What AMERICANS Think Of The UK And The British? | Americans React | Loners
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A lot has changed in the UK since the 70s. The decline of the heavy industry, unemployment, the Thatcher era with the Falkland war, ect. ect. Entering the EU, the end of the Northern Ireland troubles, exiting the EU. The only thing that didn't change was the Queen, really. Well, until last year.
It's _not_ "ect" ... It's 'etc' (Latin), and short for 'et cetera' (... 'and so on')
The fact many Americans dont know the difference between English and British says it all.
Amsterdam is not a country,it's a city in Netherlands
Personally i love the Royal family. All in my family are the same. No Royal family no England. Foreign people forget the monarch is the core of our unwritten constitution. Without it we would be just another corrupt republic. Your country is what 200 years old. Do you think it will last another 200?
Agreed, Amsterdam is a lovely city that I have been to on many occasions. It is a bit like London in the UK, the city defines the county.. it shouldn’t.
He knows Amsterdam is a city, but you don't know how to write the country's name! 🤷♂️
"Exit Europe": tell me you're US american without telling me you're US american...
I've seen videos like his before and often foreigners say "London" because many go to London and don't actually venture far outside the city which is really odd because its not a huge country and it's so easy to get around. obviously if your only there for a few days I understand that.. but London is just a big city like any other. there is so much more to see. 3 other entire countries!
I must admit in my youth I had little regard for our royal family, whereas now I view them with great respect and fondness. I think they are huge assets, with so much fascinating history linked to them, and I like that we establish long term familiarity with our Heads Of State.
To me they are irreplaceable, and I bear no resentment whatsoever for the £1:29 per year that I contribute to them.
They certainly pull in more money that they spend. They also pick up the slack from what the government has not got time to do, watched a documentary on that. They do an enormous amount of paper work for the government, let alone the charity work and help that Charles etc has done.. truly a public servant and that how Charles and others want to be seen.
The problem is the royal family has too much ‘power’ and are exempt from many laws and regulations.
@@tinytank6642True, to an extent, as they are exempt from some laws, such as needing a license to drive, and I believe the ruling monarch is also immune from criminal charge.
However, politically they remain neutral, and their ‘powers’ are only symbolic and ceremonial.
@@miamonan9627 The Royal Family, multiple times, have been discovered to lobby exemptions for laws. Remember when it was discovered that the New Labour government under Blair were privately angered by Prince Charles obsession with being against GMOs? Or when Charles wrote a letter to Blair asking him to reconsider the fox hunting ban?
They aren’t just exempt from driving licenses, they are exempt from many taxes, and are even exempt from equality legislation that eliminate race and sex discrimination. This is unfair.
These exemptions should be rolled back and they should be legally mandated to pay taxes.
The Monarch right now has absolute power, at anytime, he could tell parliament to piss off. He could decide to say no to laws. I don’t care whether or not he used them. He shouldn’t have those powers in the first place.
England started Rock and Roll? I can't help thinking that the likes of Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry etc would disagree!
Rock music, maybe. Heavy metal, yes. Rock and roll? Probably not.
They did say Modern R+R ie Metal etc.
Learning a new language Jesus wept seriously 😂
Yea it was so tough leaving Europe, a lot of hard work moving an island 😅
There is a few who want to abolish the Monarchy but majority are still Monarchists (including me). I look at republics and the alternative doesn't look appealing: Trump, Macron, Putin, Berlusconi, George Bush....
What’s your point?
They asked how we view the Monarchy. Most people are indifferent and are happy with the existing way. The people in our country who are republican can't agree on what sort of presidential system we should have if we abolished the Monarchy.
People aren't die hard monarchists but they don't mind the status quo and are put off by how dysfunctional republican systems are around the world.
In this day I'm age you wouldn't pick a constitutional Monarchy as a form of government, but for 1000 years by and large it has served the UK and commonwealth well
@@minty258 But I don’t understand why you listed out political figures. Are you saying we need a sort of powerful head of state to ensure politicians don’t fuck up our country?
Well, sorry to break the news to you, our politicians fuck up our country all the time. A monarchy doesn’t do anything to combat this. They democratically can’t, so this isn’t a good point.
I’m not a Republican, it’s too idealist. But instead I believe we need a written, codified constitution to democratise the monarchy and to get rid of royal assent, get rid of exceptions for the royal family and to make the nation secular. I do not support the complete abolishment of the monarchy.
I think Lynda is a lot more British than she realises, she would fit right in with her sarcasm and irony. I wonder if Brian has any Welsh ancestry, as he seems to smile every time sheep appear in the videos.😂
Interesting fact.
The British colonies gave Americans the accent they have today.
It's transatlantic.
The so-called standard accent was the standard transatlantic accent between America and Britain.
I’m a royalist and think they’re good for the country and they bring billions of pounds in to the country because people want to hopefully get a glimpse of them. There are people who don’t want them and want a republican government but that would be the worst option personally we would lose our identity. Times have changed here in the U.K. not always for the better and we are going through an election at the moment too. The bad teeth thing is rubbish!! Like any country some people have bad teeth and a lot don’t. Things are rough in the U.K. at the moment but with a new government hopefully things will change and improve.
I'm pretty sure rock & roll started in the US in the 1950s with Bill Haley
Yeah But we did start heavy metal
@@MrGremlin69 And introduced the US to its own black music.
As a child in the 60s and 70s growing up in England, the memory that stands out most was the miners strikes.
There were power outages several times a day pretty much everyday and in the dead of winter you would be sitting around
by candle light waiting just talking (remember that?). At the time it was very annoying and seemed like it was to be the
norm forever. Fortunately, things got back to normal on the 8th of March when the miners returned to work and the power crisis ended.
I see there are currently two 195 episodes in your video catalog. Please, could you fix this, it's burning my eyes and messing with my brain. Thank you very much in advance!
Because if we're to abolish the Monarchy, our new head of state would become an elected head with all the pitfalls we see in other republics around the world face. A presidential system becomes not just political but personality based. One of the benefits of our system is our leader is solely focused on representing the nation, which in recent history, they have largely upheld. What you're suggesting is reforming rather than abolishing and it's fair comments.
You wouldn't invent our system in today's world but we have what we got and I believe, as archaic as our system is we've avoided the excesses you see in other systems.
And why I reference individuals, it's the warning of what could happen. I'm sure I don't need to go into trump or putin and what they've done during their periods. Berlusconi held his infamous bunga bunga parties with underage girls and yet Italians still voted him in.
I personally don't believe a prime minister/ president system would end well for our country
My generation (gen X 1976) we are a fairly Americanized generation growing up on tv like the Cosby show, starsky and hutch, dukes of hazard, night rider but our country was still very very British, old ladies spoke like the queen and everyone was very proper. my parents grew up through the second world war and the blitz after being evacuated from Europe because we are gypsy, their parents were literally Victorians that saw the titanic. Childhood was strict, dad was in the army ,we were based in germany, Nairobi/Kenya africa , brother born in Africa . I should be a royalist through upbringing but no, I'm awake, Epstein didn't kill himself, hate the BBC and that our government got hijacked by the EU. Loved my country but wouldn't fight for it now. I'm one of many brits selling up and getting out before it becomes the middle west. The English dream is over , no more retiring to quaint villages and vintage cars and thatched roofed cottages where you can leave doors unlocked because you knew all your neighbours, nobody was a threat, even our criminals had a code of conduct (no innocents,women or children) it's a different world out there now, only thing to hold on for is the NHS now I'm getting old but that will change soon if people keep flooding here and we will be paying medical insurance so I'm probably headed for Bulgaria, Croatia to retire off grid rather than let what WAS England bleed me dry.👍
User name says it all.
Actually, it is / was ' _Knight_ Rider' - starring David Hasselhoff as:
'Michael Knight' 😊🇺🇲😏❤🌝🖖
_"The English dream is over , no more retiring to quaint villages and vintage cars and thatched roofed cottages where you can leave doors unlocked because you knew all your neighbours"_ I live in a place like that - there are still plenty. Except maybe the 'vintage cars' - we just can't afford brand new, like the city folk.
I'm an English Republican. I don't dislike them personally. I like Kate a lot. It's the institution and the royal advisors I dislike.
Rock 'n roll was an American black music genre long before the Beatles. The UK didn't invent rock 'n roll.
The Royal family has a small section of republican's and a small section of loyalists. Most people are in the middle. The latest polls suggest something like 70% like the Royal family but this changes. The Queen had very high approval ratings for many years of her 70 year reign. She was like your wise grandmother to many Brits. That's why people waited in line for over 15 hours to see her laying in state after she passed.
I'm sure there were people in Ireland that celebrated her death but you've got to know the long unfortunate bloody history of Ireland and the UK to get why.
English are a minority in London and Birmingham, many Northern towns have large Muslim populations and the UK is forecasted to be an Islamic country by 2045
Leave now then, no wait your probably be deceased any way.
And you voted for Brexit! 👍🏻🤣
Not if I've got anything to do with it.
Jesus fucking Christ.
People's opinions of the Royal family is a mixed bag; for every person who is a staunch monarchist, there's another who hates them and just as many as both who just don't give a crap. The Royals went through a particularly low point around the time of the death of Princess Di when the sentiment was quite strongly anti-royalist. Prince Andrew divorcing Sarah Ferguson, Prince Harry dressing as a Nazi, Prince Philip's casual racism, Prince Andrew's association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Charles' affair with Camilla have all been notable low points and how much Queen Liz had a role in contributing to things or holding it together is a matter of opinion. The TV drama you were thinking of was probably The Crown, which I haven't watched because I don't care what a bunch of priveliged figure-heads do.
The Crown was not a documentary - it was 'entertainment'. Sadly people outside the UK don't understand that - see above.