to be provided by the state. There's a comparable mix between rural and city with the prevailing attitudes as well when looking at Canada too. Canada though is more socially liberal than England.

There are far too many subdivisions within the US though to have a general culture. You've got North Eastern initial colonies, the Southern Hispanic Influence, the Northern German and Scandinavian influence and heritage. French in the South East. Add onto that the Non-European migration and culture shifts and it's too much of a melting pot to really come up with a general culture beyond: "Buy shit, buy all the shit and keep on buying it, don't forget though that the people over there are going to try and take it away from you so you need this really, really, really big military to protect you" If consumerism and fear are a culture then I guess that would be the US' culture.

England and the UK as a whole doesn't really have as much of a distinct culture now either. Where it was a nation that was built on international trade and conquest, it now just functions more as a discount US where consumerism and nostalgia are the governing influences.
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