Here's one reason for the difference. In the US the Hays Code (1937-68 .. before the ratings system) encouraged a happy ending in movies and TV. Being huge entertainment consumers, generations of Americans were influenced by that. Hays also had firm rules and guidelines toward respecting religion, showing long kisses or couples in the sane bed, anti-government dialog, swearing, *white* slavery, sympathy for criminals (white hat, black hat) and use of the flag. So in addition to happy endings, entertainment also conveyed morality.
😢 "bloody American puritanical moralising rubbish..." I'm sooo glad I'm English and born and live here in Britain - for all of its faults, I wouldn't swap my life here for a life in the USA.😊❤🏴🇬🇧🖖
Brits are the kind of people who will see the Titanic being launched and hailed as 'Unsinkable', express their cynicism, and when it gets clobbered by the iceberg, say 'Told yer...'
When i came to America my then father-in-law told me here in America you can do anything, he didn't mention to do that you have to work your bollocks off, and with my British work ethic in stilled in me that didnt work, I'm getting by but 23 years of living in America and I'm still no further than i was when i stepped off the plane
"All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others" that's England as animal farm ❤ BUT.. also I think if you fall in America like your in a American football team and you keep losing every time all the people won't stop telling you, you failed and that's depressing, where is in England if you lose no one will make you feel bad because you did your best ❤I'm just saying as a west English person. "Gurt lush"
@@weejackrussell 👍😊 yeah in America you have more expectations about you well as in England we don't care, as long if it's what you want t to do. No matter if you win or lose. Bless the UK 😭 no patreaonism here I'm so thankful lol 😆
🐴🇬🇧🐴 "I truly believe, the best of my fun, I owe it to horse and hound."🐴🏴🐴 I don't know who wrote that, originally, (I used to, but with the passing years I forget names!) But it's the 'banner' across the top of the _weeklyly_ - every Thursday - magazine called "The Horse and Hound" (& _yes_ I used to buy it, I only stopped when cataracts formed so I could no longer see... post-op now, I'd like to read it again but my daughter/carer says she never sees it in the local shops... Truth be told, she rarely goes out early enough, so it's probably just sold out by the time she gets into 'town'!😢) Ah well, c'est la vie?! 🤔🐴❤️🏴🇬🇧🖖
I am reminded of Flanders & Swann’s comic classic ‘A Song of Patriotic Prejudice’ when singing about foreigners’ deplorable attitudes to sport: ‘They practice beforehand/They cheer when they win’. I also remember the prologue to the film ‘Patton’ when George C Scott delivers what I understood to be a close copy of an actual address by the General in which he mentions inter alia that he wouldn’t give a (something or other) for ‘someone who lost - and laughed’.
There is still a class system in the UK but it is less important than say fifty or sixty years ago. Basically Lower class/working class, middle class and upper class. Contrary to the video I think the lower and upper classes rub along quite nicely together it is the middle classes that tend to be the fly in the ointment both resenting the upper class and feeling superior to the working class.
I think the class system of old is largely gone now. Or at least, it's more possible to move about a bit. Except for "entitled" or "inherited" class. Why does nobody use those terms? Because it makes it too obvious, maybe?
I know that "all men are created equal" has been one part of the constitution in USA that is truly difficult for the rest of the world to agree with - the caveat in this being that people without the "right" kind of skin in the USA have not, and are still not, in many communities, considered equal at all. That has always been bone of contention for other cultures who feel that egality does not change according to one's skin colour - and hearing/seeing all the racism that is confirmed by UA-cam has been a shock to millions of people. And also, a country where women's rights are in the hands of 'old, white guys', is a horrifying dystopia the 21st Century. So I've never really considered that the people in the USA and those in GB have as much of a bond as UA-cam tries to push? I'm not, for a moment, saying we don't/can't have good relations with each other: simply that our cultural differences are far wider than UA-cam maintains.
So, Americans want the political government to fix the country's many problems, but at the same time, Americans don't want the government in their (day-to-day) lives? Can't have it both ways.
I love your analogy of being like "Hi Germans, hi Italians" and then turning to the Brits and dropping all guards. It makes complete sense, and as someone who is English, I completely agree. It's the shared culture and understanding that is lacking with other countries - we understand each other far more and are more similar. The UK would be the same with Americans, and also the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the "inner core" of the Anglosphere (Canada, Aus, and NZ). The similarities of all these countries is astounding, and, in my opinion, is unique globally with the amount of countries (you do have many that are similar, like India/Bangladesh/Pakistan, or China/Taiwan, etc etc - but not so geographically dispersed or with so many sovereign nations). You find that the UK aligns far more in terms of policy with the US (and Australia to some extent) than it does even to the Rep of Ireland and the rest of the EU and Europe.
The extract shown featuring John Cleese (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) , Ronnie Barker, (Porridge, the Two Ronnies) and Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies) was from a classic longer sketch from the 1960s on the British Class system.
I'm not sure about language, you can get pidgin versions of languages that become languages in their own right, but I am pretty sure that there will still be accents and that they will keep changing. There is a whole new accent MLE, multi cultural London English which has developed in the last 40 years. Its the one you will hear British rappers and many footballers using. You hear young British people using American words or pronunciations but often in a way distinct to the American usage, But then thats always been the case, English is a magpie language and we will nick words from anyone. They will also come up with language that is quite new and would puzzle an American.
I saw a description of UK that it's basically just a mid-sized island that's been pretending to be a world super power for the last few centuries, fortunately no-one's caught on yet. In terms of homogenisation, I think in recent times the UK has become too American for Europe and too traditionally British for America. Although parts of our culture seem to entertain many Americans, there might be as many Americans obsessed with the royal family as we have. A few months ago, Prince William was voted the greatest world leader in an American poll. lol
I wouldn’t say we’ve become too American we have similarities yh but other then that not really we’re still very much European like many other countries there but I get what ur saying
This guy has completely ignored grammar schools - free selective state schools that give a private school quality education and so allow HUGE social mobility… it’s jot a good video in my mind for that reason.
I think the first few seconds of this video is all you need to watch. "We're kind of like a big brother, little brother thing." Sure, Connor. You're "big" because you have more people and embrace capitalism more than any other nation on the planet. Go you. The original video is an interesting, well thought-out and cleverly edited presentation. And I'll leave it at that. Thank you Connor, for bringing this to my attention. You sure react to a lot of stuff I'd not otherwise see. But you amplify the differences between our nations in almost every sentence you blurt out.
you're walking into Europe, with Britain introducing you to Germany etc., ya i got it! its because UK is more similar to the US, than it is with european countries. Can't wait to go back to red rock country, if any of yall know what state or area im referring to! 😉
27:42 I would say the opposite is true, new languages are emerging and will continue to emerge. They will not be completely different from the existing ones, but more of a pidgin type. Or do you think you will fully understand #Hinglish or #Singlish because you are a native English speaker? We are also now entering an age where a certain amount of synthetic languages will be created for communication by AI machines because human languages are not very efficient for them.
I have complicated feelings about this video. There are lots of points that are true in the broad brushstrokes but which fall apart as soon as you step outside the framing he’s given. (For transparency, I’m an upper-middle class person of upper class descent and that has definitely skewed my opportunities and perspectives.) I’ll take two points from near the end to explain what I mean. He says Americans are more rebellious and distrustful of authority compared to British people which is true… except that Americans are more conformist and cling more to the status quo and abstract structures of power. I’ve worked a lot with Americans, and this shows up all the time in US business culture. Decisions are top down and it’s incredibly hard to get people to speak up against the consensus viewpoint. British business decisions are more consultative and being an eccentric is seen as more of a positive thing. There are actual guides you can read to handling the conformity of American business culture as a British person. It’s a trip handling blended teams. Secondly, the US is not more innovative: it’s got more capital to put at risk. US companies are notoriously bad at innovation, even more than other countries (no company is good at innovation, for rational economic reasons, which is why knowledge transfer bodies are a thing). American companies tend to be much more conservative with novelty, but because they have more money to play with they will spend more on new projects. The difference is that a British company will spend less but on things that are more different to the status quo. The American one will spend more but on things that are more similar, variations on a theme.
Really good example of the comedy would have to be Red Dwarf. In the original UK show Dave Lister the main character is a useless, scruffy, lazy slob and no offence to the actor who played him 'Craig Charles' is not the most attractive guy. In the failed US pilot he was a 6 feet tall, good looking, smart talking, hero type totally missing the point of the character.
The population is so HIGH now that it’s competition plus plus so it’s a pipe dream for many many people now , not saying we have no incentive but it’s commonsense to be practical but still have that confidence to stride forward 🤗but I don’t see the world like the Americans and would not like to be I like the softer nature and be conserved until the barrier is broken on the side of caution I suppose meeting strangers , and it is true the class system does get in the way sometimes but that’s to do with not having a good education to go forward and we do have that with the system we have we are surrounded by culture it’s up to you to go out there and further educate yourself it never ends ,that’s up to the person to learn but it’s a battle the Class system reminds me of the Cast system in India but not so extreme , but it’s there in our faces 🤣but who cares best to get on with your chosen life style and ENJOY the achievements you’ve gained and to be HAPPY 🤷♀️
He is confusing/inter-changing Englishness and Britishness. Celts attitudes behaviours and class relations aren't the same as English folk. I think this may also explain the differences between Yanks (lorra English imported folk) and Canadians (more Celts) and between Ozzies (English) and NZers (more Celts) He needs to read more books and not rely on making youtube vids based on other youtube vids.... stay in school kids.
😮 US schools aren't apparently fit for purpose - unless you agree with my daughter that the "dumb American Gen Z" 'kids' are not real and all those YT videos asking them questions about the world and even their own country, results in "fun fodder" for the audience?! "3×3×3 = either 9, 21 or 34..." Or "four eggs to a dozen", and "America was established in 1901"...etc...😮🇺🇸🤔😢
Yeah, good viid rection however, I have to be a sort of Garmmar Nazi and point out that he opens with "separated from birth", nope, it's "separated AT birth" and I'm sure he says "swarms of Belgiums" and not Belgians which would then make sense! 😂😂😂
These sorts of comparison videos are nonsense. I am sure there will be a bunch of people in the comments saying "The thing about us Brits is..." That I have absolutely nothing in common with. I probably have more in common with you, Connor, than most of the "Us Brits" brigade.
British culture is based around the exploitation of common people by the establishment. That often takes the form of the aristocracy. Domination is defined by social rank. American culture is based around neighbour disputes. Domination is defined by might is right. However, America is increasingly becoming like Britain, a country of social ranks.
In the UK, we don't have a dream...because we are AWAKE !!
All men are created equal.....depending on your colour in America !!
We know it’s BS!
Here's one reason for the difference. In the US the Hays Code (1937-68 .. before the ratings system) encouraged a happy ending in movies and TV. Being huge entertainment consumers, generations of Americans were influenced by that. Hays also had firm rules and guidelines toward respecting religion, showing long kisses or couples in the sane bed, anti-government dialog, swearing, *white* slavery, sympathy for criminals (white hat, black hat) and use of the flag. So in addition to happy endings, entertainment also conveyed morality.
😢 "bloody American puritanical moralising rubbish..." I'm sooo glad I'm English and born and live here in Britain - for all of its faults, I wouldn't swap my life here for a life in the USA.😊❤🏴🇬🇧🖖
Brits are the kind of people who will see the Titanic being launched and hailed as 'Unsinkable', express their cynicism, and when it gets clobbered by the iceberg, say 'Told yer...'
And then say "you can't park that there mate!"
I picture brits as the kind of people who would sail past the sinking Titanic and yell Buswankers!
Were the kinda of ppl who would cheer it 😂
When i came to America my then father-in-law told me here in America you can do anything, he didn't mention to do that you have to work your bollocks off, and with my British work ethic in stilled in me that didnt work, I'm getting by but 23 years of living in America and I'm still no further than i was when i stepped off the plane
Tell your Misses lets take the kids to the UK and live like you are not a slave to the US shitty lifestyle. Pack your bags mate and get out.
"All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others" that's England as animal farm ❤ BUT.. also I think if you fall in America like your in a American football team and you keep losing every time all the people won't stop telling you, you failed and that's depressing, where is in England if you lose no one will make you feel bad because you did your best ❤I'm just saying as a west English person. "Gurt lush"
Definitely
@@weejackrussell 👍😊 yeah in America you have more expectations about you well as in England we don't care, as long if it's what you want t to do. No matter if you win or lose. Bless the UK 😭 no patreaonism here I'm so thankful lol 😆
🐴🇬🇧🐴 "I truly believe, the best of my fun, I owe it to horse and hound."🐴🏴🐴
I don't know who wrote that, originally,
(I used to, but with the passing years I forget names!) But it's the 'banner' across the top of the _weeklyly_ - every Thursday - magazine called
"The Horse and Hound"
(& _yes_ I used to buy it, I only stopped when cataracts formed so I could no longer see... post-op now, I'd like to read it again but my daughter/carer says she never sees it in the local shops... Truth be told, she rarely goes out early enough, so it's probably just sold out by the time she gets into 'town'!😢)
Ah well, c'est la vie?! 🤔🐴❤️🏴🇬🇧🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 I dunno
No or if either maybe it's an American thing
I am reminded of Flanders & Swann’s comic classic ‘A Song of Patriotic Prejudice’ when singing about foreigners’ deplorable attitudes to sport: ‘They practice beforehand/They cheer when they win’.
I also remember the prologue to the film ‘Patton’ when George C Scott delivers what I understood to be a close copy of an actual address by the General in which he mentions inter alia that he wouldn’t give a (something or other) for ‘someone who lost - and laughed’.
Class-wise, I can recommend a film called 'The Admirable Crichton' (by the inventor of Peter Pan, strangely enough). It's quite a nice commentary.
That is funnily random.
❤ Kenneth More ? That's a good film...
I haven't seen it for years, but bet it's available here on YT, like a lot of his old films...❤🏴🤔🇬🇧🖖
There is still a class system in the UK but it is less important than say fifty or sixty years ago. Basically Lower class/working class, middle class and upper class. Contrary to the video I think the lower and upper classes rub along quite nicely together it is the middle classes that tend to be the fly in the ointment both resenting the upper class and feeling superior to the working class.
I think the class system of old is largely gone now. Or at least, it's more possible to move about a bit.
Except for "entitled" or "inherited" class.
Why does nobody use those terms? Because it makes it too obvious, maybe?
I know that "all men are created equal" has been one part of the constitution in USA that is truly difficult for the rest of the world to agree with - the caveat in this being that people without the "right" kind of skin in the USA have not, and are still not, in many communities, considered equal at all. That has always been bone of contention for other cultures who feel that egality does not change according to one's skin colour - and hearing/seeing all the racism that is confirmed by UA-cam has been a shock to millions of people. And also, a country where women's rights are in the hands of 'old, white guys', is a horrifying dystopia the 21st Century. So I've never really considered that the people in the USA and those in GB have as much of a bond as UA-cam tries to push? I'm not, for a moment, saying we don't/can't have good relations with each other: simply that our cultural differences are far wider than UA-cam maintains.
It wasn't fake Connor. Our weather just is really shit sometimes.
So, Americans want the political government to fix the country's many problems, but at the same time, Americans don't want the government in their (day-to-day) lives?
Can't have it both ways.
I love your analogy of being like "Hi Germans, hi Italians" and then turning to the Brits and dropping all guards. It makes complete sense, and as someone who is English, I completely agree. It's the shared culture and understanding that is lacking with other countries - we understand each other far more and are more similar. The UK would be the same with Americans, and also the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the "inner core" of the Anglosphere (Canada, Aus, and NZ). The similarities of all these countries is astounding, and, in my opinion, is unique globally with the amount of countries (you do have many that are similar, like India/Bangladesh/Pakistan, or China/Taiwan, etc etc - but not so geographically dispersed or with so many sovereign nations). You find that the UK aligns far more in terms of policy with the US (and Australia to some extent) than it does even to the Rep of Ireland and the rest of the EU and Europe.
Pretty much spot on . 😊
The extract shown featuring John Cleese (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) , Ronnie Barker, (Porridge, the Two Ronnies) and Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies) was from a classic longer sketch from the 1960s on the British Class system.
That bird getting hit by the fish was youtubers 'kinging it"
They actually make great funny videos travelling the UK 👌
I'm not sure about language, you can get pidgin versions of languages that become languages in their own right, but I am pretty sure that there will still be accents and that they will keep changing. There is a whole new accent MLE, multi cultural London English which has developed in the last 40 years. Its the one you will hear British rappers and many footballers using. You hear young British people using American words or pronunciations but often in a way distinct to the American usage, But then thats always been the case, English is a magpie language and we will nick words from anyone. They will also come up with language that is quite new and would puzzle an American.
A lot of people confuse British politeness with weakness.
I agree with you. In fact, it can prove to be the exact opposite of weakness.
I saw a description of UK that it's basically just a mid-sized island that's been pretending to be a world super power for the last few centuries, fortunately no-one's caught on yet.
In terms of homogenisation, I think in recent times the UK has become too American for Europe and too traditionally British for America. Although parts of our culture seem to entertain many Americans, there might be as many Americans obsessed with the royal family as we have. A few months ago, Prince William was voted the greatest world leader in an American poll. lol
I wouldn’t say we’ve become too American we have similarities yh but other then that not really we’re still very much European like many other countries there but I get what ur saying
When the lion roars the Eagle soars, father & son like country's 👍
This guy has completely ignored grammar schools - free selective state schools that give a private school quality education and so allow HUGE social mobility… it’s jot a good video in my mind for that reason.
You live near a place called Enfield. Guess what, so did I! Did not agree with his 'class war' comments, but there you are. Love from the UK
I think the first few seconds of this video is all you need to watch.
"We're kind of like a big brother, little brother thing."
Sure, Connor. You're "big" because you have more people and embrace capitalism more than any other nation on the planet. Go you.
The original video is an interesting, well thought-out and cleverly edited presentation. And I'll leave it at that.
Thank you Connor, for bringing this to my attention. You sure react to a lot of stuff I'd not otherwise see.
But you amplify the differences between our nations in almost every sentence you blurt out.
you're walking into Europe, with Britain introducing you to Germany etc., ya i got it! its because UK is more similar to the US, than it is with european countries.
Can't wait to go back to red rock country, if any of yall know what state or area im referring to! 😉
27:42 I would say the opposite is true, new languages are emerging and will continue to emerge. They will not be completely different from the existing ones, but more of a pidgin type. Or do you think you will fully understand #Hinglish or #Singlish because you are a native English speaker? We are also now entering an age where a certain amount of synthetic languages will be created for communication by AI machines because human languages are not very efficient for them.
I have complicated feelings about this video. There are lots of points that are true in the broad brushstrokes but which fall apart as soon as you step outside the framing he’s given. (For transparency, I’m an upper-middle class person of upper class descent and that has definitely skewed my opportunities and perspectives.)
I’ll take two points from near the end to explain what I mean. He says Americans are more rebellious and distrustful of authority compared to British people which is true… except that Americans are more conformist and cling more to the status quo and abstract structures of power. I’ve worked a lot with Americans, and this shows up all the time in US business culture. Decisions are top down and it’s incredibly hard to get people to speak up against the consensus viewpoint. British business decisions are more consultative and being an eccentric is seen as more of a positive thing. There are actual guides you can read to handling the conformity of American business culture as a British person. It’s a trip handling blended teams.
Secondly, the US is not more innovative: it’s got more capital to put at risk. US companies are notoriously bad at innovation, even more than other countries (no company is good at innovation, for rational economic reasons, which is why knowledge transfer bodies are a thing). American companies tend to be much more conservative with novelty, but because they have more money to play with they will spend more on new projects. The difference is that a British company will spend less but on things that are more different to the status quo. The American one will spend more but on things that are more similar, variations on a theme.
We are all fighting the same battles just different locations
Really good example of the comedy would have to be Red Dwarf. In the original UK show Dave Lister the main character is a useless, scruffy, lazy slob and no offence to the actor who played him 'Craig Charles' is not the most attractive guy. In the failed US pilot he was a 6 feet tall, good looking, smart talking, hero type totally missing the point of the character.
😂😂 "Pederrr".😂👍
Both the Americans and the Brit's see "happiness" through materialism. Which is why so many rich people are ... unhappy!
The population is so HIGH now that it’s competition plus plus so it’s a pipe dream for many many people now , not saying we have no incentive but it’s commonsense to be practical but still have that confidence
to stride forward 🤗but I don’t see the world like the Americans and would not like to be I like the softer nature and be conserved until the barrier is broken on the side of caution I suppose meeting strangers , and it is true the class system does get in the way sometimes but that’s to do with not having a good education to go forward and we do have that with the system we have we are surrounded by culture it’s up to you to go out there and further educate yourself it never ends ,that’s up to the person to learn but it’s a battle the Class system reminds me of the Cast system in India but not so extreme , but it’s there in our faces 🤣but who cares best to get on with your chosen life style and ENJOY the achievements you’ve gained and to be HAPPY 🤷♀️
Wow you’re so complex I love how you see the world
He is confusing/inter-changing Englishness and Britishness. Celts attitudes behaviours and class relations aren't the same as English folk. I think this may also explain the differences between Yanks (lorra English imported folk) and Canadians (more Celts) and between Ozzies (English) and NZers (more Celts)
He needs to read more books and not rely on making youtube vids based on other youtube vids.... stay in school kids.
😮 US schools aren't apparently fit for purpose - unless you agree with my daughter that the "dumb American Gen Z" 'kids' are not real and all those YT videos asking them questions about the world and even their own country, results in "fun fodder" for the audience?!
"3×3×3 = either 9, 21 or 34..." Or
"four eggs to a dozen", and "America was established in 1901"...etc...😮🇺🇸🤔😢
Yeah, good viid rection however, I have to be a sort of Garmmar Nazi and point out that he opens with "separated from birth", nope, it's "separated AT birth" and I'm sure he says "swarms of Belgiums" and not Belgians which would then make sense! 😂😂😂
All men are created equal isn't even true on a genetic level- some people are naturally mor intelligent, healthier and so on.
These sorts of comparison videos are nonsense. I am sure there will be a bunch of people in the comments saying "The thing about us Brits is..." That I have absolutely nothing in common with.
I probably have more in common with you, Connor, than most of the "Us Brits" brigade.
American is the ginger stepchild of the family.
Every UK 90s hits 😂❤
ua-cam.com/video/nAnV2tgTKKY/v-deo.htmlsi=wkI0oz4EDIrZoKvF
Saw James Acaster and turned it off
No you didn't. You wrote that stupid comment.
turn yourself off
@user-dk2tq4ny4b brilliant ..you are funnier than him, well done you 👏
No the world is not becoming like America and other country's are not changing there couture to be Americans.
Your so sweet! 😂
Brits never dominated culturaly THE WORLD. Not even their closest neighbours in front there on the continent ;D
British culture is based around the exploitation of common people by the establishment. That often takes the form of the aristocracy. Domination is defined by social rank. American culture is based around neighbour disputes. Domination is defined by might is right. However, America is increasingly becoming like Britain, a country of social ranks.